I think I’ll dissect further the issues at hand, vis-a-vis our President.
The thing about Trump, I’ve noticed, is this:
People really don’t like him. I mean, really.
It’s a problem of style, and content, and as usual, the other factors of race and age. But really, very, very few people have taken to him on a deep level since his election. Let’s figure out why.
This one is going to be more academic than emotional, for a change of pace.
Issue 1- Trump is a baby boomer.
Baby boomers… have a hard time relating to others. They just do. They don’t get others’ points of view, even when they try.
They just don’t get it. As a generation they’re sheltered and narcissistic, and until now, they’ve had the clout to avoid being challenged by others over their character defects. So, they’ve been able to escape the trials of correcting their own wrongs, and atoning for their mistakes.
Trump seems like the quintessential boomer stereotype come to life. Arrogant and sheltered, he has gleefully ignored everyone else in his pursuit of his own personal satisfaction. But, it goes beyond that.
Boomers do not understand the Internet. They don’t understand it’s importance. They don’t get what it’s doing and why, and why people have taken to it as they have.
I think I know why Trump failed to respect his supporters. It’s because their base is the Internet, and since he likely doesn’t value the Internet much, himself, he doesn’t understand or appreciate it as he should.
I think that to Trump, Breitbart.com is a business, or something. And the same with other sites that elected him, like Amren and Vdare and the rest.
And yes, I know about Trump’s twitter. And I hold that up as evidence for this. He obviously doesn’t get or care how he comes off on Twitter (assuming that it actually is him writing those tweets, natch). Obama, being younger, knew the Internet and it’s audience in a way that Trump can’t possibly grok, it seems.
To be blunt, I think that Trump is too old. He doesn’t really get Breitbart or it’s importance, or why it’s necessary for them to support him, or how to actually reach it’s readers, which is telling since he has it’s former editors literally working for him. The net to Trump is probably some strange, foreign land, filled with incomprehensible people who can’t possibly mean what they say.
Issue 2 – Trump is too rich.
The super rich really do not have any idea of what life is like for others. They are, like boomers, sheltered as hell, and cocooned in their own little bubbles.
Trump really does not seem to understand on any level that much of his behavior and attitudes are deeply inappropriate, most especially concerning his own base.
Immigration to the Trumps is a non-issue. They are not affected by it, personally, and likely have never known anyone that has been. Out of sight, out of mind.
And this likely is why Trump is so focused on “infrastructure” projects and such. Trump, as a real estate mogul from NYC, probably assumes that everyone wants to live in Manhattan, like him! So, more infrastructure, for everybody!
And this explains why Trump is so keen on keeping his peers- i.e. his fellow billionaires, happy. Because that’s who he is. And why he doesn’t see income inequality as an issue, at all.
And Trump’s attitude is of course just supremely grating to his base. He can’t help but come off as a spoiled, smarmy, pompous little brat, because that’s just who he is. And that’s who Ivanka is, too. And the Kushners. And the rest of them.
It’s in their blood, and it will come out as naturally as any other ingrained part of them, similarly to how Obama always carried the air of “Affirmative Action hire” around with him throughout his Presidency. Because at the end of the day, that’s just a part of who he is.
What this means is that the Trumps will probably never be truly likable to anyone outside the 1% milieu. I’m sure that the Clintons and Bushes and Rockefellers like them just fine, of course, but to the general public? Nope.
Obama, for all of his many, many flaws, at least had an appeal to him that transcended class. The Trumps will never have this, and it shows.
Issue 3 – Trump is a salesman in an age when people are really starting to despise salesmen.
Nobody likes salespeople, especially now.
They’re the problem with this country- they create nothing, themselves, and make a living pushing our suicidal “consumer” economy into overdrive. Spend, spend, spend, everyone! Take out those loans! Mortgage your house! Max out your credit cards! Buy that cheap, plastic junk from the Chinese!
People really don’t much like that stuff, anymore. And Trump’s whole thing is that he’s the consummate salesman, who makes a living screwing everyone else over. “The Art of the Deal” and all that.
But, that’s not the world here, anymore. We don’t want that stuff these days. We don’t want, or need, a “dealmaker”. People are starting to hate dealmakers. We want someone that can actually create something themselves, as opposed to someone who just sells the stuff made by others.
Trump is emblematic of the dumb, shortsighted decisions that the oligarchs have made in regards to our economy and culture.
Trump and those like him are the problem.
Issue 4 – Trump is either too white or nowhere near white enough.
The left does not like white people, and they hate white men especially. Because they’re different, a global minority, and different is bad, and them being a minority means that systemic prejudice against them is okay.
Trump will never appeal to the left for that reason. His election, coming on the heels of Obama, is a slap in the face of the left because Trump is a white male, and the next President wasn’t supposed to be.
To the right, Trump is much, much too Jewish, both in action and in family.
Simply put, Trump acts like a Jew, not an Aryan. No matter how he looks, he acts foreign.
The Kushners and Ivanka are a massive, massive problem as far as Trump’s base goes. Their loyalty is obviously to Israel, not to this nation, and they are apparently controlling our foreign policy, now, for some reason that nobody understands at all, except for the fact that they’re Jews, which apparently means that their opinions are more important than those of the hundred million plus that make up Trump’s supposed base.
That is treason, pure and simple. And it will not stand and cannot continue.
The oligarchs’ love affair with Israel must come to an end, and the sooner the better. It’s creating tremendous and public instability, here. It must end.
And it will.
Issue 5 – Trump is running the Presidency like a business.
The thing about that is, is that nobody, and I mean nobody wants the government run like a business.
IDK who told Trump this, or IDK, maybe he came up with the idea himself, but that approach to everything is so very 1980’s that it just creates cognitive dissonance to see it happening, today.
Business- and most especially, big business, is not associated with good things. And conservatives really hate big business. More than anyone, I think. More than socialists, I think.
Big business to the conservative base means long hours and little pay. It means picking up the slack for your Affirmative Action co-workers. It means having your job and future outsourced to India. It means bad things; incompetent and domineering managers, ineffectual bosses, lack of opportunity, stagnant wages and greedy CEOs, bubble markets and thieving accountants, and many other terrible things.
People do not like big business in this country. Not even a little. And Trump’s base most especially.
Trump’s turning of the White House into an extension of his business empire is extremely, extremely galling to his supporters. I can’t emphasize this point enough.
Conservatives really do not like big business in this country, and to see it mixed with politics in such a way is almost like the manifestation of their worst nightmares.
So.
All of these points considered… I don’t know what to think.
TBH, it seems hopeless. Like, even more than it used to.
Que cera, cera.
I still believe that the oligarchy is doomed.