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but Trump is a socialist. Look at the size/growth of the government he's overseeing
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/trump-dividends-stock-buybacks-defense-companies.html
He understands better than you how dependent US wealth and power is upon US military and its power projection.
It is US hegemony that supports the petrodollar and the petrodollar extraordinary privilege that enables $37 Trillion debt and five decades of massive trade and fiscal deficits.
Without global military dominance US hegemony and wealth collapses.
My point remains that while Trump talks big on individual rights in reality he tramples on them especially where the hegemony upon which US wealth is built is concerned.
He is literally engaging in State Capitalism to respond to Chinas State Capitalism.
Neither US or China are Communist- China is State Capitalist and US is increasingly moving toward State Capitalism too under Trump.
State Capitalism is what Trump is implementing lately...and gunboat diplomacy.
He is copying Chinas State Capitalism to try and respond to the challenge Chinas State Capitalism poses to US hegemony.
US military are crippled for at least a decade by their loss of supply of refined rare earths crucial to the production of most modern high tech military equipment.
China won the trade war and its domination of multiple supply chains has multiple economic, military and power projection implications.
The kidnapping of Venezuela president is partly aimed at preserving the appearance of military competence and capacity where in reality it is severely eroded.
The war in Ukraine continues to deplete US war materiel supplies to dangerously low levels and they cannot be rebuilt without Chinas resumption of supply or an incredibly expensive decades long process of building alternative supplies and substitutes.
Hitler was not even a fascist...
Anyway Trump is less fascist than Bernie Sanders, since fascists were socialists.