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14 sats \ 4 replies \ @rblb 8 Jan \ parent \ on: Defining Donald Trump: No, He's Not a Fascist (FT, Simon Kuper) Politics_And_Law

Everyone in the western politics is a bit socialist tbh, but not at the level of a commie or a fascist IMO.

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5 sats \ 3 replies \ @rblb 8 Jan

The size of the government is not a good indicator, the question is if his politics point toward the individual or the collective, and I'd say trump is 70% individual

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 8 Jan

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.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @rblb 8 Jan

I am sure he does, I am not even american.

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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 8 Jan

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.

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