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Trump’s counter-terror cuts will harm fight against far right, experts warn
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That’s because Donald Trump is a far right extremist.
trump really has no ideology beyond self-aggrandizement, gross displays of power and pursuing the path of least resistance (appealing to the most stupid). thats it. that the whole ballgame.
this left/right narrative fails to accurately describe this putrid creature.
Trump acts like a far right extremist, therefore, Trump is a far right extremist.
If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck…
puh-leeze. He ran as a Republican for a reason. He needs to make use of the far-right and their stupid grievances, yes, but he also has most of the very same grievances.
He was outraged over Obama being in office. He was king of the birthers. He was outraged over the monuments to the terrorist traitors in the Confederacy being take down. He still is - he vows to put them back.
Let's not pretend he has truly no ideology. He definitely has one. It's an ideology centered around rich white cishet male (nominally xtian) privilege. And even though he was raised in the North, he has a distinctly Southern view about what America should be about.
He was a Democrat for a long time before switching sides. He doesn't care about ANYTHING other than himself and maaaaaaybe hurting brown people. Taking care of other rich people serves him. Taking care of Christians serves him, because he knows they can get him reelected. Lowering taxes serves him, and he doesn't care who it hurts.
The only thing he has been consistent about, even when he was a Democrat, is hurting brown people. Everything else is an act to get people to do things that help him.