To understand the future sainthood of Donald J Trump, just look at George W Bush

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@Brian_Shock

Der Gropenfuhrer has not made me appreciate how comparatively less evil others were, but rather how comparatively imperfect others were.

Militarism and imperialism are bipartisan efforts. From the perspective of the global south, there is very little difference between liberal and conservative Presidents. If anything, the liberals tend to be slightly worse.

Noam Chomsky - The Crimes of U.S. Presidents

Trump is not an aberration from American history; he is the natural consequence of it. The roots of this go all the way back to the 3/5ths Compromise.

@Wanderfound

Racism is certainly not unique to the USA; America inherited the white supremacist tradition from the European imperialists. But while the Caribbean slave revolts eventually forced the Europeans to abandon slavery, the more successful suppression of resistance on the US mainland allowed it to persist.

Then, of course, the Slaver’s Revolt. That was a chance to really fix the problem, but it was thrown away in 1877. The power of the slavers rebuilds, transforms into a more modern proto-fascism via the KKK, and then gets locked into place in 1919:

youtube.com/watch?v=S4Pi2nYcYNw

That gets us to the suppression of US socialism and the establishment of the nationwide security state. The US almost went full fascist in the 1930’s, but Pearl Harbour and Roosevelt’s scheming put a stop to that.

After the war, Cold War competition forced a few decades of Bismarckian social concessions. The end of the Cold War dropped that limitation, and it’s been brewing towards the current catastrophe ever since.