Trump governed like a milquetoast Republican at the end of the day though, despite the insane rhetoric which made his brand, the liberal reaction to his ramblings. IMO one of the most credentialed American socialists Adolph Reed Jr. pinned Obama perfectly back in 1996:
“In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”
I get it though…not that Obama was super progressive, but he’s a far cry from trump.
Trump is basically the GOP’s Obama because he has this amped up brand abstracted from the party establishment.
Doesn’t work for me, I wish Obama was even half as much a socialist as Trump is an authoritarian
Trump governed like a milquetoast Republican at the end of the day though, despite the insane rhetoric which made his brand, the liberal reaction to his ramblings. IMO one of the most credentialed American socialists Adolph Reed Jr. pinned Obama perfectly back in 1996:
“In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”