Trump's Unity Means HE Rules, We Obey

 From The BBC: Five takeaways from Trump's convention speech.

Still, he could not resist ad-libbed lines criticising top Democrats and the leadership of the United Auto Workers, one of the country's largest unions. In addition to his criticism of President Biden, he called Nancy Pelosi - the former House speaker - "crazy".

Referring to the legal cases against him, he said: "They’ve got to stop that because they’re destroying our country."

Trump also demanded that "the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponising the justice system".

From The Washington Post: The Trump-Vance ticket aligns the GOP with Europe’s far right.

...Fast forward to the present: Trump, the Republican standard-bearer, was greeted on the convention floor in Milwaukee with placards calling for “Mass Deportations,” while both he and Vance stoked hysteria about a surge in migration being the root cause of spikes in crime, rises in housing prices and inflation. (None of these claims are borne out by evidence.)

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The Trump-Vance ticket seems to cement this transformation. Vance, in particular, has leaned into championing an overt “blood and soil” nationalism. In his Wednesday speech, he scoffed at the lofty, universalist ideals that often accompany paeans to American patriotism, and spoke instead of the cemetery in eastern Kentucky where his forebears are buried.

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Their proto-fascist brand of nationalism, Winock explained, would “subordinate everything to … the nation-state: to its force, its power, and its greatness.” And its appeal hinged on the promise of “a resurrection: the restoration of state authority, the strengthening of the army, the protection of the old ways, the dissolution of divisive forces.” But Winock adds, such politics only gave momentum to, “in varying dosages, xenophobia, antisemitism and anti-parliamentarianism” — the latter, from our 21st century perspective, can be understood as a hostility to the constitutional functioning of democracy.

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This week, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov cheered Vance’s addition to the ticket. “We can only welcome that because that’s what we need — to stop pumping Ukraine full of weapons, and then the war will end,” Lavrov said.

Yes, the Russians love Trump and Trump loves the Russians. It is not America First, it is A,erica following Russia. 

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