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IPFS News Link • Trump Administration

Trump's Ties to the Past and the Resurrection of the Left

• http://www.newsbud.com, Dr James Petras

Contrary to occasional references to non-intervention in overseas wars, Trump has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors.

While neoconservatives and liberals have raised a hue and cry about Trump's ties to Russia, his 'heresies' over NATO and his overtures to peace in the Middle East, in practice, he has discarded his market humanitarian' imperialism and engaged in the same bellicose policies of his Democratic Party presidential rival, Hillary Clinton.

Because he lacks the slick 'demagogy' of former-President Obama, and does not slather his actions with cheap appeals to 'identity' politics, Trump's crude, abrasive pronouncements drive young demonstrators into the streets in mass actions. These demonstrations are not-so-discretely supported by Trump's major opponents among the Wall Street bankers, speculators and mass media moguls. In other words, President Trump is an icon-embracer and follower, not a 'revolutionary' or even 'change agent'.


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