Billionaires, deniers, far-right fanatics, bully politicians, people with pending causes. The team that the next American president is recruiting seems like something out of an episode of The Simpsons
We have already seen this film many times, it is a classic Hollywood plot: the protagonist, who is usually an outlaw with a shady past, wants to rob the central bank or a large casino, take revenge on a gangster or undertake a suicide mission. To do this, he recruits a gang with the best (the worst) of each house, a handful of amoral and unreliable guys, each one with a specialty: one handles explosives, another knows how to open safes, that one hacks security systems, that other He is the king of camouflage… He contacts them one by one, convincing them in exchange for a large reward, until he gathers the “wild group” he needs.
More or less this is how Donald Trump’s casting for his next government is going: he has taken a walk through the underworld (upper) of capitalism and the extreme right to recruit a group of scoundrels with whom to assault the United States, and at the same time splash to the rest of the planet: billionaires, deniers, far-right fanatics, hard-nosed politicians, people with pending causes. As I say, the best of each house, without any pretense.
If they told you this a few years ago you wouldn’t believe it, it seems like a team straight out of an episode of The Simpsons: a far-right debater (and accused of abuse of a minor) as attorney general, a Fox presenter (and also accused of sexual assault) at the head of the Pentagon, an anti-vaccine wizard as Secretary of Health, an oil executive and climate denier in the Department of Energy, a xenophobe for immigration policy, a pro-Zionist who accuses the UN of anti-Semitic will be ambassador to the UN, and of course Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and with interests in contracts and public regulations, at the head of a “Government Efficiency” office that he will co-direct with another millionaire.
What a panda, huh. And they all share something, in addition to extremism, controversies and a healthy current account: they are loyal to Trump, they will go with him to the end, whatever the mission. A Trump who will control all powers: the executive, the legislative with the two chambers and the judiciary with a Supreme Court with a conservative majority. We would say that very bad thing about “enjoy what you voted”, if it weren’t for the fact that those of us who haven’t voted are also going to “enjoy” it.
The joke is precisely that: that they voted for Trump, he came out of the polls. His electorate buys these appointments from him, just as they have bought his campaign nonsense, his insane proposals, or the memory of his first term. That oft-repeated saying that if he went out to Fifth Avenue to shoot people, people would still vote for him, has become old. Now they would continue to vote for him if, in addition to shooting innocent people, he tortured them for a while before dying.
Trump is not the incarnation of evil, but of malism, the brilliant term coined by Mauro Entrialgo in his book of the same titlewhich I highly recommend. Entrialgo, who is a master of naming political (“regres”, as opposed to progressives, and “mystery Nazis” are other of his findings), defines malism as that “propagandistic mechanism that consists of the public display of traditionally reprehensible actions or desires with the aim of obtaining a benefit.” social, electoral or commercial.” It is practiced by politicians but also by companies, brands and cultural products. Presenting yourself as a bad guy gets votes, audience and sales, his book is full of examples. Here we have the Ayuso/Miguel Ángel Rodríguez couple, a successful example of political macarrism.
Inevitable to remember our Breakdown Witchprecursor of all these malistas, shouting “Long live evil, long live capital”, and always adding with laughter: “how bad, but how bad I am”. Same thing Trump. Long live evil, and above all long live capital, these far-right punks are always millionaires and representatives of business interests.
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