Chinese Communist Party
1921 - 2021
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Trump should be understood as the opportunistic representative of a tacit alliance of the working-class and some industrial sectors of the USA, hit hardest by the unfair competition of globalisation. His politics were, in many respects, a disguised 'socialism', aimed at protecting national industry and military power, without provoking a true socialist movement. Trump had to walk a very fine line to protect the elites of which he is a part and, at the same time, to mobilise the popular vote on which he depended and which, in general, does not even understand the socialist character of many of Trump's policies. That is why many declared themselves 'anti-socialists' and Trump used a, false, anti-socialist rhetoric, made plausible by, a no less false, identification of the left with socialism. That is where, the real reasons of Trump's defeat lie, that is, in the fact that Trump could not become a proper socialist, anti-immigrationist or anti-globalist, without raising 'the spectre'... Which, of course, brings questions about how deliberate and 'voluntary' Trump's defeat was. Was Trump a 'plant' of the elites to erode and preempt a true opposition, like BJ in the Brexit camp...?
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