A READER writes:

I just want to say how disappointed I am when I read the usual putdowns of Donald Trump. If he wasn’t exactly like he is, the media would never report on him. The things he says, they are forced to report. He cannot be ignored. It is absurd that anyone says the media loves him. Yeah, they are crazy about him. As Phyllis Schlafly says, he is the last hope for America. I love the way he talks, it is honest and true. Si si, no no. Loud and clear. He will make America great again – he is the only one not bought and controlled. As for Ted Cruz, no way. I will suggest a website that says it all: The Last Refuge.

Laura writes:

That Phyllis Schlafly views as a savior a flagrant adulterer and casino racketeer, a man who was not self-made and has a disturbing background of dealings with organized crime, says a lot about the state of American conservatism. But then we knew it was bad. Very, very bad.

Yes, Trump has said things that needed to be said, but he often has a coarse, insulting way of putting them and has made a number of demagogic proposals that are impossible to realize anytime soon and would not bring about a renewal of this country.

I stand by my previous point that the media loves the story of Donald Trump. They love using him to paint Americans who are legitimately angry and concerned about national survival as boobs and morons. Furthermore, he is simply not an anti-establishment maverick. If he were truly addressing the economic rape of America by the Federal Reserve system and the domination of our politics, media and popular culture by a nexus of usurious Wall Street con-artists, conglomerates and conspirators, forces that are the true cause of ruinous open borders to begin with, and if he were even going so far as to explain to Americans that the World Trade Center was not brought to the ground in spectacular clouds of atomized dust by 19 hijackers with boxcutters, he would not be getting the attention and airtime he is getting now. He would be ignored or publicly destroyed. His organized crime dealings would be the major story, not his brash challenges and comebacks. I believe the people at the top of the major media could obliterate him politically within a few weeks if they chose to. But they don’t choose to. Because they love him. He’s one of those wonderfully easy news stories, a gift that keeps on giving, and they love easy stories, especially ones that anger, arouse and divide. In any event, he has been chosen by the Powers That Be, not the people. The people are nothing.

Leaving aside the comparison with Hitler, I agree with Webster Tarpley when he writes:

Trump views China, Mexico, and Japan as enemy states. He accuses them of duping and hoodwinking the United States, especially on trade deals. He is also hostile to Iran, which has been the main beneficiary of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Trump boasts that he wanted to steal Iraq’s oil, but leaves the details of how this could be accomplished to another Triumph of the Will.

How then, according to Trump, are America’s adversaries so successful? Why is America no longer great? His usual answer is that US leaders have been incredibly stupid. It will be seen that this is very vague. Most of Trump’s followers probably think this means that Trump will run everything personally, and that every aspect of the US government will benefit from the inevitable Triumph of the Will.

The stupidity of government officials is comparable to some of Hitler’s themes. Hitler targeted the entire bourgeoisie as cowardly, senile, intellectually rotten morons. This is more emphatic than Trump, but not very different.

Blaming stupidity is very convenient for a demagogue like Trump. If the cause of decline is just generic and undifferentiated human foible of stupidity, there will be no need to nationalize the Federal Reserve, nor to provide 0% long-term federal credit for infrastructure, energy production, education, manufacturing, mining and agriculture. For Trump, credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations do not have to be banned – just used less stupidly. Keep everything as it is, don’t touch the institutions or most laws – just change the cast of characters to include Trump and his minions. Here we can see how un-radical, narrow and superficial Trump’s demands are in reality, despite all his bombastic turbulence.

So Trump prefers to talk most about stupid government officials, and about nefarious foreign countries like China, Mexico, and Japan. Not about Wall Street or its satellite, the Federal Reserve.

I don’t endorse everything Tarpley says here. The solution lies in something like social credit economics not New Deal, big government systems, and of course there is much more than economics that ails us, but there is no relief — none — in electoral politics before this international economic cabal is broken. If it were, other countries would see revival instead of debt slavery and eventual meltdown too. Mexicans would even want to stay home.

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