TRUMP’S HISTORICAL MISSION
Can Trump really be serious about “crashing the plane” of the global economy?
On 7th April the Daily Telegraph’s Tim Stanley said he admired Trump for trying to change history - and destroy an international monetary system which Nixon said was run by “gangsters”, and
“…vampires sucking the blood out of every transaction”.
Stanley says Trump is crashing this plane so that America - and ordinary Americans - can survive the debt-fuelled crash it will otherwise cause.
“Trump is correcting a 50-year misdirection in US life, and one that the hero of many Trumpers, Richard Nixon, also attempted to fix.”
Does he not care that Big Business - as well as shareholding Boomers - will see him as their mortal enemy for this villainous move? No.
Crooke says that Trump is clearly “axeing” the neoliberal, borderless and global economic world order.
He also says it is neither whimsical nor reckless, and that it had to happen.
“Just to be clear, Trump believed there was no choice : Either he could upend the existing paradigm, at the cost of considerable pain for many of those dependent on the financialised system, or he could allow events to wend their way towards an inevitable US economic collapse.”
It seems that Trump is indeed Bane, and that his master plan was not about a plane that was going to crash anyway - but about who - and what - will survive.
If he pulls this off the global system dies. Its economic model, its propaganda and lies, and all the remnant liberal states and their captive institutions.
Is he a big enough guy to do it? No one knows.
Yet this seems to be the plan - and Donald no longer cares about the optics.
This could be extremely painful - as Bane would say. But for who?
