Trump
is uniting those opposed to him on both sides of the aisle into what
is essentially a single party that supports American exceptionalism
and its license to wage endless war around the world. Ironically,
this very precept is fervently embraced by Trump himself.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
4 - The left mops itself into a corner
By
casting Trump as anathema to both corporate political parties and
also decrying the imaginary threat he represents to American empire,
the mainstream American left is being pushed into embracing the wars
it was once against, particularly if Russia is the target. For
instance, “liberal” comedian Bill Maher recently made the case
that the U.S. should “fight back” against Russia over accusations
of Russian “meddling” collectively known as Russiagate.
Journalist
Jeet Heer, writing in the New Republic, asserts, in a piece titled
“Why the Anti-War Left Should Attack Putin, Too,” that Russian
President Vladimir Putin is seeking to create “an international
alt-right.” He adds that “Fighting Trumpism in America is not
enough. Leftists have to be ready to battle it in all its forms, at
home and abroad.”
Thus,
“the resistance” to Trump, ostensibly championed by Democrats,
has led swaths of the American left not only to embrace a
once-despised former president and war criminal but also to erase all
semblance that it was once the party that opposed America’s
perpetual wars.
Trump
– instead of dividing America – is uniting those opposed to him
on both sides of the aisle into what is essentially a single party
that supports American exceptionalism and its license to wage endless
war around the world. Ironically, this very precept is fervently
embraced by Trump himself, making “the resistance” a cleverly
disguised means of both rewriting American history and dismembering
any real resistance to American empire.
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