Trump's really oddball concept of Dems as communists

In an appearance on “Fox & Friends” last week. Trump said "there has never been a ticket like [Harris-Walz]. This is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately" — see note, below — "if not sooner. We want no security. We want no anything. He’s heavy into transgender.”

The non sequitur of Walz's transgender heaviness is still more comprehensible than "we want no anything," which, I assume, is somehow related to "we want no security." That could mean national defense or it could mean border security, but wanting "no anything" means no everything; which is to say, everything from B-1 bombers to USDA meat inspectors to so much as one border agent — everything in Harris-Walz's government would be eliminated with "no anything."

That's pretty far removed from a presidential ticket that "wants this country to go communist," a system in which everything is government — unless Trump was talking about communism's final stage in which, after the dictatorship of the proletariat, the state simply "withers away," as Friedrich Engels put it.

Something tells me, though, that Trump has not read deeply into Marxism. Perhaps that's why he also accuses Democratic pols — nearly all of whom are moderates in the American tradition — of being communists and fascists. I can think of no other factions or ideologies more opposed to each other than commies and Nazis, but Trump has the benefit of a base as ill-read as he.  

But there is one similarity between communists and fascists. They're both totalitarians. And since virtually everything that comes of out of Trump's mouth is projection, we can safely assume that his calling Democrats by one or both names means ruling as a totalitarian is his one great hope for a second term — although totalitarians don't have "terms." And so neither would Trump.    

His projection and ideological ignorance are clear enough. What mystifies me is why I have yet to hear one interviewing journalist stop Trump right after he intones that his political opponents are "radical leftist socialist Marxist communist fascists" and just ask him what any of that means.

Journalists interrupt politicians over some insignificant remark all the time. But they won't interrupt a major party's nominee for the presidency of the United States who routinely accuses the other side of Stalinism and Hitlerlism? The accusation strikes me as a Bidenesque big fucking deal.

If you were a journalist listening to a presidential nominee warn that Harris-Walz "want this country to go communist immediately," would you not be at least a little curious, and want to hear more?

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Note: In the photo above, the sign behind Kamala Harris and Tim Walz actually read, "Kamala and the Coach." The fake photo was taken from a video that received 400,000 views and thousands of reposts and likes. 

Comments

[Anne J]

After 8 years of his communists and fascists blather, if they haven't asked him by now, they never will.