jerryk on Nostr: Donald Trump has been deeply, personally involved in politics for well over a decade ...

Donald Trump has been deeply, personally involved in politics for well over a decade now, but, actually, I think a lot of people are still rather unclear about what exactly Donald Trump is doing in politics. He used to be a moderate Democrat, and has become a progressively farther right, even extreme right-wing Republican. In his life, he's mainly been an entertainer and a businessman -- perhaps he could be called an entertaining businessman. These days, he is often described as a far right populist politician, and that makes some sense, as far as it goes. However, as we see the Democrat lead in the generic ballot approaching levels not seen in this century, and only very rarely in the last century, one begins to wonder exactly what Donald Trump is really up to. You know, this election could be the swan song of the entire Republican Party, if the Democrats outperform their current polling by as much as has been the case in most if not all US elections in the last year and a half. They might take most of the 22 Republican Senate seats up for reelection, and 100 seats from the Republicans in the House. That isn't actually being predicted by anyone, and I don't particularly expect it myself, but, it's by no means inconceivable now. In any case, the Republicans are going to take a serious hammering in November, that is clear.

Why so bad? Well, certainly, Iran has something to do with it. The Iranians are into revenge. They destroyed Saddam Hussein, they ensured Jimmy Carter never got reelected, they threw out the Shah, they cut George Bush Junior down to size, they have the Israelis terrified of them, at all times. So, probably murdering the Iranian Supreme Leader wasn't a really brilliant move on Trump's part. Certainly, it's a problem for Donald Trump's youngest child, Barron Trump, who now has a 10 million dollar bounty on his head. He's only 20 years old, will he make it to 40? Time will tell.

The Iranians are largely controlling the outcome of the November elections by shutting down the flow of oil and other materials in the Middle East, thus massively stoking inflation, and hamstringing the US economy. But, couldn't Trump have anticipated this, particularly since everyone told him what would happen? What is Trump really up to here?

One possibility that has been rather half-heartedly suggested from time to time, is that Donald Trump actually is still a Democrat, maybe even a left-wing Democrat, and that he is actually acting as a kind of agent provocateur, a disrupter from within, and his goal is to totally destroy the Republican Party, and to shift the Democrats much further to the left than they have been in decades.

Sounds far-fetched? Well, you know, if Donald Trump were intentionally acting as an agent provocateur, trying to destroy the Republican Party from within, he couldn't possibly be doing a better job than he's doing right now, whatever his motivations are! I mean, this guy is amazing!

Of course, people's actions often have unintended consequences, particularly people who are high-powered disrupters like Trump. Napoleon and Hitler come to mind, and Trump may actually be almost at their level. Napoleon probably hadn't intended to bring about the reunfication of Italy and Germany, but, that is indeed the long term impact Napoleon had on Europe. Napoleon's long term impact on France was actually rather modest, compared to the impact he had on Italy and Germany. Was Napoleon an "agent provocateur", undermining France, but strengthening Italy and Germany? In practice, yes, in terms of his own motivations, who really knows?

What is one of the most important consequence of Hitler's reign of terror? We have the state of Israel. Effectively, and I hate to say it, but, it's true, Adolf Hitler has been the long sought Messiah of the Jewish people, finally bringing them back to their promised land, although at great cost. Prior to Hitler's genocide, there wasn't enough support for a Jewish State for it to become a reality. The Jewish Holocaust frightened the world's Jews so much, and got them so much sympathy, that they were finally able to make their dreams of the long lost promised land a reality, at last! How would Hitler feel about this? Actually, I think he would be amused and pleased about it. Really!

Are all great disrupters like Donald Trump, effectively, just agent provocateurs, disrupting anything and everything, just as an end in itself? Is that the difference between Donald Trump and his mentors Richard Nixon and Roy Cohn, that they didn't want to be defeated, but, Trump doesn't really care, because impeachment and removal mean nothing to him, as long as he achieves total destruction of the Republican Party, and possibly the entire US political system as we know it?


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