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wouldn't it be weird if as Trump's mind turns to jelly he becomes a socdem left populist. like how certain brain damage often makes people go right he gets the opposite
or he sees how popular Sheinbaum is and starts trying to copy some of that
obviously it would be filtered through his circle of ghouls
St. Peter is gonna be scratching his head at this one.
Trump presented MFN drug policy in his first term in 2020 as an alternative to "Medicare for All". It was meant to kill the enthusiasm for Free Healthcare amongst right wingers. It's in the same vein as "no tax on tips" rather than raising the minimum wage. It's meant to be an alternative ineffective solution, which makes it look like he's doing something good when he really isn't.
He says the same thing with tariffs. He says that tariffs are meant to return manufacturing to the US, but what is actually happening is that working class people are paying more sales taxes.
oh i know it's all BS.
I do have a theory that a portion of his fair weather base (registered indepedent with confused politics, not MAGA fankids) remember his vaguely populist rhetoric from his first run and just think he's never actually changed.
like he's just some anti-immigrant bernie type but has just surrounded himself with bad people. I've talked to a few people that are legit that confused and out of touch
It may not actually be. Sure, the corporations helped put Trump in power. They made the same gamble countless nations' corporate sectors did when supporting fascist leaders - "yes he's extreme, but we can control him." How well did that work out for the Nazi German corporate sector? How well did that work for Russia's oligarchs under Putin? Sure, some lucky ones got really rich by maintaining favor with the regime. But the moment your businesses interests go against the interests of the leader? You get trampled under the same boot as everyone else.
The pharma companies helped put Trump in power, but they're also incredibly unpopular. If there's some way Trump can crush them, then that would greatly increase his own popularity. It may well be worth it for MAGA to stomp the pharma companies, even if it means losing their donations. It would hardly be the first time a fascist leader purged many of the people who put him in power.
I mean...people do tend to regress as Alzheimer's sets in, no? Not regress as in regressive/progressive, but regress in terms of their own life experience and beliefs. You lose the newest memories first. And Trump was a Democrat for many years. He's always been racist and pro-tariff, but it's not impossible he had more progressive beliefs on many issues earlier in life. Whether he was only a Democrat because he lived in NYC, I can't say. But him becoming more liberal as his brain turns to mush really wouldn't be completely impossible. It really just depends on what his beliefs were earlier in life.