Posted on 11/06/2023 6:10:03 AM PST by Phoenix8
pecter is haunting American politics—the specter of #MAGACommunism. In recent weeks, the hashtag has trended on Twitter, leaving most observers baffled: What in God’s name could Donald Trump’s movement ever have in common with communism? Is this a sarcastic take on America’s surreal politics?
Much of its appeal comes from its irreverent combination of seeming opposites. The memes that have proliferated under the hashtag—such as one showing Trump holding Mao’s Little Red Book—have a ludic quality recalling the spirit of the Trump 2016 campaign. But MAGA communism isn’t a mere joke. Indeed, some powerful actors in American society are taking it seriously, as shown by Google’s decision to affix a warning to search results related to the hashtag.
It’s unclear exactly who coined the hashtag, but it was popularized by Haz Al-Din, the brain behind Infrared, a self-described Marxist-Leninist YouTube channel—and beginning in early September, it spread on Twitter, in large part thanks to Jackson Hinkle, a popular communist commentator.
Al-Din is a gifted speaker—or “debate bro,” in the parlance of internet politics—who is capable of discussing heavyweight political theory in an informal, jocular manner. It’s enough to listen to one of his videos, or to read one of his dense Substack posts, to realize that Al-Din is dead serious about #MAGACommunism—that is, about the notion, which most people would find preposterous, that communists in America should support the MAGA movement.
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It’s startling to think the NWO elite ruling class has became so rotten they have even alienated communists LOL.
Good post you made, I think a quick look at wealth gap over time supports it from an economic point and the equity claims are supported by our societal decay of the last …decade or so?
https://www.cbpp.org/income-gains-widely-shared-in-early-postwar-decades-but-not-since-then-3
Well, there is truth to that claim actually. They did promote Hamas for many years to counter Arafat & the PLO. It’s pretty well documented. But I think it was really the liberal factions within Israel who did this.
Hopefully all the communists in academia believe this nonsense and vote Trump back into office... they won’t like what they get (but I will).
The progressive base is infantile and are easily manipulated via infantile slogans, catch phrases and soundbites.
The globalists are used to guiding their base in that manner and are unable to formulate an effective strategy to manipulate the Conservative base; therefore, they’ll do what worked on their own and remain puzzled over why it wasn’t successful.
Trump or the dims. Which side is in line with Communism? That’s a real poser. /sarc
Yes, they just want to lure people to plain old regular communism.
It’s the projectionism of the leftist ideas on to MAGA to get the public to think that Trump is going to be dictator and take away all of our freedoms.
The root cause is Nixon's abandonment of the Bretton Woods gold exchange mechanism in 1971. With gold exchange, trade deficits must be paid for in gold: if you transfer too much gold, your currency must be devalued. This automatically corrects trade deficits. It also limits large scale movements of capital, since moving billions of dollars outside the US requires transferring US gold to foreigners. So getting rid of Bretton Woods opened the US to unlimited trade deficits and unfair foreign competition. It also transferred control of the currency from Congress (as mandated by the Constitution) to the Federal Reserve, since the only way to back a currency is now by using interest rates. It also enables unlimited government spending because the dollars are backed by the printing press.
At the same time as kicking off high inflation by fiat currency and opening the US to unlimited unfair foreign competition, the US government imposed untold billions of regulatory costs for environmental and "safety" reasons on US heavy industry. This combination (which got worse with China) was a death blow to US heavy industry and resource extraction, both of which provided high income jobs. And at the same time the US was flooded with immigrants at both the low and skilled sides of the labor market. The consequences have been a steady decline in real US incomes and the concentration of wealth through the financialization of the economy.
The Left did the same thing with the Tea Party Movement.
Then tried to say Antifa was really the Right.
The Tea Party Movement could have been the greatest thing in the history of the GOP.
The Left was terrified of it.
So the Uniparty had to destroy it.
He's just out to make noise and draw attention to himself.
He is not serious and should not be taken seriously.
Sending out covid checks, not dealing with medicaid, social security, medicare, and the ever expanding government spending does not line up with freedom. That certainly is in the socialist/communist direction.
If actual Communists support Trump, it’s because they think chaos will result and hasten the Revolution. “The worse things are, the better they are” is an old Communist watchword.
There are some Marxists and ex-Marxists who do look to the right to smash the power structure. There’s the Living Marxism/Spiked-Online group in Britain and the Telos circle here, but neither group calls themselves Communists.
Agree, don’t forget student loan forgiveness and our open borders (communism is internationalist in perspective).
I also think post #28 has something to do with the root causes of our misery.
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