Where the Nationalist Socialism meets Marxist Socialism
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are remarkably similar in their policy prescriptions. The way they articulate it is very different but it is 100% same. Let us look at their policy propositions.
Both are opposed to any kind of immigration and specifically claim “these people are taking your jobs”.
Both are in favor of “protecting American businesses” by imposing ideas like tariffs.
Both believe in threatening American businesses to take certain actions. For example forced acquisition of Tiktok or forced Foxconn plants.
Both support abortions. Bernie supports it openly while Trump supports it through covert set of organizations called Tanton network. (Tanton supposedly created several organizations that have advocated eugenics and producing less babies.)
Once you look deeper into Trump’s economic policy you realize that it comes from a certified loser called Peter Navarro. There is a reason why I am using the word “loser” here. It is in a literal sense. He tried to fight many elections as a democrat and lost every single one of them. There were times when he even managed to bring Hillary Clinton to campaign for him and lost with record margins.
He eventually started writing investment books, the airport literature category and later shifted to anti-china books. He wrote under a pseudonym and quotes himself in other books.
This scam is covered in detail by Reason magazine here.
And that, apparently, was enough. "When Trump wanted to speak more substantively about China" on the campaign trail, Vanity Fair's Sarah Ellison reported in 2017, "he gave [Jared] Kushner a summary of his views and then asked him to do some research." Kushner, the president's son-in-law and a key campaign adviser, did some Googling and stumbled upon one of Navarro's books. One phone call later and the Trump campaign had its first economic adviser.
Finally, Ron Vara had gotten his big break.
"The tariffs are hurting China. China is bearing the entire burden of the tariffs," Navarro claimed, falsely, during an August 2019 interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.
How the Nationalist Socialists meet the Marxist Socialist
One thing you will notice about Biden’s first year in office is how steadfast he has been in continuing Trump’s policies. He has continued nearly all Trump policies including legally questionable moves such as using title 42 to expel asylum seekers. He has kept travel ban on most countries and have also continued to tariffs on China.
Understanding national socialism
We need to understand Trump’s brand of socialism. The quiet rural landscape had people who farmed, ran a small factory and lived a decent life on their own. The world was easy to understand for them. Times changed in last 20 years. Suddenly you had Youtube, Facebook and Teslas. Gas stations and gas powered cars are no more appealing and you hear of billion dollar companies coming up in China and India.
Some of the key faces in business are brown, black or immigrants or gays or women.
This is a cultural shock for many white conservatives. Who think their lifestyle is under threat. Their grandsons might date an Indian or Chinese girl or their grand daughter’s boss might be a black guy. There was a time when the rearview mirror for white Americans was empty. No one was even close to them. The gap now is very little. In fact asians on an average earn more than average whites.
Libertarian economist Milton Friedman often pointed out to us that Capitalism is a profit and LOSS system. As long as both the sides exist, everyone benefits. As long as capitalism and free market ideas worked in the favor of white conservative people they favored Capitalism.
In the modern world however it is the Chinese and Indians who have warmed up to the idea of free markets. They made rapid progress and they are the winners in many sectors.
This is unacceptable to the typical white conservative who now want to scale back that capitalism and free market system and instead turn to the state to “protect our way of life”.
I want to remind the readers that while Trump or the typical white conservative talks about “protecting jobs, protecting american businesses, america first”, they actually are referring to “keeping America white”.
They will happily sacrifice economic growth, jobs or businesses to achieve that. Trump want to punish Google and Facebook for hiring Indians and Chinese. Remember these are iconic American growth powerhouses that other countries will bend over backwards to have. But yet, the great American conservatives hate these successful businesses and would happily join hands with Democrats who want to break them.
American conservatives are uncomfortable in hurting American businesses but will do it to keep their racial demography intact.
Understanding Marxist Socialism
Marxists like Bernie are weird bunch. They do not care about any group. They do not care about LGBTQ, elderly or blacks. In fact socialist countries treat people on margin as shit or outright kill them. That is what will happen in USA if Marxist take over.
All their alliances are short term.
But Marxists in USA realize that unless Americans are angry about something they will not gain power. If American industry keeps growing, if there are better jobs and more innovation people have hope.
For the Marxists to take over this hope must be destroyed. People must be convinced that they are in a terrible situation that will not be solved without violence. That is why they hate American economy and businesses and workers who power that innovation.
That is where they find Trump like policies useful as they are setting this country on fire.
The biggest red flag is the nativist support for abortion.
The trend that very few people have noticed is that Trumpian nativists have supported “population control”. Something that conservatives have traditionally hated.
Read this week report.
Why do pro-life conservatives support anti-immigrant groups pushing population control?
There is a strange hypocrisy at the heart of the conservative movement
Tanton isn't worried simply about the number of humans, but also their quality. Under his leadership, FAIR accepted $1.2 million from the Pioneer Fund, a white nationalist organization that favors eugenics for "race betterment." While social conservatives worry that modern medicine will trigger an unnatural quest for perfect, designer babies, Tanton's concern is that it will lead to the "eroding of the gene pool" by letting less intelligent people procreate faster than more intelligent ones.
Numbers USA an anti-immigrant organization has this dramatic video :
It is the same organization who has made its mission to oppose Indians in USA.
African Americans and Hispanics today are more aligned with Conservative and traditional American values than white middle class or upper middle class.
As of today, black people and hispanic people support the traditional American values like freedom, free speech and guns lot more than white middle class that votes for Trump. Where an average Trump voter might as well be vegan, organic eater and believer in things like workers unions.