Trumpism: The Ideology

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A friend shared this article on G+, makes some good, and worrying points:

https://tucker.liberty.me/trumpism-the-ideology/

We need more "nationalists", the internationalists have been the problem all along. If we cared more about America we would of never bombed Serbia or invaded Iraq, if we didn't do that then maybe ISIS doesn't exist and Russia isn't meddling Ukraine under the Kosovo precedent. People should know the old right was explicitly non-interventionist, it wasn't until Vietnam and the birth of the new left that the antiwar voice became associated with the left. Neoconservatives were left wingers until the New Left came about and they joined the Republican party. People like the Rockefellers are the enemies of the United States and the real fascists, not Trump.

Some here may remember Ross Perot, the bourgeois billionaire and darling of the 1992 campaign. Perot was a similar type of charismatic narcissistic wannabe despot, appealing to a vanishing white middle class as a savior. But Perot got drunk on his own poll numbers (40% favorable at one time) and went further and further out on a limb until even his most diehard followers couldn't deny that he came across as batshit crazy.

He still won 19% of the vote on election day, and as a result Bill Clinton won. Clinton then pursued policies that literally created the modern far right, militias and all. The same people who now cheer Trump. Trump could easily split Jeb Bush's base, and get Hillary elected with maybe a 40-45% showing.

That is concerning because I believe that if America wakes up the morning after the election to learn that Hillary has won with 40% of the vote, that some on the radical right will take that as a green light to go to war-against the US govt. Hillary could find herself looking at the first true insurrection since 1860.

She will probably flub the response, fracturing the country and leading to a civil war similar to, say, Angola's, where a war raged for 40 years and devastated the country. Or maybe something like the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The movie Blood Diamond is a very Hollywoodized look at the Sierra Leone conflict, but a good starting place. Better is to read A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Bean, a former child soldier in the SL war.

I'm of the impression that in spite of his success he isn't particularly bright. He had a lot of help from his father, who taught him how to be a grifter. His main skill is to talk big.

I'm sure there is a GRAIN of truth to what Trump has said. Mexico has its share of problems. If you look at homicide rates for Mexico, it is rather high (although the US isn't exceptional either). So if you extrapolate that more Mexcians commit homicide more often than US born citizens and then these Mexicans move to the US we will have more homicides here (possibly). I'm not sure if this logic follows but there are real issues to be dealt with... there is a lot of crime in Mexico...

However, I think his general attitude is rather shallow and dumb. I can't think of any intelligent way to say this. I just think he is a psychopath. He simply doesn't seem like a nice man to me.