The media commentaries on Trump’s behavior, as well as those in the pseudo-left and left-liberal press, focus on Trump in a vacuum, as if his racist remarks have little if any significance beyond the putrid mind of this billionaire con man. Virtually none of the supposed opponents of Trump bother to ask, let alone answer, the question of where he comes from and what he represents.
Trump is the product of decades of economic decline and political reaction. It is impossible to conceive of this bigot in the White House without the nearly 50 years of social counterrevolution, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, that led up to his Electoral College victory in 2016. Trump embodies the decay of the American oligarchy, of which he is a part.
Martin Luther King Day marked with an open racist in the White House
By Fred Mazelis 16 January 2018 Ever since its adoption as a US federal holiday more than 30 years ago, Martin Luther King Day has been the occasion for hypocritical declamations by the ruling class

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