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Re: The Link Between George Wallace and Trump
Reply #15 - Aug 2nd, 2025 at 7:39am
 
With Trump's mission clear - the recreation of the social, political and cultural milieu of 1960s-1970s America - he's doing so within an America that is nostalgic for the imaginary world of the 'Beverley Hillbillies' - the idea of the white trash dumbcunt who falls arse-backwards into riches and fame.

His ideal of himself, most likely, is Reaganite, but where Reagan communicated confidence, strength and hope, in his Californian-ranch beef steak style, Trump's personality has only managed to project the image of a white trash dumbcunt who fell arse-backwards into riches and fame.

And the majority of Americans are currently okay with that.
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Reply #16 - Aug 3rd, 2025 at 8:09am
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 1st, 2025 at 8:20pm:
It's almost a Seinfeld series watching Trump as the 'George' character trying to be Wallace, then Nixon, then Carter, then Reagan, each episode... and failing with the same dramatic comedy that Jason Alexander breathed into 'George'.


I'm waiting for the SNL team to make a series of skits where the ghosts of Wallace, Nixon, Carter and Reagan, haunting Mar-a-Lago, try to school Trump.
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Reply #17 - Aug 3rd, 2025 at 8:15am
 
Recently, Trump channelled his inner Wallace in an apparent deflection attempt from the Epstein affair (how long before it's dubbed Eps-gate or Stein-gate?), by accusing Obama, Harris, Winfrey, Sharpton and Beyonce of crimes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH6C8XVfTMY
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Reply #18 - Aug 3rd, 2025 at 8:55am
 
Of the four entities that inhabit Trump's brain, his most honourable evocation is his inner Carter.

And he has avoided the Carter trap of, while avoiding war, he's sidestepped the political landmine of being stigmatised for jeopardising US national security by being perceived as weak.

Trump's in-then-out military action against Iran demonstrated that, while he can channel his inner Carter, he's also integrated a valuable lesson that eluded Carter.
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Reply #19 - Aug 3rd, 2025 at 10:12am
 
On his people-paranoia, Trump is at his most Nixonian of all four of his evocations.

And where Nixon had H. R. Halderman and John Erlichman as his most trusted protectors and head kickers, Trump has condensed them into the creature that is Laura Loomer.

Loomer, who is hyper-vigilant at even the slightest gesture that might betray disloyalty to Trump, is despised by most, if not all, of the Trump administration staff.

One word from Loomer and Trump will fire her 'suspects' immediately, usually with a flick hand-gesture, without a second thought, and they're gone.

Administration staff do whatever they can to prevent Loomer from getting near Trump, often by delaying her regular security checks until Trump is out of reach, and even by attempting to usher her off presidential transportation, which she can only reverse if she can get to Trump.
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Reply #20 - Aug 29th, 2025 at 7:38am
 
So, currently it's the ghost of Nixon that has its hand up Trump's arse...

His fomenting of 60s-style civil disorder, followed by 'troops on the streets' mirrors the Nixonian age almost as if Trump had found a secret diary of Nixon's detailing his game plan for establishing a US president as a latter-day American Louis XIV.

We're all waiting for 'Kent State'.
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