Putin trump gid11/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Ĭourt orders Texas to remove anti-migrant Rio Grande barriersįormer Trump White House lawyer says he doesn’t think Meadows case will be. Huckabee: 2024 will be last election ‘decided by ballots rather than. Paxton used Texas COVID response to benefit donor, former deputy AG testifies Paul challenges Capitol doctor’s diagnosis of McConnell as ‘clearly not. Is there another shoe to drop in the story of Clarence Thomas and his. Judge denies Kenneth Chesebro’s request to sever Georgia charges from Sidney. Republicans just can’t stop calling for civil warĥ takeaways from Peter Navarro’s contempt trial This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction, as well as “ Imperial Ends : The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires” and “ Why Empires Reemerge : Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective.” TagsĬopyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. ![]() Small wonder that he’s lost his magic and will soon lose his head.Īlexander J. Now he’s weak, prone to error and all too mundane. Putin arguably fit the bill some 15 to 20 years ago. After all, the central feature of fascism is the all-powerful, invincible, infallible, charismatic leader. Putin’s political system falls short of totalitarianism, but it meets the definitional criteria of fascism and, like other fascist regimes, it too will break down - and arguably already is breaking down. The war is going badly, even as the murder of innocent Ukrainians proceeds apace. Whatever the future holds for Trump, one can state with great confidence that Putin’s future is bleak, precisely because his ultra-solipsism has lost touch with the real reality, and not the one in his head. Unsurprisingly, Trump and Putin claim to admire each other. He doesn’t just lie he truly believes that he is Russia, that he defines reality, that he is always right, and that criticism of him is a repudiation of Russia and reality. Russia’s illegitimate president doesn’t sputter, but other than that Sullivan could have been writing about Putin. He is a truly postmodern man: no truth exists apart from his and any alternative reality has to be attacked mercilessly.” He is beyond accountability because he only lives in the moment, and reinvents the past at will. If he were to acknowledge any facet of a reality that does not flatter his ego, he would have a psychic break. “My own view has long been that Trump is beyond truth and lies: his ego is everything there is nothing outside it it is the only reality he knows. These bizarre beliefs wouldn’t be worth mentioning if it weren’t that they reveal something important about the two men: their absolute belief that they determine reality. All that’s missing is for Trump to place all the blame for America’s ills on Putin’s favorite neo-Nazi - Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Although both Trump and Putin behave like Benito Mussolini, they have the gall to claim their opponents are Nazis. The parallel with Russian President Vladimir Putin should be self-evident by now. The latter, especially under Joseph Stalin, would have shot him in the back of his head.įar more interesting than this ignorance is the Trump campaign’s implied suggestion that Trump’s critics and opponents are Nazis. The former would simply have arrested Trump and sent him to a concentration camp. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were totalitarian states that had no need to engage in elaborate court cases against their political opponents. Even if one assumes the worst and concludes that Trump is the target of a politically motivated conspiracy, the comparison with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union is, frankly, ignorant - which may be worse than incorrect, inappropriate and offensive. ![]()
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