Fascists and Communists
I just watched Steven Miller, Trump’s deputy Chief of Staff, White Supremacist, and frat boy poster child, bash, harass, mansplain, mock, and insult CNN anchorwoman Pamela Brown on her show on CNN today.
"Am I going to sit here today and engage in radical hypotheticals?" the man asked. And also aired his cerebral (note the egghead) view that the judges blocking Trump’s EOs are “communists.”
Does the issue even matter? More than the behavior? Well, actually the issue does matter whether there is one Steven Miler or a thousand rising, like mythological demons, from every drop of sweat he sheds defending Trump; so here it is—the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to suspend deportation protections for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
By-bye Miss American Pie, Lady Liberty, for you people from countries Trump doesn’t benefit from.
I was not a bit incredulous. Frat boys rule America (in a sense, always have, which is in fact a big part of the problem, but that’s for another post). Miller even has the blotchy skin to vouch for it. Look again at the shot of him above. That basilisk gaze; that thin sneer; that dismissive look. You see that before? If you’re a woman, you’ve likely seen on it some mentally deficient mansplainer bully engorged on homosocial (aka frat boy) backing or another, sometime in your life.
But it was a zingy discovery that in the binaristic (and with MAGA Republicans always only incendiary and divisive) climate and language of American politics now, we Americans are actually now citizens of an Eastern Bloc country. (I’m sure Putin has noted this with satisfaction.)
Why are we now an Eastern Bloc country? In this case we are now an Eastern Bloc country because we live in a nightmare polis.
The Dems (and that includes me) are calling The MAGA Republicans Fascists, while the gaga MAGA Republicans are giving back as good as they get and more by calling the Democratic party the Communist party of America (a la Steven). This will remind you of that historic bricolage of strange bedfellows in politics long stereotyped as Behind the Iron Curtain world-formation—a bloody cocktail of swiftly shapeshifting fascist and communist megalomanias and misrule.
What fun. We Americans are now both of the things we’ve traditionally professed to abhor.
Caught in between are we, the American people, and to an extent the whole world. While Communist Fascist America dukes it out internally, tariffs rise, Gazans die, Ukraine is reduced to a charnel house, and little yippy fascists everywhere else excitedly beg for crumbs from America’s homosocial oligarchs.
Everyone knows Elon Musk isn’t really gone. We wish he were, and to Mars, but alas . . . .
No, instead he’s just brought forty-nine of his best friends over from South Africa. Because they were being “oppressed” by black South Africans.
They said, “Trump Help!” And he did! (What have the Gazans got wrong here? Not wearing baseball hats?)
I wonder where those good folks have been settled, and if the neighbors are bringing over American pie as welcome.