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Sunday March 11, 2018 22:55 by Jerome Roos - ROAR
Trump’s erratic presidency is a manifestation, not the cause, of democratic decay. The unfolding political crisis will outlast him. So must the resistance. It’s been a year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America — and we’re already exhausted. Exhausted by the endless stream of sexist and racist bigotry pouring out of his hideous face and Twitter feed. Exhausted by the rapid succession of 24-hour scandals, one outrage sweeping another from the headlines before the immensity of the previous one has even begun to properly sink in. Exhausted by the immature personal grudges and individual fallings-out that are constantly played out in public amidst the gratuitous threats of nuclear annihilation. Exhausted by the gas-lighting narcissism, the power-hungry egotism and the self-aggrandizing vanity of a multi-billionaire businessman who has never known anything but public adulation for his inherited wealth. Exhausted, frankly, by the very realization — recurring on a daily basis — that this man-child’s maniacal delusions have actually been confirmed, insofar as he himself is concerned, by his election to the most powerful office in the world. Nevertheless, amidst the storm of chaos that Donald Trump has unleashed upon the world, it becomes ever more necessary to take some distance from the headlines and reflect upon the broader meaning of the past year in American and global politics. For me personally, three observations stand out.
1) THE LIMITS OF TRUMP’S “DECLARATIVE POLITICS”
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Spring zu Komment: 1This is a fine and insightful article. It is worth distributing (even if the author may not be a revolutionary anarchist, as is suggested by his reference to "The left, for its part, if it ever gains power....").
I agree that much of Trump's effect is through his wacky and noxious tweets and other statements. But it is easy to overlook some of his administration's actual changes, such as its attacks on the environment in all their departments, doing all they can to destroy the climate, public health, and any limitations on ecological catastrophe. While we can condemn the Democrats for claiming to be for opposing climate change but actually doing little or nothing, the Trump administration has done its damnedest to speed up global destruction. Even if Trump avoids going to a nuclear war, he may still threaten human survival.
The alternative is as much maximal radical opposition as possible, building a revolutionary libertarian wing of the developing movement(s) which does not rely at all on the Democrats.