was that due to Trump saying the quiet part out loud or was that rather due to neoliberalism having wrecked America to the point where material conditions become a radicalization factor for more and more parts of the American populace?
Why can't they be part of the same process? Bush needed to "save the Iraqi people from Saddam," and it was a total lie and now, no one believes that so easily so Trump just says "because we kick ass" or whatever. This is part of the same progression, the slow fall of empire; we cannot spend money on our infrastructure or healthcare because we spend hundreds of billions on the military. Both our material conditions and Trump's stupidity are related to the corporate state. I confess to being an optimist about whether people will recognize this or not, but I think people will be pressured to take an antiwar stance and of course this means losing our hegemonic status.
Why can't they be part of the same process? Bush needed to "save the Iraqi people from Saddam," and it was a total lie and now, no one believes that so easily so Trump just says "because we kick ass" or whatever. This is part of the same progression, the slow fall of empire; we cannot spend money on our infrastructure or healthcare because we spend hundreds of billions on the military. Both our material conditions and Trump's stupidity are related to the corporate state. I confess to being an optimist about whether people will recognize this or not, but I think people will be pressured to take an antiwar stance and of course this means losing our hegemonic status.