Trump: end point and springboard

In relation to our article We can see clearly now: We’re closely allied to a fascist regime and so must rea

Margaret Callinan, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Mar 10, 2025

I wholeheartedly agree with the title of Michael McKinley’s article. But I disagree that “Trump’s victory was not inevitable.” If not Trump, someone incredibly similar, summarising McKinley’s delicious adjectives with the inadequate “deranged”, was bound to emerge.

Trump (or similar) is the natural endpoint of the neo-liberalism that started at least in the late 18th, early 19th century. That manufactured disaster hollowed out the US so that all the money weighing at the top could not be upheld by the masses of poor and ignorant the system created beneath it. It was inevitable that someone cherishing money and power would come along and promise them Eden. And so it came to pass, the blighted followed in their millions.

But Eden won’t deliver. The scales will start to fall from the eyes of the deceived. We’re at the beginning of this now, a springboard is building beneath their feet. We can only guess where the masses will go, what they will do, to the deceiver-in-chief and his acolytes when finally they too “can see clearly now”. The end for Trump and MAGA. The beginning of …what?