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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Omg do you actually think that's what Trumpism is about? It's about cheap emotional manipulation to give people easy enemies to latch onto the same as any fascist movement. The specifics are only as relevant as they are exploitable even if the specifics are in some way actually relevant and speak to real problems. Protectionism speaks to Trump voters because China provides an easy villain even if deindustrialization is a real problem affecting their lives.
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Yeah, that's how they got a typically anti-Semitic base that interchangeably uses Zionism with Judaism to justify their anti-Semitism into siding with Israel even using their conflation of Zionism with Judaism to call people who criticize Israel anti-Semitic.