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Politics: Sausage making

Donald Trump's electoral strategy is similar to his legal strategy, don't follow the process, abuse the process and fix the problem behind the scenes.  That is why he was so successful, surrounded by grifters who were betting the house, and the consequences of their actions are all part of the same show.  The disbarred lawyers "know" that when Trump is President they will get the big payoffs, although most of them who were semi-competent made sure to get paid upfront.   Only the idiots, such as Guliani gave advice on credit...that only gets you so far.

Politics is about money, it is also about money in the UK (don't let Labour make you think otherwise) and politics shares a lot of similarities with sausage making, "how can something so good have so many disgusting ingredients..."

Trump last week took it to a new level, he asked US oil executives for $1 billion in election money with a guarantee that he would reverse all of Biden's green energy laws.   The US oil industry seems ready to spend $1 billion on Trump (and it seems to have been working) so far, there are rumours that the oil companies are already drafting the President's executive orders -- they probably don't trust Trump and so want it on paper.   

Honestly, it is refreshing that Trump broke this new taboo.   First was the "grab them by the pussy"  then was "I didn't sleep or know here", followed by doing absolutely nothing for four years.   Several times David Duke was received at the White House (aka the head of the Klu Klux Klan).  Before Trump, no leader of the GOP would have dared.  He named fundamentalist judges that got rid of Roe V Wade.   Now the GOP feels strong enough to propose FEDERAL legislation that would require EVERY pregnant woman to register with the government (I wish I was making this up).   The GOP fired its entire senior management and instead is working hard to ensure that THIS election will not be stolen (apparently to work for the new GOP you have to state that the 2020 elections were stolen).   

What is interesting is that Trump was the catalyst and not the agent.   Trump seized what had until 2015 the subliminal Republican program, stood on America's real church steps (aka the Golden escalator in Trump Tower) and told the GOP that it was more than OK to be racist, it was OK to hate your neighbour, that abortion must be abolished and that freedom of expression has to be entirely for their side, and no one else.   

The Republican Party of 2024 is the consequence of the decision of the 1960s -- when the Democrats introduced equality acts and abortion rights.   The US south which had been a Democratic stronghold became Republican.   The whispered message was there, it was always there, and it had grown stronger under Reagan and again under Bush II, but it was the election of Obama that crystallized the hatred and the vision that others were taking over "their Christian nation".

That's the bad news, here is the good news.  Trump has made enemies out of capital, US corporate interests have been kicked out of the GOP, and it shows because the Democrats are outfunding the GOP by 10:1.   That is the key, that is why Trump asked for $1 billion for the US oil sector.   That means there is an important part of the US electorate that is up for grabs, and you see it every day with the continued GOP primaries where Nikki Haley keeps on getting about 20% of GOP primary voters.   They are still republicans but will not support Donald Trump, at worst they will not vote, at best for the Democrats, they will vote for the Democrat ticket...



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