Donald Trump, class traitor par excellence

If there is a data point above all of these suggests Donald Trump and JD Vance is headed for a resounding victory on Nov. 5, this is: By a nearly 40-point margin in the polling average, Americans are more inclined to believe the country is currently on the wrong track than the right one.

There are other reasons to believe that the 45th president is peaking at the best possible time and that crazy California committeeman Kamala Harris is going wild at the worst possible time, but the stubbornness of the polls on the right/the wrong way wrong has certainly led to many sleepless nights. nights at the Harris-Walz campaign headquarters. It defies common sense for Americans to re-elect the Vice President from the administration responsible for such a mess. At some level, the Democrats surely know this.

But if Trump’s campaign was already on the up and up, his brilliant, perfect hamburger-and-fries stop last Sunday at a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s would have sealed the deal. The 45th President of the United States has ditched his signature suit for a chef’s apron, hosting the fryer and serving up Happy Meals to drive-thru customers.

Trump, a longtime McDonald’s aficionado, was gracious and seemed genuinely excited to interact with the fast-food franchise’s employees and customers. The lead photo of the visit that went viral, which saw Trump smiling as he waved goodbye to a car customer, has emerged as the second most iconic image of this presidential cycle — behind only his raised fist and face bloody trump. crashed to death on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Once again, Trump has proven that he is the people’s billionaire — someone who, as I wrote for TomKlingenstein.com earlier this year, “may have ‘elite’ ruling class credentials, but whose hearts, lies , general concerns and sensitivities are determined. country class.”

Trump, who has been an outlier among his fellow wealthy industrialists ever since his nationalist views on trade began to collide decades ago with the free-trade absolutism of the neoliberal class, is the most formidable class traitor in American politics. today. And at a time when Americans are bemoaning the state of their republic and bemoaning the decadence of their ruling elites, that class traitor status is looking more and more like a ticket to victory.

Once upon a time, the Democrats were the party of workers in America. Those days are long gone. At some point between the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the Democratic Party decided to launch a full-scale war against the economic and cultural interests of the working class. Manufacturing and supply chain resilience have gone out the window as the “New Democrats” have abandoned the American heartland and outsourced countless jobs – and many entire industries – to our Chinese Communist archphone in the name of “efficiency”. Elite as usual biblical morality debased as bigotry, denigrated respect for the rule of law as a vestige of “white supremacy”, denigrated support for immigration restrictions as xenophobic, and criticized support for locking up hardened criminals as racist.

Trump has come—or, rather, descended on a gilded escalator—to tell ordinary, “salt-of-the-earth” Americans that no, you’re actually not that terrible. Notyou are not a horrible person simply because you are white (or any other skin color). Notyou are not a hopeless troglodyte just because you think about The Bible is the inherent Word of God. Notyou are not a relic of a bygone era to believe that police officers do an important job and that secure and stable national borders are necessary for a nation to actually be a nation in the first place. Notyou are not a crypto-fascist for flying red, white and blue on your front porch and for being proud of America’s historical heritage.

Many have noticed this Trump is like a “comment section comes alive”. What they mean by this is that Trump says and does irreverent things that others would usually avoid doing. There is some truth to this. But it would be more accurate to say that Trump is the silver spoon-fed scion who never cared much for his supposed social and economic peers. Trump is an “out-of-towner” to his core — the boy from Queens who never thought much of the wealthy Manhattanites who sipped their brandy and smoked their cigars across the East River. Trump was involved with Ross Perot’s populist Reform Party and was outspoken in his opposition to NAFTA at a time when virtually everyone with a seven-figure net worth was an ardent free-trader.

Donald Trumpin short, it has always was a class traitor. And after his big helping of French fries and Happy Meals in Pennsylvania, that status as a class traitor may earn him a second term in the White House on November 5.

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