2019-04-19

Coup By Narrative Failed, Russiagate Blowback Will Generate Populist Fusion in 2020

The election of President Trump was the American electorate's attempt at government reform. Instead of working with President Trump to make substantial changes favorable to the American voter, the establishment decided to concoct a Russia lie that hijacked the government for 2 years. The media drove the lie. Democrats went wholesale for it. Even the GOP establishment went along with it because few to none in Washington want any change in the status quo. Instead of reforming the horrendous and spitefully named Affordable Care Act, reform was killed (on a personal vendetta vote by Senator McCain). Instead of working on border issues or trade as the American public voted, the GOPe decided it was time for another round of corporate tax cuts. Instead of control over the border, illegal migration is worse than ever and subversive judges undermining the democratically elected President and his executive authority have created such mayhem that even Obama officials are coming out and calling it a major crisis. Even Democrat officials who have been screaming that foreign migrants are "more American than Americans" and who encouraged millions to cross the border illegally, are now screaming at the prospect of having the hordes relocate to their communities. If you thought voters were pissed off in 2016, get ready for fury-squared.
Trump supporters are upset at no progress, such that even Ann Coulter suggested supporting Bernie Sanders if he would get control over the border.
Trump will probably be able to turn his supporters' anger at the lack of reform onto the media, Democrats and GOPe. More so if he starts governing like he promised during the 2016 election. But given the polarized nature of the polity, it is likely he can rely on Russiagate to at least animate his base.

On the Democrat side of the aisle, the establishment is in serious trouble for the first time. Unlike the GOPe that faced rebellion going back to Ron Paul in 2008 and suffered a massive defeat in 2016, the Democrat establishment nominated their candidate in 2016. President Goldman Sachs staffed his cabinet with Wall Street bankers and governed like an establishment insider on most issues. Speaker Pelosi, the consummate insider, still runs the House. Yet as the slow burn in the GOP exploded into Trump, so too will populism explode in the Democrat party.

The Guardian: Why the populist wave is setting the tone for Democratic candidates
Now Trump has become emblematic of the swamp he once promised to drain. The president has given tax cuts to America’s wealthiest, given his family White House portfolios, stacked his cabinet with friends and donors with a combined net worth estimated to be worth over $4bn, and overseen an administration that some historians argue is the most corrupt America has endured since the 1920s.

“All that is perfect terrain for a leftwing populist to pounce,” said Michael Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of a book on American populism.
Add hatred of the media. The media made all sorts of respectable people look like absolute fools over Russiagate. Can anyone seriously trust media outlets after this epic disaster? Institutional collapse will swiftly follow. The major media is going the way of the cassette tape and the brick-and-mortar bookstore. Independent journalism and social media exploded in 2016 and they will gain even more strength following Russiagate's conclusion. The establishment won't go down without a fight though. It tried inventing the "fake news" moniker to delegitimize social media and independent journalism, only to see the name stick to them within a week. Social media censorship has exploded in the past two years as establishment institutions try to gain control over free thought, free expression and actual journalism. All the while the establishment went all in on the ultimate "fake news", a coup attempt by narrative.

I don't expect the "far-left" and "far-right" will find common ground and unite in 2020, but they will be hitting against common enemies. The media is in deep trouble, and if the populists on the left can get a candidate such as Bernie nominated, the campaign will be about who can best deliver on Trump's core 2016 promises. Bashing Drug companies, Big Tech, the media and banks/Federal Reserve, along with anti-immigration, anti-trade and healthcare reform in the direction of socialized medicine, will be the winning issues. Even if there is no political fusion, there will be a new center in American politics. The Narrative, the controlled conversation and manufactured consent created by the media, is finished.

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