What could have been: Comrade Trump

Unconditional support for Supreme Leader!

I've said it before, but Trump is kind of like Mao, in that he has that potential to be an upstart who could have appealed to the working class and flipped the board. It's wasted potential though, because he panders to fascists, and because Trump is no Engels or Kropotkin (men who were ruling class, but chose to fight for the common men).

A Trump who was a communist could have harnessed all of that American dissatisfaction at Capitalism and pointed it in the right direction (against the oligarchs). But unfortunately, he loves money too much, and so like every fascist before him, he protects the Capitalist interest by advocating for fascism, pinning the blame for Capitalist Contradictions on scapegoats (so-called wokes, DEI, trans people, China, etc).

God knows the Democrats were useless rightwingers who have never made a single leftist policy in their lives and enabled the far-right whenever possible (leading to the GOP becoming what it is now). It wouldn't even have been a fight, a Communist Trump could have bulldozed the Democrats and the Republicans with little effort because for the first time ever the concerns of the working class would have been addressed for real.

Another interesting thing is how the Chinese have been calling Trump “Comrade Build Country” (建国同志), where “Build Country” (Jianguo 建国) was a common name during the Mao era. Trump’s bombastic activities, which brings to mind certain enthusiastic socialist leaders of the past, definitely gives that vibe. Of course, the Chinese confer him this name because everything Trump does benefits China due to his incompetence.

It’s even funnier, because in Leftist circles, the idea that Trump and Elon Musk are stealth communists deliberately accelerating the collapse of the USA is a funny joke

(jokes aside, Musk and his techbro neo-feudalist peers like Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and JD Vance do very much want to collapse the USA; but this is so they can buy up land and create Network states as personal fiefdoms).

I myself, I have joked many times about awarding the Order of Lenin to Elon Musk because of how much of a bad rep he gives to Billionaires and Oligarchs (thus aiding the cause of the revolution).