I was talking to a friend yesterday and he made a rather cunning point about the Republicans min the USA. Attempting the explain the absurd economic policies they are pursuing he said their entire existence is to fight the socialist ideals they dislike. They do not realise once they have got rid of them, in addition to ruining their country, they will have no strength in their existence remaining. It reminds me of the Trotskyites of the 1970s only existing to fight capitalism. There is a kernel of truth in his words though, that the Trump Reich-house wraps its wholly negative approach to the world and its own people in distressed robes of fake glory.
When Cecil Rhodes said one had won the lottery of life by being born an Englishman he didn’t conceptualise that the empire was built on theft from masses of the rest of the world. Trump’s attempted theft from the rest of the world will go the same way.