David Frum: Donald Trump Goes Full Fredo

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29. Stephen Miller's interview this morning reminded me greatly of the rhetoric of a certain German

dictator whose name I will not use.

What the original dictator did was to impose a rigid, racist, hateful rule by a few people on his nation using the promise that he would take the side of the common man, the man who had suffered through inflation followed by debt followed by few jobs and low pay for those jobs, the hopeless of his Germany at that time.

That is what Trump did. He promised that he would help out and rescue the abandoned, the working people who really want a share of the prosperity the very wealthy enjoy. The promise is just hot air, but it wins votes. The programs that Trump and the Republicans are promoting will do nothing for the working people of our country. Nothing meaningful at all.

Those who lost their homes, their jobs, their savings, their union, their future thanks to world trade, automation and, in their view, immigration saw no hope in the Democratic Party. They voted, along with traditional Republicans, for Trump.

Now Trump did not win the majority of the popular vote. But he did get enough votes in states that were at one time strongly Democratic to win in the electoral college.

And he did it using the kind of promises that were made in Germany to a dispossessed, struggling, indebted (Germany owed war debt; we owe personal and government debt) people.

Trump's win is the Democrats' loss. You cannot serve the working American people and also serve the oligarchs. Neither the Democrats nor Trump can do that.

Democrats can offer real solutions to the problems of their time, but they have to offend a few wealthy donors to do it. And if the donors don't understand that it is in the best interest of the American people and of America that Democrats speak out strongly against the interests of the greedy wealthy, then we will continue to have Trump as our leader.