This behavior - what we see from Trump and his minions - is a cultural game changer.

[tomp]

38. I know this is a bit off topic but...

...fuck eisenhower! he (and truman and kennedy) colluded with the dulles brothers in cold war criminality that was essentially an enemy-making machine of the highest order that we are still feeling the blowback from today. All for the sake of feeding the MIC and multinational corps.

I think the main difference with *rump is that the immoral ugliness of the american imperialist system is out in the open. The shit that *rump is trying to get away with now is the same shit that has gone on behind the scenes for at least the last 100+ years. That, in a sense, is a yuuuge difference and no difference at all. Now we are simply being forced to perceive the ugliness that has been there all along. as zipper predicted, we are now looking at the back wall of the theater after the curtains are drawn back and all the props are removed.

concentration of power, wealth, and corruption always leads to revolution. we now know what the usurpation of democracy looks like. we will have to see how the masses respond.