He
campaigned on promises to ‘drain the swamp’ and radically alter
the United States’ course in the world, but not even a week has
passed and President Donald Trump has already made it clear that
he’ll be following a very familiar agenda.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
6 - Serving the establishment, not the people
Many Trump
supporters fell for the same promises of “Hope” and “Change”
that got Obama elected in 2008. While Trump has a unique persona that
sets him apart from prior presidents, his actions so far indicate
that he is willfully following a path laid out for him by the
nation’s wealthiest inhabitants.
Like Obama,
Trump won the presidency through attempts to paint himself as a
maverick, an outsider. The widespread condemnations of Trump from the
U.S. political establishment and the mainstream media were strategic,
granting Trump the ability to appear anti-establishment even when he
advances the goals of the establishment.
“This
strategic antagonism has given Trump the ability to use the press and
U.S. political elite as a foil. This allows him to negate his critics
in a way unimaginable in previous administrations,” Robbie
Martin warned.
This
unconventional setup is just the latest iteration of the public cover
needed for a U.S. president to advance the agenda of American
oligarchs while convincing his supporters and large swaths of the
American public that he’s really working for them.
Source
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http://www.mintpressnews.com/maverick-lapdog-trump-already-serving-agenda-americas-oligarchs/224413/
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