Summary
Donald Trump is reshaping U.S. culture through a propaganda-driven strategy that rebrands symbols and controls narratives.
His actions include renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, issuing numerous executive orders, pressuring media outlets, and taking over cultural institutions like the Kennedy Center.
These moves, aimed at consolidating power and curbing dissent, mirror tactics used by authoritarian regimes, as the administration uses symbolism, legal challenges, and media manipulation to control public discourse.
That’s a very one-sided take. It leaves out one of the most important factors, the media and their role in censoring and magnifying news to fit the political identities of their consumers. Had they been accurately reporting on Trump’s actions and results first-term, no human being in their right minds would have elected him a second time.
You realize the first ones to boost trump was Hillary and the DNC…
Right?
Like I shouldn’t assume people lived thru it, it was 9 years ago, you might not have been paying attention to politics then.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-before-presidential-run-2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-ahead-of-republicans-2016-launch/2015/08/05/e2b30bb8-3ae3-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-clinton-donald-trump-phone-call-report-2015-8?op=1
They knew people didn’t like Hillary and that nothing would change that.
So they found the worst person possible and talked him into running to make Hillary be the best choice. And still fucked it up.
Hillary is about the only thing you are right in. Who runs a candidate who has been so publicly cuckolded (cuckqueaned to be precise) to such a position of authority? Clinton was literally ran out of the office because of it (of course, history proved it only matters for one party).
Yet, even your last statement is wrong and conspiratorial. They ran Hillary because they considered Trump to be a joke candidate. And in that election, it actually made sense that Trump won because disillusionment with the system pushed people to vote for joke candidates. You are trying to suggest “dem party insiders” “found the worst person possible and talked him into running”.
But big money was trying to push corrupt influence into the US government long before through movements like the Tea Party that preceded MAGA. You aren’t completely wrong, the US should have switched to a representative democracy instead of winner takes all if it wanted reforms long ago. Even in the now propaganda laden Germany its nature as a representative democracy is still helping to prevent the fascists from taking over again. It’s not invincible, but it helps add choice and resistance against fascist tendencies.