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In what way is Trump communist? I can see the comparisons to Hitler, given that both are genocidal fascists, but if Trump was like Stalin and Mao the US Empire would no longer exist and a new socialist state would be in its place. Indigenous peoples would have their land back, and tech billionaires would be subject to the firing squad.
Not communist, a tyrant that quite literally quots Stalin and Mao without realizing while demonizing the News, just as Mao and Stalin demonized the news. Mao managed to put into place the powers that now are the basis of the Chinese surveillance state, just as trump is trying to do right now by strong arming tech bros.
Stalin and Mao were both committed communists. How is Trump quoting them? Is the context the same as when Stalin and Mao said them? Trump undeniably serves Statesian finance and tech capital, Stalin and Mao served the proletariat and peasantry.
That's a bit debatable; but I'll give you that. However they're still very much tyrannical dictators.
Both Stalin & Mao called the news (especially criticism of them directly) "enemies of the people", it was a Hallmark of their rain.
Not true, Trump serves himself and nothing but himself. No matter whatever he my say or try to make it seem otherwise. He's purposely making promises to massive corporations to help gain wealth and power, then taking them by the balls and stabbing them in the back.
Neither Stalin nor Mao were "tyrannical dictators," even the CIA said Stalin was closer to a "captain of a team" than an iron-fisted tyrant:
From Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership.
As for Stalin and Mao "hating the news," this is similarly wrong. Stalin and Mao opposed bourgeois media, essentially outlets like Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, where CIA-funded reporters would blast propaganda from the west into socialist countries. News was still reported on, even Statesian reporters like Anna Louise Strong would meet with Stalin, Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, and more.
As for Trump, he is a billionaire. He serves his class, and the ones who fund him, imperialists and tech giants. This is why he took Elon Musk, Boeing execs, and more to the PRC and tried to get a good deal (which failed). Trump isn't "trying to consolidate power," he wants profits, which come from advancing the interests of finance and tech capital. When you erase class analysis, life appears to be an absurdity.