Trump promises a revolution — empty rhetoric of course — the promise actually on offer is what inter-war French reactionaries also dreamt of, a restoration of the 19th century order, when the mighty industrial trusts raped the poor and raped the land, and kept workers in line by convincing them that dirty foreigners (then Irish, Italians, and hordes from East Asia) were stealing their jobs — and when that wasn’t enough, the iron fist of strike-breaking, storm-trooping law-and-order would do

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