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I’ve been contemplating posting this all day. Every time I criticize Donald Trump, I get heat for days. But some people need to hear this. Trump needs to earn more votes. He can’t do that by doing the same old thing. He can’t do that if he keeps awful...

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SNYDER: The balance between the oligarchy and fascism is different in Russia and the US. I think Putin, unlike Trump, actually believes in some world beyond the visible world. In which what’s true is will and there’s a mystical past which contains the essence of the nation. And by taking violent action in the present, we can return to that mystical past. I think Putin actually believes stuff like that, and in that sense, he’s more of a fascist than Trump. For Trump, he says fascist things, he does fascist things, and he certainly has people around him who are fascists. But for him, the balance is different. It’s more about, "I need to make more money." In fairness to Trump, Putin already has $200, $300 billion. Whereas Trump is gonna die a kind of petty billionaire by that scale. Maybe if Trump had $200, $300 billion, he would also have wild fantasies. But anyway, in the world we’re in, that’s difference. For Trump, it’s more about using white supremacy. Trump is happy to have people hurt. And happy to have us be happy that people are hurt, but he’s not willing to do some of the things that Putin is willing to do. Putin has been willing to watch easily a million of his people, probably well over, get killed and maimed in war that Russia is going to lose. Whereas Trump is willing to watch 5 people, or 10, or 15, or 20, maybe 100 people get killed. But no way Trump has wherewithal to say, "We’re going to have a full-scale invasion of another country and hundreds of thousands of you are going to die, but that’s going to be worth it." He just doesn’t believe in anything enough to demand that other people believe in some cause like that. His ability to control his own political future by starting foreign wars is limited because his ability to fight foreign wars is very limited. Because he’s willing to cause pain, but he can’t stomach that much pain, and he can’t really imagine that other people would. Whereas Putin really does think that other people are going to care about Russian glory. Trump doesn’t care about American glory. I don’t think he can really imagine that other people can care about American glory. And so, I think in his case, the oligarchy or his desire to be a rich oligarch is the dominant factor, and it actually constrains his ability to use the more militaristic stuff.

Kate from Kharkiv

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