Command economies

"Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA."


The whole "hereby ordered" thing was the starting part to me. Not saying that Trump craves a complete command economy. But he has some scary-arse tendencies and he's definitely on the spectrum.

Command economies come in different shapes and sizes. You don't have to go all Bolshevik Lenin socialist.

You can go the fascist route and still have shop owners and factory owners. But in the process strong arm. Pick winners and losers. Choose who to work with and who to bury. Russia is trending towards a control/kleptocracy economy. Be friendly with some oligarchs and bury the rest.

In this regard Trump definitely is on the fascist spectrum. Then again, however, Obama's bank bailouts were also on the fascist spectrum. Winners and losers were picked. Grin and bear it. America's WWII economy also was full-blown fascist.


That's why it's important to call out fascist and un-American tendencies whenever you see it. It's nothing personal against Trump. I think that he's a giant pansy and has the emotional intelligence of a 16 year old, but Trump doesn't give me any strong or adverse emotional reaction. We only have either 1 more or 5 more years of this mania. This too shall pass!!!