I think I’m starting to get what Ivanka means by ‘Make America Great Again’

Last updated on: November 9, 2016 at 1:22 pm by Justin Tse

I think I’m starting to get what Ivanka means by ‘Make America Great Again’ 2016-11-09T13:22:31-07:00 Justin Tse

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No wonder the Trump campaign can brush off every accusation that the Donald is misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, racist, and a philandering trigger-happy opportunist out to scam evangelicals. Ivanka’s father’s language may shock the cocktail party establishment, but it is shocking neither on the job site nor in the board room. The establishment, of course, believes innocently that the Donald actually wants to be the head of the executive branch of government. Therefore, it is shocked (shocked, I tell you!) that he plans to delegate to ‘the most powerful vice president in history‘ all the executive powers of ‘foreign and domestic policy’ while sitting back to ‘make America great again.’ What the establishment does not seem to have taken into account is that the Donald does not in fact intend to be the head of a state, but the president of a private business corporation. And what does the president of a private business corporation do? DREAM BIG, AND BUILD THE HUGEST TOWER THERE IS.

America is that tower, and we the citizens of the United States are the employee-entrepreneurs who will build that tower, which means that everyone who is not in on building that tower (or worse, is hellbent on destroying that tower) is, in a word, fired. The trouble, of course, is that fired people get embittered and may try to start something to bring down your tower from the outside. This is why you need security – and more! In the realm of enterprise, what you might then do is to go after your rivals mercilessly; it is no surprise that Corporate America’s favourite book is Sun Tzu’s Art of War. This is what all that offensive straight-talk is about: building a wall with Mexico and making them pay for it is like security escorting fired employees out of the building and making them pay security, deporting people en masse in the name of protectionism is like a massive layoff for company restructuring, committing war crimes in the Middle East is like utterly decimating rivals in both the formal and (or perhaps, especially) the informal economy.

In light of all of this, those in the establishment simply want to debate at their cocktail parties whether this makes the Donald a ‘fascist.’ A fascist, you see, fits this certain criteria, etc. (but you have to say this with a sort of posh New England accent).

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