Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up high-dollar fundraising efforts with less than two months to go until the Iowa caucus begins the 2024 Republican primary, as several major donors show signs of returning to the former president – including those who once called on him to exit the race.
Some observers say the changing view of big financial backers shows a recognition that because Republican voters are sticking with Trump amid his continued controversy and legal troubles, he remains a very real contender for the White House.
Trump is battling a slew of unprecedented criminal charges – all of which he denies – but remains the front-runner in polling.
At the same time, anti-Trump Republican donors have spent millions while scrambling to coalesce behind an alternative candidate to take on the former president and anti-Trump voters remain divided between a handful of challengers.
In Nazi Germany the capitalist class aligned with the fascists against leftists.
One could make a great case that this alliance is what pushed the Nazis to power.
Of course some of the wealthy had misgivings about the rabid anti-semitism being stirred up, but the amorality of capitalism demands profit over everything.
The flood of money in politics is destroying our democracy.
In the Weimar Republic, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Nazi Party were at odds with each other, but there were instances of cooperation between them against the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The KPD viewed the SPD as a greater threat than the Nazis and adopted a policy of “Social-Fascism,” considering social democracy as the “left-wing of fascism” and targeting it even at the expense of fighting the Nazis[4]. This policy changed in 1935 when Stalin called for a “united front” between Communists, Social Democrats, and Liberals, but by then, Hitler had already risen to power[4]. The KPD’s response to the rise of the Nazis was influenced by various factors, including Soviet foreign policy requirements, the party’s Marxist-Leninist outlook, and the Weimar democratic society[5]. Despite occasional cooperation, the Communists and Nazis were fundamentally opposed, and any alliance between them was never complete or fully acknowledged[5].
Citations: [1] Communist Party of Germany - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany [2] Weimar Republic and Nazi Era in East German Perspective - JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/4545834 [3] Communist and Fascist Revolutions in Europe | Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/book/43923/chapter/372382542 [4] How Communists in Germany Allied with Nazis to Destroy Democracy | War History Online https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/communists-allied-with-nazis.html [5] [PDF] THE KPD AND THE NSDAP: A STTJDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL EXTREMES IN WEIMAR GERMANY, 1923-1933 BY DAVIS WILLIAM DAY https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/4102/3/Daycock__KPD-NSDAP-Weimar-Germany.pdf
Reminds of all the leftists out there telling people they’re not going to vote for Biden because the Gaza ceasefire didn’t come fast enough for them.
They’re likely trying to exert political influence on a candidate in a political campaign within the two party system framework.
You know, participating in the democratic process by tying the conditions of their votes to policies.
Otherwise you only have the party dictating the policy of their donors onto the voters.
I mean this the post SpeechNow and Citizens United decision American electoral process, afterall.
It’s less likely to be because they’ve “come around” and like him, and more because if they can’t keep make him the Republican candidate on the ballot, there’s zero chance of them beating Biden.
If Trump isn’t the Republican candidate, then enough of the hardcore MAGAts will either write him in or just not bother voting to pretty much hand Democrats an easy win. On top of that, Trump is exactly the sort of person who, if not made the Republican candidate, very well might run anyway as a third party, splitting the Republican votes even more dramatically and once again ensuring Biden wins.
These Republican donors, even if they “soured” on him after 2020 and Jan 6, would rather have an unstable, idiotic, treasonous narcissist as their president, rather than Biden.
Edit: Clarity
Trump’s running regardless, as becoming president again is his best chance at escaping prison.
Yeah I think it’s more because he’s a narcissist than to escape prison. If he hadn’t tried a coup people would’ve let it go. Presidents can get away with everything but fucking with democracy blatantly.
I think it’s fear of revenge. They are terrified that he’s going to win and if they aren’t on his good side then he will make them suffer for the perceived lack of loyalty.
These big money donors aren’t going to be affected in the least by a status quo pro-corporate Democrat like Biden. They don’t have to spend millions to keep him out of the big seat. So I don’t see how they could be so desperate to keep Biden out of office that they will instead enthusiastically embrace fascism.
Of course, I suppose if you are rich enough fascism really doesn’t hurt you either. What a fucking world we live in.
Exactly. Even if Trump loses, his people will be out there hungry for blood.
They could always park their money somewhere unreachable and flee to a country that is safe to wait it out.
Their desire for the accelerated kleptocracy that conservatives enable (e.g. corporate handouts, subsidies, tax cuts) is stronger than their anti-fascism ever will be.
I’d argue any who “soured” did so to distance themselves, and their brands, from the fallout of conservative terrorism. The reality is that the vast majority of corporations continued donating to the fascist party right through their public and open embrace of fascism.
money doesn’t just tolerate fascism. money prefers fascism. when capitalism is in trouble, do you think it makes more sense for capitalists to
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align with leftists and give up a bunch of wealth and power
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quietly fade away
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consolidate their power into a political movement that uses extrajudicial violence to maintain the status quo
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Sounds good. Now let’s get him into a prison cell.
Let’s make that a huge waste of money.
“Major Donors” this is money talking. If Congress goes full left and stays there, the only thing allowing them to not pay taxes is the right AF Supreme Court. Trump gives them a veto card.
They just have to have their own dictator over there, right? It’ll cost us all so much, the greed, stupidity and hate, we’ll almost wish the iron curtain back so the politicians have an enemy to project on instead of just killing all and everything in their reach.
Trump’s got the cult. The 1 percenters want even more power than they have already, so of course they’ll come around.
They’ll back a literal fascist as long as they think they’ll get a tax cut.
Really exemplifies “Birds of a feather”. The criminals all want to stick together.
