It is hilarious to see the American political establishment disconcerted by The Donald, as he makes a mockery of the system. Last week, US President Barack Obama castigated Trump's presidential ambitions by affecting a pose of seriousness and gravitas, saying that being Commander-in-Chief was "not a reality-TV show."
The pontifications from Obama and the US establishment in Washington and the media over Trump are nauseating. Washington's reckless warmongering in the Middle East and towards Russia and China disqualify it from making any lofty pronouncements about Trump.
Recall that a few weeks ago, Trump's campaign team came up with an attack ad on Democrat contender Hillary Clinton in which Russian leader Vladimir Putin was portrayed as a villain laughing at a Clinton White House.
Before that snide attack, Trump had lavished praise on Putin as a great leader.
The point is that Trump's anti-establishment image is just that -- an ersatz image for marketing the next president of the US. His candidacy is more a sign of how degenerate and dangerous US politics have become.
It can be reasonably argued that all American presidents within recent living memory, since John F Kennedy, have been nothing but puppets for corporate masters and US military might upon which predatory American capitalism depends.
Notwithstanding occasional progressive-sounding soundbites, a President Donald Trump will turn out to be just one more pathetic pernicious puppet in the White House. But this maverick -- who views everything in grubby dollar signs -- could prove to be even more reckless than all other predecessors.
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