The strategy #Trump employs to play the system against its own working mechanisms by overwhelming slow administrative processes with a barrage of executive orders has a precursor in economic theory:
Joseph Schumpeter's principle of "creative destruction" - tear down the whole building instead of repairing it to gain new grounds for capital accumulation - served neoliberalism well as long as they could privatize public assets to produce economic growth regardless of the social costs,
but is in the end responsible for the sad state of affairs in global crisis, more economic distress for a growing number of people worldwide, unchecked climate catastrophe and militaristic adventurism rising from the fertile grounds of national chauvinistic reaction to this disaster strategy
#NaomiKlein critizised this concept of destroying the livelihoods of functioning social reproduction all over the world as "The Shock Doctrine", which has found its latest version in the "disruption" ideology of the BigTech-broligarchy.
So the new executive monopoly Trump tries to install in accord with BigTech-billionaires clings onto the idea of a self-enforcing cycle of accelerating the speed of repressive measures thereby weakening any opposition to this challenge by exploiting the already installed logics of social darwinistic subjectivity
- people try to evade the incoming dictatorship to save their skin thereby decreasing the chances of building a united opposition against the new outright fascistic order.
#EzraKlein puts his hope in a working
democratic system where congress and courts would stop this power grab.
I myself doubt that it is enough not to believe Trump and hold onto the separation of powers - imo Trump has already answered the question of power in a very material sense to his advantage. So any opposition to this might need to enforce other measures than just to hope on an outcome where democratic freedom will win.
#executiveorder #fascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s