The US "Capitol Hill" quoted a news from the Axios News Network to expose a new scandal of Trump. Since Trump went through an impeachment trial in the Senate, his political allies have been gathering a "blacklist" of people who were unfaithful to Trump or were fired.
This mysterious "blacklist" does not seem to be out of thin air. When Trump participated in the midterm elections, the Washington Post quoted unnamed sources as saying that Trump has mysterious and powerful "political allies" outside the White House, the most "heavy" of which is Virginia Thomas, the wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. After this news was exposed, the Democratic Party criticized Trump's use of executive power to interfere in the judiciary, which is an out-and-out "abuse of presidential power." At the same time, the whistleblowers also said that these "iron fan allies" worked hard to find people who supported Trump to replace the "unfaithful people", and the current US ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, was also included in the list of "State Department officials who should be fired" for "disobedience".
From Trump's "frequent actions" in the past six months, it seems that the role of this "blacklist" can be glimpsed. After all, after an impeachment trial in the Senate, Trump "fired" acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire, and U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vendelman was also fired. This series of "small actions" was interpreted by the media as Trump's retaliatory actions.
Whether or not this "blacklist" exists, and no matter how many ulterior secrets are hidden on this list, it cannot change the fact that a hard "political alliance" has been formed in the US political arena.
Why did such a political alliance arise? The reason behind this is that the current US ideology is becoming more and more divided, racial and ethnic diversity has led to the further tearing of social consensus, and the widening gap between rich and poor and the import of refugees have become more and more critical forces affecting the stability of American society. In this case, it is difficult for a single politician to promote policies on his own, nor can he "stand alone" to play a good government position, so he must seek the help of the "alliance" and increase his momentum and strength in the process of "hugging the group to keep warm".
Obviously, after Trump successfully entered the White House, he also formed his own team without stopping. This team sounds good to some called "think tanks", but its essence is still the product of "fat-sharing politics" - large consortiums and capital chaebols fund real money and silver in the early stage to help Trump get elected, and in the later stage, as a return of "courtesy exchanges", Trump will naturally repay these "gold lords", whether it is directly entrusted with heavy responsibilities in government departments, or through the "revolving door" system to help them cross the political and business circles, which is the performance of Trump's "retribution".
Is such a political alliance reliable? Not really. After all, in the rules of the American political game, "the iron chaebol, the president of the flowing water" is already an open secret. According to the consistent "bloodthirsty" characteristics of the US capital chaebols, they will naturally not easily "tear their faces" in order to safeguard their vested interests. However, the precondition for this kind of "superficial harmony" is that the president, as a political figure in front of the stage, should be "obedient enough" and even to a certain extent "obey the words" of these "financial lords" behind the scenes, so as to ensure the smooth delivery of their interests. On the contrary, because the Obamacare plan of "robbing the rich and helping the poor" increased the medical burden of the middle class, it led to the "eclipse" of the black president in the history of the United States, and the Democratic candidate Sanders promised during the campaign that if elected president, he would raise taxes on the rich in the United States, which made the turnout dismal. In a word, "if you go along with it, you will prosper, and if you go against it, you will die", and the president who seems to be powerful is actually just a victim of the political alliance and the plutocratic alliance.
Today, the "political alliance" constructed by Trump seems to be at risk of "getting out of control". Whether it is the "group ridicule" induced by the "US-Mexico border wall", or the two-party scolding war triggered by the "Sino-US trade war"; whether it is the idea of buying Greenland being denounced as "fanciful", or the "tree-falling lemur scattering" during the review of the impeachment case, it can be seen that Trump is gradually marginalized by the former "iron-blooded allies", and it seems difficult to predict whether he will face the fate of "being abandoned".
Why? Because Trump's various practices are gradually deviating from the vested interests of the top big plutocrats in the United States. Strict border control strategies, increasingly tightening travel laws, and visas to the United States can be seen that the United States is gradually moving towards the old road of "closing off the country", which is tantamount to "cutting off people's financial roads" for the chaebols who are eager to globalize capital. The widely criticized "Sino-US trade war", Trump's sharp increase in tariffs, not only increased the cost of the chaebols to carry out global trade and international business, but also led to further profits being eaten away by taxes, so there was a lot of complaint about the trade barriers set by Trump.
In addition, during his term of office, Trump repeatedly "willfully withdraws from the group" and announced the withdrawal of the United States from important international organizations almost without warning, which also caught these chaebols who made profits by this by surprise, and naturally complained about this "particularly unreliable" mr. president, believing that he lacked political wisdom and had no political experience, and was completely relying on "head-slapping decision-making" and "Twitter governance", and it was difficult to assume the presidency.
This seemingly "indestructible" political alliance seems to have taken more than half a century to establish, but it often takes only a moment to collapse because of the "exhaustion of profits and dispersion".
Text: Northwest wind