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egbertowillies

(4,293 posts) Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:09 AM 16 hrs ago

Republican Analyst Infers: Trump Governs Like a Communist Central Planner

Republican analyst Marc Short exposes Trump’s communist-style control over the economy. GOP rhetoric collapses as Trump governs like a central planner, not a capitalist.

Blog Post: https://egberto.substack.com/p/republican-analyst-infers-trump-governs

Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/politicsdoneright/episodes/Republican-Analyst-Infers-Trump-Governs-Like-a-Communist-Central-Planner-e3a38kg/a-ac7vhbv

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Republican Analyst Infers: Trump Governs Like a Communist Central Planner (Original Post) egbertowillies 16 hrs ago OP

Not true at all...he governs like a classical monarch Prairie Gates 16 hrs ago #1

Exactly. markodochartaigh 16 hrs ago #2

Short is sleaze. czarjak 15 hrs ago #3

The Repukes got rolled be Grump more than the Dems Gum Logger 3 hrs ago #4

K&R UTUSN 2 hrs ago #5

Prairie Gates

(6,605 posts)

1. Not true at all...he governs like a classical monarch

Reply to egbertowillies (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:12 AM

16 hrs ago

Communist central planning aspired to some rationality.

markodochartaigh

(4,509 posts)

2. Exactly.

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:19 AM

16 hrs ago

Trump, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao are all authoritarians politically. But their economic policies are different (at least in so much as Trump can be said to have a coherent economic policy other than theft.)