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I USA har statsvetare och ekonomer länge placerat Donald Trump som anhängare av statskommunism. Att knyta Trump till Kinas version av kommunism började under hans förra presidentperiod. Flera republikaner har tagit avstånd från sin egen president på grund av att han lutar för mycket åt det kommunistiska hållet. I Svensk media har jag inte sett mycket av dessa artiklar men i USA knyts Trump främst på Wall street och andra finansiella centra i USA allt oftare till denna odemokratiska vänsterrörelse. Några axplock från amerikansk media:"Trump’s assault on free-market capitalism is anything but conservative"
"Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.”
Trump’s “State Capitalism … a Hybrid Between Socialism and Capitalism” Won’t Make America Great Again.
"Many free-market economists and business leaders who have long worshipped the free-market ideals of Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand, and Milton Friedman should be aware that their idols would be rolling in their graves right now, as rather than pursue standard laissez-faire conservative economic policies, MAGA has gone Marxist and even, increasingly, Maoist"
"Across each of these five dimensions, one can’t help but think MAGA is going Marxist or full Maoist."
https://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-state-capitalism-hybrid-between-socialism-capitalism-wont-make-america-great-again
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/magas-march-toward-command-economy
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/05/communism-meaning-republicans