The Ruling Class’s Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours
The Ruling Classs Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours
October 14, 2016
by Paul Street
Much, maybe most, of the nations corporate, financial, and imperial establishment loathes Donald Trump. Whens the last time one of the corporate medias presidential debate moderators actually argue with one of the two major party presidential contenders, as did the wealthy ABC News reporter Martha Raddatz (enraged by Trumps lack of enthusiasm for a United States military confrontation with Russia in Syria) last Sunday?
More than fifty Republican national security elites have joined several top Republican office-holders, a good number of typically Republican newspaper editorial boards, and the liberal New York Times editors in proclaiming Trump too stupid, sexist, juvenile, racist, volatile, ignorant, and vicious to be trusted with the keys to the White House.
The master classs fear and loathing of Trump one of their own, sort of can be detected in the normally Republican-leaning corporate elite. A recent Wall Street Journal report finds that not a single solitary Fortune 100 chief executive has endorsed Trump or donated to his campaign. Hillary Clinton has accepted campaign contributions funds from 11 of these corporate captains. Four years ago, just five F-100 CEOs gave to Obama while a while nearly a third donated to Mitt Romney.
In a recent Times editorial, the Wall Street executive Steve Ratter (the slimy financier Obama put in charge of his Wall Street-friendly auto bailout) noted the paradox of the super-wealthy business mogul Trumps stark unpopularity with those in his own exclusive class:
He has spent his entire career among business executives and yet that constituency is voting with hard cash that he should not be president no Republican presidential hopeful in memory has been so unpopular in the business community At a board meeting two weeks ago, I chatted separately with two prominent Republican businessmen, One, the chief executive of a Fortune 100 company, said that he had never voted for a Democrat but couldnt support Trump. The other a private equity investor who had voted Democratic only once, said that he was so scared of a Trump presidency that he has donated every cent possible under the campaign finance rules to Hillary Clinton (S. Rattner, Trump, The Next Big Short, NYT, October 10, 2016, A21).
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/14/the-ruling-classs-hatred-of-trump-is-different-than-yours/
apcalc
(4,465 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Sick and tired of nutty leftists repeating this bullshit.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)While our goals may differ I can enjoy the opposition of the wealthy against this demagogue. We need a vast coalition who are against him just as we need one equally enthusiastic for our candidate Sec Hillary Clinton.
orwell
(7,775 posts)...seems to hate Hillary more than the Drumpf.
I've kind of had it with the false equivalency of the loony left.
LisaM
(27,820 posts)I used to like reading that site, but it's been ridiculous for years now.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Also, Martha Raddatz had every right to ask Trump if he had the same foreign policy as his goddamn running mate.
Fuck Counterpunch and their latent Trumpism.