Trump Betrays his Base Again: Unleashes His Inner Globalist During Illegal Immigration Talk

by Scott Creighton

For two years this website has been warning it’s readers that President Trump is no populist. That his campaign rhetoric was a scam like the many others he ran back in the day when he was simply a silver-spooner businessman who’s daddy gave him a fortune, a future and the fame he parlayed into a fake-reality TV show which was the only thing he really knew how to do: pretend to be a big time businessman.

Over the course of the past year, President Trump has flip-flopped on one campaign promise after another just like many other presidents before him. And just like all the others, the turn is always in the direction that favors neoliberal globalization. Obama did it. “W” did it. Clinton did it. Ever since “Poppy” Bush said “read my lips” those of us who are old enough to have heard his promise with our own ears have become tone deaf to the pleadings of wannabe leaders of all flavors.

Or at least we should have.

Whether it’s his promise to end ObamaCare in “the first day in office” or his non-interventionist foreign policy (“let Russia and Syria fight ISIS”) or his promise to “drain the swamp” and “lock her up”… there hardly seems to be a populist promise Donald Trump has made good on. Even his tax reform program served the interests of Big Business and the super rich at the expense of the middle class.

Trump has cut regulations making profits easier for Big Business. He has signed an executive order allowing Big Oil a free hand when it comes to their leaky pipelines. He has bombed a number of civilians overseas with the same drone program he used to criticize Obama for using. He opened the doors of the White House to Goldman Sachs to a degree that no president in the past has ever done. And he has stuffed billionaires into offices where they could undermine the government programs they are running like it’s going out of style even though we know that neoliberalism, the Washington Consensus, will never go out of style.

President Trump’s White House serves the interests of Big Business like few others have done in the past. You can put him right up there with Maggie Thatcher or Augusto Pinochet or Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton if you like. Wall Street indicators tell you his is a historically anti-populist administration. The stock market doesn’t rush to all-time highs when a real “man of the people” is in office, a political novice can tell you that.

With all of those betrayals of his base (and more) in the record books, perhaps the most ruthless and damning happened just yesterday with a mere 10 days left of his freshman year.

“Trump repeatedly expressed support for DACA in the meeting, but at times left lawmakers confused as to whether he stood by his conditions.

Reflecting the views of fellow Democrats, as well as a few Republicans, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California encouraged Trump to support “a clean DACA bill” and save his immigration crackdown proposals for later, comprehensive legislation…

“What about a clean DACA bill now with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure?” Feinstein asked him.

“I have no problem,” Trump replied. “We’re going to do DACA and then we can start immediately on the phase two, which would be comprehensive.”

… Members of both parties say that only Trump, given his own anti-immigration stands and the unflinching support of his populist base, can provide the political cover that Republicans need to support measures protecting people who came to the country illegally.

Trump, in seeking to seem the flexible deal-maker, even acknowledged a border wall doesn’t need to be 2,000 miles long because of “nature”: “You have mountains and you have a river, you have a violent river.”

Trump resisted efforts by McCarthy, the House Republican leader, to get him to commit to the specific elements in a bill he’d sign.

“I’ll sign whatever immigration bill they send me,” Trump said.” L.A. Times

In a move that was clearly designed to counter narratives about his behavior stemming from a ridiculous book, President Trump allowed the press to sit in on a meeting he held yesterday with leaders of the House and Senate relating to the upcoming deadline on the DACA program. That’s the “Dreamers Act” that allowed up to 800,000 illegals brought here as children to remain in the country so they could be used by Big Business as cheap labor.

For those of you who don’t know… those of you who claim to oppose neoliberal globalization in all its forms but still support Comprehensive Immigration Reform and the so-called Dreamers Act… open borders and the free flow of labor from one nation to another is part and parcel of neoliberal economic ideology. It’s one of the three main pillars of it.

“It is true that, as against reversal, current trends in the three pillars of globalization – trade, investment, migration – are all positive… Despite many political challenges, evident from the growth and diversification of sources of remittances, cross-border migration is not stopping…” The Wire, Dec. 25, 2017

“Migration and the concomitant labour questions are key aspects of the global political economy. … In the age of neoliberalism, international migration and forced labour form a predominant modality of human mobility under conditions of extreme vulnerability.” Migration and Labour under Neoliberal Globalization, May 2015

Migration is referred to as a form of “flexible work-forces”  in the neoliberal economic ideology which is the preferred economic ideology of such globalist organizations as the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Bank for International Settlements to name but a few.

It basically means taking desperate people from one location and injecting them into another so that their desperation for work and sustenance will compel them to undermine local wage and benefit structures, making them more economically viable to employers, which ultimately serve Big Business’ interests and no other.

It is in fact, a true race to the bottom where desperate people perform profit generating tasks for businesses big and small for less than their competition and it is usually accompanied by a sense of tribalism since the migrating population will tend to be from a different nationality and often of a different race altogether (a minority) than the indigenous work-forces that see the intrusion as an assault on their way of life and the quality of life of their families which they support.

It pits displaced workers verses the indigenous workers and like scabs crossing a strike line, it often produces anger and hostility within the affected areas. Resentment, overt acts of racism and violence are often the net results while the businesses continue to profit from the conflict.

Because of the racial aspect of the conflict, it is easy for apologists of neoliberal globalization to label all who oppose it as “racists” and “bigots” as we have seen many times in the recent past here in the States. This discussion-ending accusation will certainly accelerate in the coming weeks as Trump and congress move to legalize millions upon millions of illegal workers now living in the country. Lost in the debate will be the decreasing standard of living of millions of natural born citizens or legal immigrants who played by the rules and came to this country as we would go to any other.

Screams of “RACIST!” from the ignorant self-satisfied “progressives” and their complicit neoliberal neocons will continue drown out the desperate pleas for consideration from our working class neighbors while Wall Street continues to thrive unabated as the sole beneficiary of the chaos… and that is exactly how it is meant to work.

Last night, after Trump’s performance at the meeting, Fox “News” anchors began freely talking about things like “globalization” and how Trump now seems to be on-board with the plan. They avoided the term “neoliberal” as if their careers depended on it. They had no choice. It’s obvious now and they figured they needed to get out in front of this aspect of the development before others like myself addressed it.

They wanted to control the direction of the narrative so they brought in talking heads who tried to explain how Trump had ALWAYS been telling his fan-base that he was indeed a “globalist”

Tucker Carlson was the only talking head on the network who said openly that this move was indeed a betrayal and an acquiescence to Trump’s globalist masters. He is the only reporter on the MSM outlets I have seen so far to talk openly about the real objective behind open borders and “flexible work-forces” in terms of the service to Big Business at the expense of the working class.

Carlson went further directly after that segment to explain to his viewers (paraphrase)

“For all the conservatives out there who have been taught from a young age that Big Government was the real enemy and the real threat to our freedoms… the truth is, it’s Big Business that has become Big Brother and not the government”

A remarkable admission on Fox “News” to be sure but you certainly wont hear anything like it coming from the fake-left outlets, the corporatist outlets, like MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times.

Fascism ladies and gentlemen. The beginnings of discussions about Big Business and the Business Party and neoliberal economic ideology coming from Fox “News” of all places.

Remarkable indeed.

Trump’s full-globalist turn was certainly not unexpected by this writer or a few others out there. Saw it coming a mile away. Unfortunately he will retain the support of a few of his base as they can see no wrong in his John Galt-like visage.

The worship of wealth is an addiction for some… as is the hatred of it by others, I suppose.

It all depends on which beatitudes you subscribe to I guess.

Regardless, Trump’s little attempt to undermine concerns about his fitness for office yesterday seems to have backfired. He exposed himself as nothing more than the next flavor of neoliberal globalist president like Obama, Bush and Clinton before him.

The takeaway might be that statement from Tucker when he said conservative and libertarians need to understand that Big Gubmint ain’t the problem anymore… it’s Big Business… and for that… he should be given some credit.

Of course, he should have been talking about it for the past decade like I have… or the past 5 decades like so many others that have come before have.

But that’s ok.

When Trump had his ObamaCare moment, exposing his truer nature like President Peace Prize did all those years ago, his inner globalist came out and nothing, nothing, can put that genie back in the bottle.

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