Column | The Putin Trumps of Trumps Revolution

Just like his spirit of Putin did a quarter of a century ago in Russia, President Trump is now putting a foundation The Kleptocratic Mafias which he has in mind for the US. Although Trump works faster than Putin, their both methodology already has seven characteristics in common. 1. Get the Ancien Régime the blame. Trump cannot do without Biden, as Putin still warns of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Because those predecessors through their tentacles – Trump thinks of Zensky –The new power sabotaging, remains offered vigilance. Allies can turn out to be traitors. 2. Create constitutional crises around the separation of powers. Putin had When he took office in 2000 Promised that he would rule through ‘vertical power’. At the end of his first term Local democracy was abolished. In 2020, Putin was ready, thanks in part to Superen Jurger Zorkin, who has been blowing with all the winds for three decades. Trump has had since his sworn 123 Executive orders signed. Although the Supreme Court sputtered to El Salvador after an illegal deportation, the Minister of Interior Security mock In turn by being filmed pontifically for the bars of the prison camp there. 3. Intimidate critics by squeezing them. Trump immediately started to blackmail unwelcome media companies and law firms with toaster if they continued to do their work. Just like in Russia, most businessmen went knees. Putin needed a year to get the first TV program off the air and three years before he is the first Tycoon (Chodorkovski) dared to liquidate. 4. Refread history. Two months ago, Trump wore the Smithsonian Institute by decree on only America’s ‘greatness’. Putin took seven years before his revision of the historyanon and rehabilitation of Stalin got contours. 5. Set civil servants to tell colleagues. Officials at the US Department of Foreign Affairs have been instructed to give colleagues who ‘anti-Christian prejudices« Have. Trump is lagging behind. order of the day. In the first year of the war 2022 300,000 Russians Declaration against a fellow citizen. Recently a pediatrician sentenced to 5.5 years in prison After the mother of a patient had left her on political-patriotic grounds. 6. Blow your own superhuman work ethic. No revolution without superhuman enthusiasm for the plan. In the Soviet Union that was personalized by miner Stachanov, who would have mined no less than 127 tons of coal in 1935. In Washington the imagery is more modern, but comparable. « Every cabinet member is a rock star, » said Trumps spokesperson Karoline Leavitt after A Government Council In which the ministers said they had achieved all production goals even before they were known. 7. Iconize the leader with a quasi-goddial genius. The final chord of every revolution is a cult in which the leader is adored in word and image as a sporty demigod. The Social-realistic portrait art Van Vanessa Horabuena, who painted a flaming portrait of Trump during the inauguration for an outrageous audience, surpassed the hysteria of Aleksandr Gerasimov during Stalin. The difference is that Putin (all-rounder) pretends that the parapernalia only express the welfare while Trump (golf champion) is less hypocritical and acts with the Maga cult himself.