6 theses for the early days of the Trump administration

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• Political forces, including those of the deep state, whose opposition to Trump are based on his connection with Putin should be regarded with a suspicion equal to that with which we regard the new administration itself.
• It is not the task of the working class to question the credentials of the new emperor. Rather it will need to unearth its internationalist roots and begin to dismantle the empire.
• Everything points to the absence of any new information behind Trump's actions so far. Decisions are based on strategies that appear to date from before the election and, some, long before that. Events will, soon I think, sharpen the contradictions between those strategies and the real world and it seems that the White House will be very slow to adapt its response if it does at all.
• The daily pantomime in the oval office has little to do with the text of the signed documents and everything to do with the display of Trump's magnificent signature.
• Trump's instinctive and immutable grasp of the bedrock of American nationalism protected him from the Democrats' assault on his qualifications. For all his deafness to the proper tones of governance it protects him still. His hold on power will only be loosened by a challenge based on the bedrock, socialist interests of the working class.
• The division of labor now holding power in Washington: Congress shall enact the immiseration of the working class and the White House shall allocate the resulting squeezings.