ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Trump reloading — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
President-elect is picking adherents of his Make America Great Again gospel, prioritising loyalty over competence
The impending return of Donald Trump to the White House — with an almost lily-white team of cabinet appointees — follows a clear victory that represents one of the greatest political comebacks in history. The twice-impeached Trump is the first convicted felon to become president.
Trump is certainly a phenomenon. However, he is more like the wicked witch who has picked seven political dwarfs than like Snow White. He has been able to convince a multiracial working class and struggling middle-class to vote against their own interests through alchemic appeals to improving their economic condition by launching tariff wars and deporting most of the 13-million illegal immigrants that are in the US. ..
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