Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the USNS Harvey Milk would be renamed after a Medal of Honor recipient, saying they "are taking the politics out of ship naming."
I understand this and consider it realism, but now is fundentally different from then because Trump has broken the unspoken covenamt between the capitalist class and the political system. It used to be that contributing to the party’s success guaranteed some favors from the government, but now the favors are only going out to Trump’s sycophants and the benefits of sycophancy are much smaller than the losses due to the financial uncertainty of chaos.
I understand this and consider it realism, but now is fundentally different from then because Trump has broken the unspoken covenamt between the capitalist class and the political system. It used to be that contributing to the party’s success guaranteed some favors from the government, but now the favors are only going out to Trump’s sycophants and the benefits of sycophancy are much smaller than the losses due to the financial uncertainty of chaos.