{"id":289514,"date":"2025-03-10T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289514"},"modified":"2025-03-09T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:45:47","slug":"how-the-warfare-state-paved-the-way-for-a-trumpist-autocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/how-the-warfare-state-paved-the-way-for-a-trumpist-autocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>A True Cost of War<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>27 Feb 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it goes virtually unmentioned in mainstream media and political discourse. That silence is particularly notable among Democratic leaders, who have routinely joined in bipartisan messaging to boost the warfare state that fueled the rise of Trumpism.<\/p>\n<p>Trump first ran for president nearly a decade and a half after the \u201cGlobal War on Terror\u201d began in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks. The crusade\u2019s allure had worn off. The national mood was markedly different than in the era when President George W. Bush <a href=\"https:\/\/georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\/news\/releases\/2001\/09\/20010914-2.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">insisted<\/a> that \u201cour responsibility\u201d was to \u201crid the world of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/how-the-warfare-state-paved-the-way-for-a-trumpist-autocracy\/\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; tomdispatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A True Cost of War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":269935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[3143,1817,1126,1050,1978,2200,1594,2686,492,481],"class_list":["post-289514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-militarism","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-militarized-police","tag-us-empire","tag-war-economy","tag-war-of-terror","tag-war-on-terror","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289515,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289514\/revisions\/289515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}