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I'm not disagreeing that this is an important explanation of this fresh business support for Trump or that there is a convergence of interest here. Trump certainly has no problem with playing the role of crushing professional workers, certainly in the Civil service.
I just think its important to distinguish which one is the "Trumpism". I also think its important that this is in large part a rationalization in the face of the durability and depth of Trump's core support.
To compare, business willingness to support Hitler in 1932 and 1933 had Nazism's mass support as a basis, not as a drive of that mass support. While lending that support didn't put them in the driver's seat but instead collapsed the framework which made them so dominate before casting their lot in.
I’m not an expert in this but I thought big industrialists supported Hitler well back into the 1920s when Nazis were just street thugs breaking communist strikes. Documented in Daniel Guerin’s Fascism and Big Business.
Feb 4, 2026 22:05I've been meaning to look at that.
There was always support, the question is the extent of the support. Just as there was business support for Trump 1. The analogy is for the uptick of support in both cases, not overall business support.
