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Trump exposing political decay in US: Analyst

Saturday, 20 February 2016 2:37 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 20 February 2016 2:36 AM ]

Donald Trump is uncovering the decaying US political system, says Draitser.

US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is bringing to light the political decay in America, despite adopting a fascistic rhetoric, says an American geopolitical analyst.

Speaking to Press TV on Friday, geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser said in spite of his “fascistic rhetoric and scapegoating of immigrants,” Trump has been telling the truth with regards to the US foreign policy, particularly the 2003 invasion of Iraq under the former president George W. Bush’s administration.

“One has to sit back and laugh and really enjoy the political theater that Trump is putting forward for the American people because, in fact, Trump has made a number of absolutely correct claims and those that can be backed up historically and can be backed up by factual documentation,” he noted.

Trump rightly pointed to the fact that Bush took the country into the “disastrous” Iraqi war, the consequences of which are still troubling the US today, the analyst noted.

Draitser argued that Trump is doing a “free service” to those who stand against such American policies by attacking the Bush family.

The founder of stopimperialism.org said the Republican establishment is pushing back against Trump, adding, “it is quite interesting now that a Republican candidate, the leading candidate, the front-runner for the Republican nomination is in fact throwing the entire Republican under the bus,” he explained.

The Republican Party is at war with itself and “in fact Donald Trump is, perhaps in many ways, the leading investigator of that war,” Draitser noted.

“We have to sit back and relax and enjoy all of this as these politicians and political superstars such as Donald Trump these days, as they eat each other, as they cannibalize their own positions,” he continued.

“He is showing for the world the political decay that exists in the United States,” Draitser said.

In his finishing remarks, the analyst said Washington’s belligerent policies against countries such as Russia and Iran “are leading the United States and leading the world into a disastrous direction.”

“It is not Trump we should be focused on, it is the phenomenon of the political, moral and ethical bankruptcy of the Unite States that we should focus on,” he concluded.

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