Jiang says Trump is exploiting real disillusionment in order to amass personal power, comparing the pattern to the conditions that enabled Hitler's rise.
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Disillusionment
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Trump is using this opportunity. He's using this opportunity of discontentment, disillusionment in order to amass personal power to himself."
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Jiang rejects the label anti-incumbency and says the deeper phenomenon is anti-establishment disillusionment with a political class that seems to represent the same interests regardless of electoral turnover.
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"...Trump is using this opportunity. He's using this opportunity of discontentment, disillusionment in order to amass personal power to himself."
"And that's and that's the great threat, right? So yeah, look, look, look, look, I mean, I just say this, but Hitler would not..."
"politically yeah i don't think it's actually an anti -incumbency trend i think it's just an anti -establishment trend uh anti -political establishment trend..."
"um but violence is definitely like like you know in in uh in the cards right now okay so it's so so i would..."
"...um so so so i think there's just incredible frustration incredible disillusionment and um i think there's going to be an increasing withdrawal from..."
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