It starts with a closing store.

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18. Both Lenin and the Trump coalition are politically authoritarian.

Lenin was economically socialist and the Trump coalition is economically capitalist.
We would do better with a Bakunin style leadership which would be economically socialist and politically liberal.
The problem is when you have an authoritarian political leadership (left or right) that leadership will use it's power to enrich itself at the expense of those who actually work.

Incidentally, remember when Republicans hated the Soviet Union? What they hated wasn't the authoritarian political system, what they hated was the socialist economic system. That's why, now that Putin's Russia has shed the socialist economic system but kept the authoritarian political system, the Republicans have been so easily persuaded to support Russia.