The Peasants always suffer

The Peasants of the New American Dictatorship

The United States has slipped—quietly for some, violently for others—into its first full-blown dictatorship. And as history always tells us, there is never any mystery about who suffers most when a strongman takes power. It’s never the oligarchs. It’s never the billionaires. It’s never the yacht class or the resort dwellers.

It is always the poor.
It is always the workers.
It is always the people who believed the lie.

From ancient kings to 20th-century fascists, dictators rule with the same formula: weaponize the grievances of the people at the bottom, then hammer those same people into the ground once power is secured. Trump has not reinvented the wheel; he’s simply rolling the same old iron chariot over the backs of the very peasants who worship him.

The Great American Irony

What makes the Trump dictatorship remarkable is not its brutality—history has seen worse—but its absurdity. The people who empowered him were the people with the most to lose. The MAGA peasants weren’t just foot soldiers; they were the fuel, the oxygen, the cheering section.

And here is the cruel twist:
Trump abuses them the most.

The factory worker who thought Trump would “bring back jobs” now faces rising costs, disappearing healthcare, and a government run by corporations.
The struggling rural family that believed Trump would fight for them has been rewarded with cuts to social programs, worse schools, and crumbling infrastructure.
The veterans who believed the strongman myth now watch as Trump pardons war criminals but abandons those who served honorably.

The Old Story in New Clothes

Every dictator throughout history has blamed a scapegoat, promised a rebirth, and declared himself the only “truth.” Trump copied the script line by line.

• The strongman always claims he speaks for “the people.”
  Meanwhile, the real people can’t afford rent, groceries, medicine, or housing.

• The strongman always promises national greatness.
  Meanwhile, the oligarchs loot the treasury.

• The strongman always demonizes the poor as “lazy.”
  Meanwhile, his cronies siphon off billions in tax giveaways.

The only difference in America’s version is that the propaganda is piped through social media instead of state radio. Today’s peasants willingly carry the King’s message straight into their own living rooms.

The MAGA Peasant’s Burden

Call them peasants, call them serfs, call them Hoopleheads—whatever the name, the dynamic is ancient: the poor cling to the strongman because they are afraid. Afraid of cultural change. Afraid of economic uncertainty. Afraid of losing the tiny slice of status they believe they still hold.

So they pledge allegiance to the man who offers them the most seductive lie ever told in politics:

“Your suffering is someone else’s fault—not mine.”

Trump gave them a villain: immigrants, Democrats, teachers, librarians, scientists, trans kids, the FBI, the press, the courts, the experts, even the Constitution. Anyone but him.

But the bill always comes due.

And under a dictatorship, the bill is paid by the poor.

They pay with their labor.
They pay with their rights.
They pay with their public services.
They pay with their health.
They pay with their children’s futures.

And eventually, they pay with their freedom—sometimes without even noticing they lost it.

A Tyranny Built on Self-Delusion

The final tragedy of the American dictatorship is that Trump didn’t seize power from the people.

The people handed it to him.
They helped build the cage.
Then they climbed into it.
Then they slammed the door shut on themselves.

And now the strongman sits on his throne, chuckling to himself, knowing one great truth:

The easiest people to oppress are the ones who believe you’re saving them.

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