Paul Craig Roberts - Trump's Declaration of War

The fallowing is a video interview script

I think it was a great inauguration speech, probably the best that any president has ever given. But it was a declaration of war against the entirety of the ruling American establishment.

He rejected globalism, he rejected the neoconservatives, he rejected the offshoring of jobs, and he rejected bankruptcy - he rejected everybody that is part of the ruling establishment.

Therefore, he has in effect declared war on the ruling establishment, and we will see if he can really defeat them - that will be a real test.

Trump has challenged the entirety of the establishment and they have had their own way since World War 2 and have grown more powerful and more and more independent of control by the people and the government.

Today, Trump was trying to get the American people united behind him, so that he could prevail  in this war he has declared. This war is not against foreigners, with the exception of ISIS, but against the ruling class. He blames them for all the problems that United States has - the decline in cities, the decline in the prospects of the people, the closed factories, the loss of infrastructure. They benefit from what they do and now they are facing the president who says: I'm not going to let you do that anymore. But the establishment just won’t accept that.

These demonstrations today were orchestrated; people were paid to be there. I'm afraid they were hoping to make it more controversial, more violent.

This is a great beginning. But the problem is that he has made many efforts. He tried to appeal to black Democrats, but you see that their leaders have an interest in being a victim group. They've been a victim group for decades. The whole leadership is based on black states’ victims. We have feminism that is based on women as victims, and we have the homosexuals, lesbians and LGBT who call themselves victims.

So, when you have so many leaders of various groups whose interest is in being a victim group, then it is hard to unite them.

The whole way they operate is victimization.

So, it's going to be hard for him to pull these people together. But he’s certainly made a billion efforts at trying.