You're smoking copium if you think that this was the end for Trump, and you're smoking crack if you think that you want Trump to dissipate.
The fact is that Trump is replacing Neoconservatism and that scares the hell out of the establishment uniparty, who perfected the neoconservative and progressive political football game where the ball never leaves the possession of two teams that fundamentally agree on all the rules of the game (economics, surveillance, military, prison-industry, etc etc etc) but who can divide the proles along enough precreated fault lines to make them look measurably different. Trump actually IS measurably different, and that's why he's "scary".
The fact is that neoconservatism isn't popular among the right-wing under 35, because there's nothing there for us. It's a game for old hawkish men who use the military as an economic flywheel. Trump styled populism very much is popular among the right-wing under 35, because it poses an end to uniparty dominance and a decisive victory for regular Americans (who haven't had a voice in a very long while).
The alternative to a Trump-style populist reform is that the blue team drags the USA into Weimar-esque conditions (they're already doing this, and will continue to do this at an increasing rate for the longer they have power), and the pendulum swings back toward the authoritarian right. You're probably pretty historically illiterate, so you should really look into what normal people voted for to end the Weimar Republic, and how they felt about "journalists" who carried water for such a ridiculous system.
One thing is for sure, though: the era of the neoconservative "pressure-release valve" McConnell/Romney/Paul Ryan GoP is dead, and not coming back.
Also, if you can address in any of your articles why voting went from being counted by the end of election night in 2016 and before to requiring a week in contested races, then I'd love to read it.
Christ fella. I agree Trump is measurably different, but not in any good way. He's scary because he has no core beliefs beyond self-promotion and self-aggrandizement. I would love for the US (and Canada for that matter) to break out of its back-and-forth two-party dominance, which you correctly refer to as the "establishment uniparty." But not this way. Trump has shown again and again that he is not capable of handling the responsibilities of the presidency and cannot be trusted.
I would refer you back to the final section of my essay, where I briefly discuss the strong suspicion many of us have that intelligent Trump supporters want everything to descend into chaos so that... something?... can rise in its place. I'm coming from a place of deep fear of what exactly that something is. Despite my historical illiteracy, as you say, I have read enough to know that castles in the sky are often just transient puffy clouds.
Also, I'm (thankfully) not a journalist, just to be clear.
I'm a decently intelligent Trump supporter, and I think that if he loses in 2024 then we're all but condemned to repeat the mistakes Weimar made: on a remarkably similar timeframe: the accelerationist ticket for the race I most recently voted in was for John Fetterman.
Americans are being humiliated, occupied, and subverted. Their cities are ugly, their artwork is ugly, their buildings and cars and music are ugly. Their politicians are transparently corrupt child molesters. Their Department of Justice is a political apparatus which targets wrongthinkers. Their currency is a truncheon used to attack wrongthinkers. Their governing city-state is home to the most complex surveillance apparatuses anywhere on the planet, and they're made to pay for it all against their will by a force which required a Constitutional Amendment to exist (due to being antithetical to the existential nature of America). They're being primed to become anti-semitic, low-trust, low-empathy, as their prosperity is cast far and wide across the world by politicians more concerned with kickbacks than heroin overdoses.
Trump is a populist. The core tenants of his beliefs are that America has to be for Americans first and foremost: that the America which exists to serve as a clay golem for the ruling class in the destruction of its enemies both military and economic is an abomination fomented by deep and abiding corruption and profiteering on both sides of the aisle. He doesn't need a more coherent or cogent call to action than that to be electable: the alternatives are all mired shoulder-deep in the corruption and profiteering that has lead to the Weimarization of our fair Republic.
If I wanted violence, I'd support Joe Biden 2024 and the most ridiculous progressive candidates that I could find. Continuing to alternate between ignoring half of the country's desires and labeling them as dangerous extremists for not believing the government's narrative - combined with an unwillingness to hold free, fair, transparent elections - will result in millions of deaths. I really think Trump and his populist vision for the Republican party is the only thing that will stop red team from responding to the increased authoritarianism from the blue team with their own increase in authoritarianism.
American politicians are transparently corrupt child-molesters? Not voting for Trump will result in millions of deaths? Really? I'm with you on corruption and profiteering plaguing both parties, and I do think there are plenty of reasons to be down on the US, with its permanent war on the working class, but I can't agree with you on how this all gets worked out. I will look into the "Weimarization" of the Republic though, as it's an idea I've been confronted with a few times lately.
Reread my second paragraph, line-by-line. Acknowledge that many of the individuals who sit in Congress now (both teams) were listed in Epstein's little black book. Ask yourself how senators and congressmen whose salaries are $190k/yr are worth tens of millions of dollars. Yes: American politicians are transparently corrupt. Yes, they molest children in order to form a blackmail ring that keeps them in line. No, not all of them. No, none of this can be labeled as "conspiracy theory" any more. The lady who helped run the blackmail ring is sitting in prison right now, and was not arrested under the direction of an establishment president.
Ask yourself: Who else both can and will question the established orthodoxy to enough of an extent and with enough percussive force behind them to enable these things to be challenged? When was the last time you heard a politician that wasn't Trump mention human trafficking? Who has any incentive to challenge the status quo, given what happens to powerful and influential men who do? How many times can you falsify election results using mail-in and drop-off voting before the people whose wills you're subverting kill you?
You're smoking copium if you think that this was the end for Trump, and you're smoking crack if you think that you want Trump to dissipate.
The fact is that Trump is replacing Neoconservatism and that scares the hell out of the establishment uniparty, who perfected the neoconservative and progressive political football game where the ball never leaves the possession of two teams that fundamentally agree on all the rules of the game (economics, surveillance, military, prison-industry, etc etc etc) but who can divide the proles along enough precreated fault lines to make them look measurably different. Trump actually IS measurably different, and that's why he's "scary".
The fact is that neoconservatism isn't popular among the right-wing under 35, because there's nothing there for us. It's a game for old hawkish men who use the military as an economic flywheel. Trump styled populism very much is popular among the right-wing under 35, because it poses an end to uniparty dominance and a decisive victory for regular Americans (who haven't had a voice in a very long while).
The alternative to a Trump-style populist reform is that the blue team drags the USA into Weimar-esque conditions (they're already doing this, and will continue to do this at an increasing rate for the longer they have power), and the pendulum swings back toward the authoritarian right. You're probably pretty historically illiterate, so you should really look into what normal people voted for to end the Weimar Republic, and how they felt about "journalists" who carried water for such a ridiculous system.
One thing is for sure, though: the era of the neoconservative "pressure-release valve" McConnell/Romney/Paul Ryan GoP is dead, and not coming back.
Also, if you can address in any of your articles why voting went from being counted by the end of election night in 2016 and before to requiring a week in contested races, then I'd love to read it.
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Christ fella. I agree Trump is measurably different, but not in any good way. He's scary because he has no core beliefs beyond self-promotion and self-aggrandizement. I would love for the US (and Canada for that matter) to break out of its back-and-forth two-party dominance, which you correctly refer to as the "establishment uniparty." But not this way. Trump has shown again and again that he is not capable of handling the responsibilities of the presidency and cannot be trusted.
I would refer you back to the final section of my essay, where I briefly discuss the strong suspicion many of us have that intelligent Trump supporters want everything to descend into chaos so that... something?... can rise in its place. I'm coming from a place of deep fear of what exactly that something is. Despite my historical illiteracy, as you say, I have read enough to know that castles in the sky are often just transient puffy clouds.
Also, I'm (thankfully) not a journalist, just to be clear.
I'm a decently intelligent Trump supporter, and I think that if he loses in 2024 then we're all but condemned to repeat the mistakes Weimar made: on a remarkably similar timeframe: the accelerationist ticket for the race I most recently voted in was for John Fetterman.
Americans are being humiliated, occupied, and subverted. Their cities are ugly, their artwork is ugly, their buildings and cars and music are ugly. Their politicians are transparently corrupt child molesters. Their Department of Justice is a political apparatus which targets wrongthinkers. Their currency is a truncheon used to attack wrongthinkers. Their governing city-state is home to the most complex surveillance apparatuses anywhere on the planet, and they're made to pay for it all against their will by a force which required a Constitutional Amendment to exist (due to being antithetical to the existential nature of America). They're being primed to become anti-semitic, low-trust, low-empathy, as their prosperity is cast far and wide across the world by politicians more concerned with kickbacks than heroin overdoses.
Trump is a populist. The core tenants of his beliefs are that America has to be for Americans first and foremost: that the America which exists to serve as a clay golem for the ruling class in the destruction of its enemies both military and economic is an abomination fomented by deep and abiding corruption and profiteering on both sides of the aisle. He doesn't need a more coherent or cogent call to action than that to be electable: the alternatives are all mired shoulder-deep in the corruption and profiteering that has lead to the Weimarization of our fair Republic.
If I wanted violence, I'd support Joe Biden 2024 and the most ridiculous progressive candidates that I could find. Continuing to alternate between ignoring half of the country's desires and labeling them as dangerous extremists for not believing the government's narrative - combined with an unwillingness to hold free, fair, transparent elections - will result in millions of deaths. I really think Trump and his populist vision for the Republican party is the only thing that will stop red team from responding to the increased authoritarianism from the blue team with their own increase in authoritarianism.
American politicians are transparently corrupt child-molesters? Not voting for Trump will result in millions of deaths? Really? I'm with you on corruption and profiteering plaguing both parties, and I do think there are plenty of reasons to be down on the US, with its permanent war on the working class, but I can't agree with you on how this all gets worked out. I will look into the "Weimarization" of the Republic though, as it's an idea I've been confronted with a few times lately.
Reread my second paragraph, line-by-line. Acknowledge that many of the individuals who sit in Congress now (both teams) were listed in Epstein's little black book. Ask yourself how senators and congressmen whose salaries are $190k/yr are worth tens of millions of dollars. Yes: American politicians are transparently corrupt. Yes, they molest children in order to form a blackmail ring that keeps them in line. No, not all of them. No, none of this can be labeled as "conspiracy theory" any more. The lady who helped run the blackmail ring is sitting in prison right now, and was not arrested under the direction of an establishment president.
Ask yourself: Who else both can and will question the established orthodoxy to enough of an extent and with enough percussive force behind them to enable these things to be challenged? When was the last time you heard a politician that wasn't Trump mention human trafficking? Who has any incentive to challenge the status quo, given what happens to powerful and influential men who do? How many times can you falsify election results using mail-in and drop-off voting before the people whose wills you're subverting kill you?