Quick and dirty way of summarizing it for left-liberals is that they would have found Teddy Roosevelt and Joseph McCarthy to be dangerous demagogues, they would have sincere reasons for why they hold this view, and neither of these men were fascists.
He has affiliations for the politic. Yet, it's clear they're more hitchhikers. Yet it's clear that doesn't matter as there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Consent and trespass seem a clean frame for the Woke-Trumpist slider. Famously, their memes are about not understanding consent. Whether that's for sex, gender transition, or general propriety.
Obedience to them and authority of their agency in their World seems to be their only virtue. Loyalty isn't as it implies reciprocity and that's consent-coded. Trump is their god as Athena was Athen's. Trump can never be wrong as that would jeopardize their World. The only real item it seems is if he loses power. Worked for 2020-2022 unless I'm mistaken.
Yet, to them, it's possible for Trump the man to disobey himself. He can't steer the wave but he can sell them a phone plan - let them "show their support". Also, he seems to ride the Gen X Rage Against the Machine shtick as much as he rides the Ayn Rand stink. Plus all the other stuff that's been mentioned already. Those two seem to be the best vehicles unless the Dixiecrats make a comeback.
They're driven by imagined betrayal of imagined social contracts by imagined enemies. Often an essentialized XYZ or a simplified abstract. Frustration or desire's friction. And then a whole slew of toxic belief statements for narrative padding.
The truth is irrelevant. Narratives are excuses for violence and the exercise of power across all dimensions. Whether physical, spiritual, rhetoric, or reason. That might be frustration's climax. Or a force multiplier of control over a plurality. That prolly differentiates the movement and the apparatus.
Quick and dirty way of summarizing it for left-liberals is that they would have found Teddy Roosevelt and Joseph McCarthy to be dangerous demagogues, they would have sincere reasons for why they hold this view, and neither of these men were fascists.
Lovely article.
He has affiliations for the politic. Yet, it's clear they're more hitchhikers. Yet it's clear that doesn't matter as there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Consent and trespass seem a clean frame for the Woke-Trumpist slider. Famously, their memes are about not understanding consent. Whether that's for sex, gender transition, or general propriety.
Obedience to them and authority of their agency in their World seems to be their only virtue. Loyalty isn't as it implies reciprocity and that's consent-coded. Trump is their god as Athena was Athen's. Trump can never be wrong as that would jeopardize their World. The only real item it seems is if he loses power. Worked for 2020-2022 unless I'm mistaken.
Yet, to them, it's possible for Trump the man to disobey himself. He can't steer the wave but he can sell them a phone plan - let them "show their support". Also, he seems to ride the Gen X Rage Against the Machine shtick as much as he rides the Ayn Rand stink. Plus all the other stuff that's been mentioned already. Those two seem to be the best vehicles unless the Dixiecrats make a comeback.
They're driven by imagined betrayal of imagined social contracts by imagined enemies. Often an essentialized XYZ or a simplified abstract. Frustration or desire's friction. And then a whole slew of toxic belief statements for narrative padding.
The truth is irrelevant. Narratives are excuses for violence and the exercise of power across all dimensions. Whether physical, spiritual, rhetoric, or reason. That might be frustration's climax. Or a force multiplier of control over a plurality. That prolly differentiates the movement and the apparatus.
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