Thread by @jamespoulos

There is no way to classify this phantasmagoria as anything other than a desire to burn America’s regime down to the ground

Recognize this for what it is: a direct and total attack on the very foundation of the American theory of justice: equal protection of all under law in virtue of our equal humanity and equal citizenship

As digital disenchants the electric age order, where those most expert in the mass broadcast of ethical fantasies rule, the Left is proving helpless to deny the right to the most abject and insane fantasies to its most anti-American vanguard

So the respectable Left is now painted into a corner where it insists with religious devotion that the online Right must be deradicalized on terms set by people who wish to annihilate America’s regime and replace it with Maoistic occultism

Whole generations online are <10 years away from making a fundamental break of their own with the American identity and its theory of justice. Utterly unrecoverable through woke re-education camps. In fact, to recover them, it is the woke clerisy that must be rooted out

Meanwhile of course the respectable Right has no grasp of the digital transformation, pathetic links to tech, and a snobbish/terrified reaction to the wilds of online where vast hordes of young barbarians lacking bow ties flex and laugh

And so established conservatism becomes one more piece of impotent cringe content sucked into the all consuming digital archive, suitable only for lols and derision on its way to oblivion

If anyone is going to salvage America from the wokeist revenge fantasy, recover the rising online generations for civic life, and steer the regime through the harrowing challenges of the digital disenchantment, it won’t be the panicking Left or the kitsch Right.

It’ll be those with the credibility and the training in the real political science of American regime maintenance, who grasp digital, can reach the young, and are free from the rigor mortis of ideological establishments conservative and liberal.

In case you’re curious what I spend my days planning around. //