The flip side of the shitlib yokel is the would-be coastal striver class-traitor who has lived through the ravages of prog rule and foresworn his shitlib inheritance for hardened reactionism. Think Stephen Miller.
https://twitter.com/l0m3z/status/1411374044818116610
Many in this sphere fall into this category. Born into and expressing all the outward trappings of shitlibbery but “mugged by reality” as it were, or perhaps always sensing something rotten and self-defeating at the core of the progressive heart, have whipsawed back to the right
There is a lot of insight that comes from this perspective, including if one has lived first hand through the destruction of a place like California, a window into the future through which to demonstrate to a Red America what awaits it
But there is also a danger in presuming this experience is universally understood by the Amerikaner, who is still in many ways years behind and clinging to old nostrums and identities. The Blue State reactionary must be patient with the Amerikaner and meet him where he is at
After all, the deep red Amerikaner has much to teach the Blue State Reactionary and one must be open to accepting what is potentially “cringe” or anachronistic and folding that into some larger political and cultural aesthetic that weds these two perspectives against the shitlib
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