Trump's represented hope for a normal republic, not an empire
The GAE led to all MAGA opposed. He was a critique of policies predicated on American strength that destroyed the roots of that strength, and the movement conservatism that legitimised and did not threaten the system.
The GAE led to all MAGA opposed. He was a critique of policies predicated on American strength that destroyed the roots of that strength, and the movement conservatism that legitimised and did not threaten the system.
https://twitter.com/ObamaGarak/status/1503301012970704899
Everything, from free trade to civil rights to a loose immigration policy to missionary foreign wars for liberal democracy is an outgrowth of the cold war machine that should have been turned off in the 1990s.
Oh well, Pat Buchanan tried.
Oh well, Pat Buchanan tried.
Everything repugnant about American politics, from the Post-Marxist liberal racialist moralism to the hostility to the historic American nation comes from the proposition nation - which started with Lincoln but was supercharged by the FDR admin/JFK - is inherently imperialistic.
These policies and worldviews were designed to counter the USSR, but now have to invent purposes for themselves now that the Soviets are gone. The political infrastructure and the political ideology now must go in search of monsters to destroy(Putin).
Rant Coda: movement conservatism itself is a form of "artificial negativity" in a fake and gay dialectic with the liberal America(see Paul Piccone). It does not challenge liberal morality or defend against the larger threats to the American nation(tax cuts > border wall)
It was designed to beat Communism, and is nothing but an unappealing Charlie Kirk cliche now that Communism is gone from the material world. Trump could destroy the GOP in 2016 as it existed because GOPers did not talk about problems real to the MARs. Beattie and Anton *get* it. 
TLDR: To steal a phrase from Peter Thiel, who gets it too, Trump's appeal is making America NORMAL again.
To be Heideggerian about it, he was conscious of American decline, as a true reactionary must be to politic authentically.
He knew the US was being-towards-death. He operated aware that the 1950s national American dream was DEAD (For anyone who isn't a DC apparatchik)
He knew the US was being-towards-death. He operated aware that the 1950s national American dream was DEAD (For anyone who isn't a DC apparatchik)
Again, no other GOPer had the balls to question exceptionalism - the foundation for liberal imperium - like that.
Hence the popularity of BAPism and other stuff with a neofascist aesthetic(cringe word, not a bad thing either). Someone must care for the vital health of the nation
Hence the popularity of BAPism and other stuff with a neofascist aesthetic(cringe word, not a bad thing either). Someone must care for the vital health of the nation
I *think* this is the Anton lecture I'm thinking of
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