Amerika

At this point, most of us recognize politically loaded terms like “racist” and “fascist” simply mean someone who is from a first-world population and does not want to be replaced by the third world. Once upon a time “racist” means someone who judged others by their race and ethnicity, a practice consistent with Darwinism, but now it has lost all meaning.

Similarly “fascist” used to mean followers of Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco whose idea of corporatism fused libertarian and socialist ideals. The term now serves as shorthand for anyone who supports anything other than anarchic democracy and might want to preserve national populations against admixture.

Looking back, it makes sense to see populism as a flight from ideology toward realism and culture. This is not a new theme on the Right, but it gains new life through the libertarian lens of the Tea Party, and with the alt-right, became aware of how much immigration, globalization, and diversity are causing genocide.

If Trump has a message, it is that it is time to reject symbolism and the optics in order to be rough, crude, and most of all, real. Our society has become pretentious and addicted to illusions like the late stage Roman Empire, and has crawled so far into its own symbolism that it cannot recognize the plain facts of life staring it in the face.

Populism is a flight from human judgments about reality — theory, ideology, symbolism, celebrities, social tropes, the optics — and a journey to the idea that societies are united by what they have in common, which is culture, which is tied to genetics.

We have rejected the idea that humans are a fungible stream of identical people who simply need to be shaped, propagandized, “educated,” and carrot-and-stick manipulated into doing what the system needs and what its ideology commands. That Soviet-type existence, even in a milder form, is living death.

The effects of this living death were visible during Bidenian America. In fact, everything from Bill Clinton onward has been heading to this point: a society based on subsidizing diversity and then reaping tax money from the ensuing “growth.”

It turns out that “growth” drives up stocks, but everything else falls apart as we toss more money into the infinite hole of fighting poverty, drugs, sexism, racism, classism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia [list continues on next page].

Fascism was an attempt to make a modern system based in the State that would not tend toward the left. It brought corporations in as shareholders in government, implemented law and order, and quietly removed Communists. While the latter is obviously necessary, fascism was unstable as a form of “libertarian Communism” and went too far.

Trump is the opposite: he is clearing aside the State so that culture can thrive and heal the damage done by ideology.

Tags: donald j. trump, fascism