... Can Trump be the vehicle for the ethno-nationalist aspirations of his most ardent supporters? "We'll hold his feet to the fire!" ...
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... Come on! We can get beyond that level of childishness, and start actually thinking this thing through. ...
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... Just to begin with, let's all soberly recognize the "Rousseau for the Right" fantasy structure that could so easily seize weak minds. .
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... "He's going to represent us!" (The Popular Will). What does that even mean? You think there's an articulate subject that isn't people? .
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... "People" meaning actual people, not The Volk. Private interests, ambitions, inclinations, factions, weaknesses. ...
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... The Volk is not representable, though it might take a few years for that to become starkly evident to everyone. ...
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... A Leftist delusion doesn't stop being a delusion, through accretion of some edgy 'rightist' spin. Races don't have voices. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
Are you going to make specific predictions about ways populist demands won't be met, or leave it ambiguous/unfalsifiable?
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We could start with the floated Bolton appointment, which I've already tweeted about.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Well, so: "Trump will betray you" amounts to predicting it's Bolton, & he'll be even more of a neoconnard than Powell or Rice?
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"Trump will betray you" is a senseless formulation. No government could ever not "betray you" if Rousseau is your guide.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Mock on, mock on, Rousseau, Nick Land >"We'll hold his feet to the fire!" Come on! We can get beyond that level of childishness
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If that has any meaning, it's Trump's supporters' policy preferences have no special power over what Trump does as potus
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