Of the myriad of violations against Donald Trump and his supporters, it seems that the most popular is "wake up." The title describes the Trump movement and mirror replicas of anti-left illegalism. My colleague Thomas Chatterton Williams explained earlier this year: “Wake up,” puts identity complaints, racial awareness and tribal efforts at the center of their behavior and thought. "Right Wow, dialing out the technology of the liberal left breeds - language policing, historical revisionism, widespread claims of racial oppression - but deploying it as the Maga Coalition, higher than all white Christian men, rather than racial and sexual minorities.
Some critics of the assault described the movement as a physical rebound, “meeting new bosses, the same as old bosses” response to decades of liberalism. In fact, the right side of the waking wakes up. I happened to find a text source that was saved in time and perfect.
2011, published by Pat Buchanan Superpower suicide: Will the United States survive until 2025? (Search from 2025, I can report that the answer is tentative.) There are two reasons to revisit the book today. One is that, as many analysts have pointed out, Buchanan invented Trump's shtick. Right-wing populists launched two unsuccessful campaigns for Republican nominations, followed by another independent candidate, a proto-Topnian theme for trade protectionism, isolationism and essentialism, which are elaborate themes Superpower suicide. (Buchanan announced his withdrawal from political commentary last year.)
Another is that Buchanan's manifesto preceded the advent of a derogatory sense of left-wing fanaticism, which began around 2014. Therefore, it is clear that although awakened, while waving power from rebounding to awakeningism, there is no need to awaken the existence of the left and left general as a reason.
If you are looking for identity dissatisfaction, racial awareness and tribal efforts, then Buchanan has 400 pages. His core argument is that whites should unite to prevent non-whites from overwhelming non-whites and using voting rights to redistribute resources downward. This belief inspired Buchanan's model of international relations and domestic politics. Globally, Buchanan advocates reconciliation with Russia, praising “pleading for the unity of white states.”
At home, he condemned George W. Buchanan for urging the party to use native themes and other conservative messages to attract more white voters, and Trump later adopted a strategy.
In some ways, Superpower suicide The strike notes are similar to those found on generations of conservative screens: annoyed by the pace of social change, expressing feelings about the good times of the past - "In 1952, Coke was like the candy bar, the cost of Coke," Buchanan recalled nostalgically, and worried that the country might not survive. But specific elements of Buchanan's complaints suggest that the almost unrecognizable context he wrote, which was a decade and a half-year cultural change.
The idea of “awakening” about race and gender emerged at the end of the Obama era, partly against Barack Obama’s relatively solid liberal values. In 2011, when Buchanan wrote, the concept of what would be called awakeningism remained confined to the edges of academics and left-wing activism, who were so marginal politically that Superpower suicide Don't refer to them.
Instead, Buchanan condemned Obama-era liberalism with a focus on social equality and individual rights. He opposed homosexual marriage, as well as "individualistic hedonism", "playboy philosophy" and "MTV morality". Tell him that he didn't even pretend he was a defender of freedom of speech. Instead, he expressed indignation at liberals being allowed to insult traditional values, including Christianity, while conservative criticism of Islam and homosexuality was considered taboo. Buchanan quotes an episode from 2009 Curb your passionin which Larry David accidentally urinates on Jesus’ painting, sheds light on a series of weird events in which Catholic women mistake urine for tears, is an example of incredibly offensive content. Buchanan implies that hate speech (opposition to the group he identified) is not free speech without such a way.
"Another Walknez's logo is the driving force behind competing and revising the historical records of contemporary debates," Williams wrote. Superpower suicide. Buchanan mocked the Obama-era history, which describes American history as imperfect, stops moving towards a more perfect alliance and will eventually live up to its building ideals.
The left expressed opposition to Obama's optimistic analysis, viewing American history as a prolonged bleeding of racism and exploitation, without a clear trajectory. Buchanan adopted a similar analysis, except that he proposed the necessary qualities of left-wing ridicule, even worthy of praise. He asserted that the United States was a "product of nationalism." "Nevertheless, post-war propaganda, there is no fight for equality." Similarly, "no one would suggest that Indian wars are about equality. They are about racism and conquest." He reminded readers that Lincoln is a white supremacist. As a descriptive statement, Buchanan's history is almost no different from the history you encountered in texts like 1619 or Howard Zinn The history of the American peopleonly the moral price of events is flipped.
Buchanan is much more interested in world events than Trump. It is hard to imagine that the current president once made a strong opinion on the layoffs of Austria's cedes South Tyrol to Italy in 1918 (Buchanan is still angry). But the overall thrust of the Buchanan belief system is very familiar. He insists that all countries care only about their own interests. International cooperation is a facade; the United States' allies are parasites; one country we should contact is Russia.
His domestic worldview is also Trump. Buchanan's threat is not censorship or radical anti-Americanism. This is the idea that America is or can be any unrighteous, white and Christian claiming equality of citizenship. He is not a defender of liberalism or equality, but a proud advocate of hierarchy.
Trump promised to restore freedom of speech and “build a society based on color blindness and merits.” Instead, he attacked freedom of speech, Harvard put pressure on creating quotas for Maga fans and establishing the most non-literate management since the invention of the civil servant. Some Trump supporters may be surprised by the bad version of this right-wing version. But in the premise of Trumpism, it has always existed.