To set up today’s post — which is a tale that is not knowingly false — I divide artificially the broad liberal tent of our age.+ A left leaning primarily republican-shaped liberalism is a warm partisan of democratic self-rule.
This Bonapartist regime is likely to last a long time. The people advising Trump have a clear idea of what needs to be done to bring all state power under their control and to use it ruthlessly against their enemies.
It's cold comfort that this should, once and for all, confirm the conclusion that right-liberalism reliably capitulates to fascism.
Ever since the resurgence of the far-right I've been uneasy about the idea that "liberalism" is what we are, or should be defending, precisely because the term embraces so many who will happily pave the way for fascism.
Perhaps of interest:
https://open.substack.com/pub/branko2f7/p/the-ideology-of-donald-j-trump?r=b7s3t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Yes, this strikes me as a sober evaluation.
This Bonapartist regime is likely to last a long time. The people advising Trump have a clear idea of what needs to be done to bring all state power under their control and to use it ruthlessly against their enemies.
It's cold comfort that this should, once and for all, confirm the conclusion that right-liberalism reliably capitulates to fascism.
Ever since the resurgence of the far-right I've been uneasy about the idea that "liberalism" is what we are, or should be defending, precisely because the term embraces so many who will happily pave the way for fascism.