\nThrough insults to Popes and Kings he united every aristocratic faction in Europe to the point where after Waterloo, he was removed to an island in the middle of the ocean so he could no longer \u201cdisturb the peace of the world.\u201d That was the world goal for Trump, whose similar crime was called \u201cundermining the rules-based international order.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve written tons of essays about the global-capitalist empire\u2019s reaction to the rise of Trump and the \u201cpopulist\u201d rebellion that started in 2016, many of which are published in two of my books,\u00a0Trumpocalypse<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The War on Populism<\/em>, so you\u2019ll understand if I don\u2019t opine at length on the rules-based international order and all that again here.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe thing is, it isn\u2019t 2016, or 2018, or even 2020 or 2022 anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lot has happened since the days when Trump was under attack as both a \u201cRussian agent\u201d and \u201cliterally Hitler.\u201d Twitter has been bought and successfully whitewashed and rebranded as \u201cfree-speech X\u201d by Elon Musk\u2014the Military-Industrial-Complex-embedded transhumanist multi-billionaire who is literally a key member of the US government\u2014and is now the meticulously visibility-filtered mouthpiece for MAGA and the international \u201cpopulist\u201d movement. It is an official propaganda organ more sophisticated and insidious than anything Orwell could have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The MAGA movement has joined forces with far-right ethno-nationalist movements and parties like the AfD here in Germany, and together they are fomenting racial hatred around the clock, and selling their hapless supporters pipe dreams of\u00a0\u201cthe end of globalism,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0\u201crebirth of the sovereign nation-state,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0or something \u2026 as if the global-capitalist empire were going to just surrender and wither up and die because Trump issued an executive order at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn short, the MAGA demographic and the ethno-nationalist right believe they have \u201cwon,\u201d or are about to \u201cwin,\u201d and they are power-drunk, and reckless, and appear to have forgotten how episodes like this end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of us haven\u2019t forgotten. To me, this was the key passage in Matt Taibbi\u2019s piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nTrump\u2019s in the White House, but his power base is still mostly all voters, and I\u2019m not sure his people are wrong to think\u00a0they\u2019ve got maybe a year to smash big law, academia, the media, the DC\u00a0<\/strong>nomenklatura<\/strong><\/em>, the EU, and everything else on their shit list before those entities send the hammer right back<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>They\u2019re probably also right that if Trump fails, we\u2019ll be back to where we were at the moment of the record scratch seven months ago, staring at a more organized and cynical effort at authoritarianism, with more sophisticated plans for higher \u201cguardrails.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nWhile I disagree with Matt about the \u201cmostly all voters\u201d nature of the MAGA power base, he\u2019s right about there being a \u201cGodzilla window\u201d (i.e., a short period of time in which they can stomp around breathing fire and smashing \u201clibtard\u201d stuff, or at least pretending to do so). When that window closes, the \u201centities\u201d (i.e., The Powers That Be) are going to bring their shit-hammer down on this MAGA\/Musk\/AfD \u201cpopulist\u201d rebellion in spectacular fashion \u2026 more or less as Israel is bringing it down on Gaza currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Powers That Be are going to do that to send a message. The same message they are sending by liquidating Gaza. The same message they sent during the Covid era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The message is:\u00a0\u201cThis is what you get when you fuck with us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, the shit-hammering is coming. Not today, or tomorrow, but it is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you thought the \u201cmore organized and cynical effort at authoritarianism\u201d that Matt referred to in his piece was bad during 2016-2020, or during the roll-out of the \u201cNew Normal\u201d during 2020-2023 \u2026 well, I\u2019m afraid you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet. Just imagine the draconian \u201cemergency measures\u201d that The Powers That Be will be able to justify after two or three years of balls-out ethno-nationalist \u201cgreatness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, no, sorry, but this is not \u201cthe end of globalism.\u201d Neither America nor Germany nor any other sales region of the global-capitalist empire is going to be made \u201cgreat\u201d again. What\u2019s going to happen is the empire is going to let the \u201cpopulists\u201d run amok, and make a big fucking mess, and scare the living shit out of the normals for as long as seems necessary, and then it is going to come down hard, on them, and on anyone else who looks funny \u2026 and by \u201cfunny,\u201d I mean anyone who looks like an \u201cextremist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, if you are among that power-drunk MAGA demographic, congratulations! I hope you enjoy your Godzilla Window while it lasts, at least as much as those Hamas guys enjoyed their victory on October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTrump Gaza Seaside\u2026it\u2019s the Other Riviera!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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