donnie is a transformative president. our attacks and complaints miss the mark.
while donnie appears to be scattered, it is only by traditional measures that he appears so.
while donnie appears not to have an agenda, it is only by traditional measures that he appears so.
while donnie appears not to be accomplishing anything, it is only by traditional measures that he appears so.
donnie is a paradigm-shifter. well, in truth, the paradigm shift didn't originate with him, but rather, like most transformative leaders, they're really just riding a wave started by others. they're really just the symbolic head of a mass movement.
in donnie's case, the wave has roots in nixon's southern and reagan's vaguely cloaked appeal to bigotry. it was amplified by rush limbaugh and hate radio and really took off with foxnews.
it's the white nationalist movement.
donnie appears to be scattered because he seems easily distracted and going on seemingly random twitterrages. but these rants are actually quite systematic. he's methodically siding with whites, men, americans of european decent, christians, and the able-bodied. he's methodically identifying "others" and insulting them in order to clearly put them in a lower social status than his preferred group of white christian able-bodied european-american men.
it may seem the insults are for simply disagreeing with him, but that's not the point, or actually, that helps make the point. he's insulting them because they come from what to his mind is a lower class (non-whites, women, etc.)
with enough of these insults repeated and consistently applied to these "others", it helps create and strengthen that image in the public consciousness.
it appears donnie has no agenda because he goes from one legislative topic to another or appears to lack a coherent political philosophy. but again that misses the point.
his agenda *is* the white nationalist agenda. passing laws is only one way to advance his agenda. relentless coverage of his redefining the debate, societal norms, social status, etc., is a major component and on that front he is has a clear agenda.
virtually everything he does makes much more sense once we recognize that he is the white nationalist president. he ran a white nationalist campaign, uses white nationalist rhetoric, and is trying to remake the fabric of this country in a white nationalist image.
it may seem he's not accomplishing anything, but once again, that's only because we focus on the wrong thing. so he hasn't signed many laws. but he has dominated political discussion and turned it completely upside down, so that everything is a matter of cultural identity. in his mind and in all his actions, white christian able-bodied european-american men are the only americans, and he is redefining all others as, well, "others". not real americans.
he started back with obama, treating him as a not real american for a seemingly nonsensical reason that he supposedly wasn't born in this country and forged his birth certificate or whatever. but the real reason was always that obama is black. because of that, he's not a real american in donnie's vision.
and that's exactly the disease that dominates the media every day since he came down that escalator (and many days before even that).
if we're not careful, the change in our society will outlive donnie's tenure in the white house. other republicans might retreat from the overtness and obviousness of donnie, but they'll continue to avoid intellectual debate on policy matters and further reduce all political discussion to class identification.
he is *far* more dangerous than most of us realize, and i'm not even getting into the nuclear button aspect.
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