Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker⚔️@Nomads4Pritzker
Correct! Their movement was led by a world-historic con man and all of the foot soldiers were too dumb and cretinous to accomplish their aims! Their big immigration push was sunk by nice Minnesotans who stood up for their neighbors! Kash Patel is having too much fun flying his Swiss girlfriend around to persecute their political enemies. They had no foreign policy vision, so neocons happily filled the vacuum. They thought that sending Elon and a bunch of CS majors into the federal bureaucracy would demolish "The Cathedral," but these days the DOGE bros are getting deposed and Elon spends his hours commenting "Very Nice" on AI images of anime girls.
Now the Democrats are going to sweep Congress, and spend the next two years hauling all of Trump's cronies in and raking them over hot coals. While this happens, the lame-duck president will be too occupied picking out trim for his ballroom to bother himself with their protection, or, for that matter, with tending to the political project he ostensibly set in motion. The movement will continue, all right, but it will be the purview of increasingly marginal dum-dums and grifters huffing the exhausted fumes of Trumpism as the bored public slowly drifts away.
All of this happened for a simple reason: the far right doesn't know how anything works. If the movement had a real understanding of the mechanisms of government or the material basis for liberalism, maybe they would have had a shot at implementing durable right-wing authoritarianism in this country. Things certainly looked like they were trending in that direction on Jan 20, 2025. The wind was very much at their back! It didn't go that way, though, because the movement ran aground on the problem that Umberto Eco identified 30 years ago: "Fascist are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." If you live in a dreamworld of conspiracy, you will spend all of your energy punching at shadows, and none of it landing haymakers. But they can't land the knockout blow because they can't identify what "the left" really is or what powers it.
This is why this guy's schtick is so funny and so representative: the libertarian who always agrees with the authoritarian right. "Crush the left" - Hayek would be proud! It's emblematic of the pervasive self-delusion that has led them into the wilderness. If crushing the left was ever the goal of their leaders, they would have brought along at least a few serious people. But they didn't, and the movement will spend what remains of its stamina building the Big Beautiful Ballroom: MAGA's sarcophagus.
