The Post appears to be promising to narrate the death of democracy – or, if unconsciously, to be revealing an intention to embody it.
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Thesis on the Great Trumpian Victory (OAG #6)
… that the great victory of the Trumpists would be in the destruction of faith in the American system, now approaching the consensus position.
Posted in Featured, Operation American Greatness
Si Vis Bellum, Part 1: “Militarism” and “Interventionism”
The un-clarity or confusion, or confusion of confusions, regarding the meaning of these two terms is typical of this historical moment, which in one sense can be thought to have simply befallen us, having never been willed into existence by anyone, but in another sense can be viewed as the predictable and desired product of choices made over the course of at least two or now three presidential elections, in as self-conscious a manner as a mass democratic system is able to undertake.
Operation American Greatness
Ironic how Trump apologists, especially certain types of “American Conservative” paleo-cons, self-styled republican constitutionalists, and diverse fellow travelers all the way extending to everyday “Deplorables” drunkenly hurling foul epithets at campaign reporters, have adopted a main strategic rationale of the despised Neocons and Globalists.
Posted in Featured, Neo-Imperialism, notes, Operation American Greatness, Politics, War Tagged with: American Conservative, Iraq, NeoConservatism, Trumpism
An Alliance of Digital Artists (Art and Work in the Age of Instant Reproducibility)
If the Digital Artists Alliance never amounts to more than a temporary reference point, the basis for a gesture of respect by some site operators toward an ideal, then that will be enough for me, but I invite anyone interested in exploring larger possibilities to join me.
Subtweet (American Conservative Eschaton)
With less and less semblance of temperamental conservatism, ever more self-destructively, nominally conservative Americans have sought in vain to immanentize as eschaton the non-immanentization of eschaton.
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The absolute evil for politics as politics is the introduction of the question of absolute evil into politics, as the dissolution of politics. This rule is of the same form as the prejudice of philosophy against the entrance of prejudice into philosophy.
Posted in Featured, Political Philosophy
Conservative Neo-Imperialism vs Jacksonian Neo-Isolationism
As for Trumpism vs. Bushism, one will be no less dependent on “populist nationalism” than the other, to whatever extent it is also successful: In a mass electoralist national system under popular sovereignty, the winner will always be the truest national populist, by definition, if not necessarily the purest national populist according to some external or merely intellectual standard.
Posted in Featured, Neo-Imperialism, Politics Tagged with: Jacksonianism, Neo-Isolationism, Withdrawalism
Comment at American Creation on Strauss and the Problem of Belief
A remark about philosophers is not the same thing as a philosophical remark, and considering it philosophically is different from considering it in terms of, say, intellectual history.
Comment Elsewhere: To @BurtLikko under “How to Fix a Broken Elephant: Prologue”
Every other re-othered, just like we like it.