Anime Trump introduces his economic panacea to the grateful American public.
There is a lot of heat and excitement right now about Trump's latest attention-grabbing move, namely imposing wide-ranging tariffs on the rest of the world, all backed up by a comprehensive "economic analysis" of who has supposedly been "screwing" America, when it is more probable that America that has been screwing the rest of the World for decades.
Essentially the so-called "Day of Liberation" is an attempt to create what I call "The People's Republic of MAGA," namely an economically autarkic and emotionally autistic state that lies at the heart of Trump's voting base.
Like the notion of a Zionist state in the 1890s, Dugin's "Eurasia" more recently, or even Richard Spencer's vague notion of the "ethnostate" before he got turned by the Feds, it is an idealistic concept that generates emotional and meme power, but which may face real problems in the real world.
In my view, none of these idealised fantasy states is ultimately workable, although clearly the Zionist project is making a reasonably decent fist of it at the moment.
"The People's Republic of MAGA" is also, I would guess, destined for failure. While MAGAism appeals to many Americans as an idealised or emotionalised concept, it is not quite so endearing as an economic reality.
But before going there, what exactly is the appeal of MAGAism and "The People's Republic of MAGA"? I think there are two main elements in it, namely America's centuries-long inferiority complex and the late-stage boomerism of many of the "MAGAtards."
MAGA Americans are essentially the most "inferior" people in the World. They instinctively sense their own crassness, lack of sophistication, and huck-like gullibility for any snake oil salesman or carnival barker. They are slop content personified, and they know it. America associating closely with innately superior civilisations like Japan or Europe "hurtz their feelz," a bit like the fat ugly girl in a beauty pageant. Thinking that foreigners are "decadent," "effete," "malign," etc. are all ways to cope with this, and has always been there in American culture.
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Then there is late-stage boomerism.
Boomers are distinguished from all other generations in that they were the first and perhaps the only generation to be "generationally sovereign," that is to exist separately and for their own sakes. They also experienced extreme generational arrogance, as their sense of themselves as somehow "special" seemed to be echoed by the social, technological, political, and economic universes, which delivered more personal freedom, economic growth, gizmos, and economic and asset growth than ever before.
But the silver cloud had black lining. As the most spoilt and privileged generation, they did not transition too smoothly to the notion of aging and dying. They felt, more strongly than all preceding and less self-centred generations, that the universe had done them a great wrong.
A natural outcome of these casual factors is a sense of "victimisation" combined with a chest-thumping assertion of "muh greatness." This is essentially what Trump, the eternal boomer and quintessential unsophisticated American embodies, and it is easy to see his appeal to a vast segment of of his fellow Americans.
But the problem is simply whether "The People's Republic of MAGA" conforms to reality and can make a decent fist of it.
The idea of America being "economically autarkic" and "culturally autistic" is not necessarily bad in itself. Most countries are like this in the sense that they make much more of their own stuff (or at least pay for it with goods of an equal value that they do grow, mine, or make). They are also less culturally connected to the rest of the world than America is. This is mainly the effect of speaking their own unique languages, which filter out and distance much of the rest of the world.
America, by contrast, is sucked much more into a wider world it is uncomfortable with by speaking the language of its globalist British creators, something greatly exacerbated by the information technology revolutions of the last 20 to 30 years.
The short version here is that much of America feels too connected -- culturally and economically -- to a world that makes it feel uncomfortable, and craves less connection. That is the meaning of MAGA and Trump.
Being the centre of a global interconnected world is not for everyone. In fact, it is for a relatively narrow and select group of countries and cultures: Britain in its heyday, the French anytime, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Ancient Greeks, and maybe the Ottomans in the past, and possibly the Indians in the future.
Like the Americans, the Oriental nations are less enamoured of it and naturally incline towards the autarkic, although economically both Japan and China have, behind the walls of their inscrutable scripts, become pseudo-globalist nations.
As for America, while globalism has long been embraced by its coastal elites, the vast majority of its population has craved to eke out its humble existence in a relatively meek, backward, and secluded way.
The problem is that Trump's radical attempt to deliver this emotional "small America" vision is likely to cause too much economic pain to be workable. Despite itself, America is too drugged and addicted to globalism to effortlessly slough it off.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.
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