On Saturday, another liquidation attempt was made, this time on President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down.... Because this is a Trumpian world, the plot, if one existed, was thin and hard to follow; the gravity of the central figure warped everything, including the bullet trained for his head; and the death was moved to the periphery, a meaningless sacrifice for the MAGA machine.
As with all events since Trump’s first election, there was a certain collapse of meaning surrounding the attempt that likely only an early-career DeLillo could parse. Two things have emerged: Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election and his vice president will be marine turned venture capitalist turned Ohio senator, J.D. Vance.
Following the announcement of J.D. Vance as Trump’s number two, there was an outpouring of celebration from a certain faction of the liberal commentariat on Twitter that this was a "beatable ticket." They pointed to his extreme positions on issues such as
But this is a wilful delusion that demonstrates how little these people have learned since 2016 and their inability to grasp the fact that they are running a corpse. It also shows a critical lack of understanding of who J.D. Vance is and what position he holds in the new political landscape.
J.D. Vance is not a MAGA crackpot or a garden-variety Republican bending the knee to Trump; he represents a bridge between mainstream politics and the Neoreactionary Right, a political force that so far has remained largely on the periphery of electoral politics.
The New Right or Neoreactionary Right or Dissident Right is a broad coalition of disaffected former leftists, race scientists, auteur filmmakers, health gurus, podcasters, bodybuilder satirists, accelerationist fashion designers, Unabomber fans, and bitcoin maximalists. The discourse in neoreactionary circles is often so heavily meme-ified and laundered in irony that it can be difficult to know what they believe or even have in common.
However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
in a Vanity Fair article covering the movement in 2022, which also happens to chart J.D. Vance’s ascent, James Pogue stated, "It is a project to overthrow the thrust of progress, at least such as liberals understand the word."
... and so on, blah blah blah.
I've seen that movie, watched it a second time, in fact. The red pill represented reality. The other pill was the lie.