WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE, TOTO

THIS IS WHAT HISTORY LOOKS LIKE

Have you been taken aback by the obvious, recent show trials of Steven Bannon and Alex Jones? Trials evidently rigged to cripple their effectiveness as political operatives?

Has the January 6th Committee hearings, with their “insurrection” frame-up, the cover up of the Ashli Babbitt shooting, the systemic abuse of due process for those arrested for being at the Capital, and the apparent weaponization of the criminal justice system and intelligence apparatus against the political opposition been shocking to you?

After having been hounded throughout his presidency by a coordinated PSYOP smear campaign, debilitating his administration, did then seeing the president deplatformed from social media, subject to complete stonewalling by the establishment in the aftermath of the election, with refusals to do standard forensic audits and signature matches, and seeing all court challenges systematically thrown out on grounds of standing, all strike you as things you thought you’d never see in America?

And now, a former president of the United States, current leader of the opposition party, and the avatar of a major social and political movement has his home raided by the regime’s armed paramilitary forces, and people are shocked? Calling it banana republic level politics?

I hope none of my readers fell into that shocked camp, because I’ve been telling you what’s happening. Reread that last post; this is not politics as usual: the Kabuki theatre of the country club rivalry. The current conflict is a Schmittian friend-enemy confrontation. For real. This is what history looks like. The new populism is an objective, existential threat to the ruling faction of the managerial class, and its ideology and raison d'être of managerial liberalism. And enough of them understand the stakes. Even if not enough of those in the populist movement do.

In the next several posts, I’ll be doing my best to help people understand what’s behind all this, further fleshing out what’s going on in this existential contest for the future.

So, if you haven’t already, please…