y el fin del imperio americano, fragmentos sacaos del Weekly Worker:
The streaming platforms were largely built as an extension of the video games industry, Twitch being the most famous, allowing large audiences to watch players in action and listen to their running commentary;
As befits its origins as a gaming phenomenon, the audience for political streaming skews young and male. It is thus prone to a certain adolescent exuberance in its content. Fuentes first found fame as an influencer within the ‘incel’ community - “involuntary celibates”, who have constructed an elaborate identity structure around their failure to achieve carnal relations with women. The community is roughly divided between those who attempt to rectify this situation through cynical manipulation of what they take to be the basic relation between the sexes (what used to be called ‘pickup artistry’), and those who accept what they take to be their fate (the ‘black-pilled’).
(...)It is first of all clear from the Telegram leaks that the traditional organisations of the American right have absorbed many individuals fundamentally shaped by post-Trump, racist paleo-conservatism. For a long time, there was something of a bright line between the new Trump-focused organisations and stodgy old suit-and-tie outfits like the Young Republicans, but the latter’s New York chapter had already been effectively annexed by the new right, and the infection seems to have spread. If even the Heritage Foundation cannot take decisive action here, clearly the terrain has changed.
Secondly, it is clear that the question of Israel is a source of grievous division among the Republicans and further right, as it is among Democrats. Issue polling now finds drastically reduced support for Israel among Republican voters, sometimes with pluralities in favour of suspending such support.
There was now a far more ‘Bonapartist’ structure in place: the big man at the top, supported by various institutions characterised by, again, absolute personal loyalty. Trump’s tendency to reward people in proportion to perceived loyalty, and his mercurial character (and plausible senescence), means that political shifts are often chaotic. The chokehold of traditional conservative media has been broken, though the alt-media operations are ultimately outlets for the same billionaire money as everyone else. At the base, Americans are more atomised than ever, and capillary mechanisms of political organisation are withering. (The typical religious profile of a 2024 Trump voter was a Christian who does not go to church.)
The result is inevitably a great confusion of ideas - some whimsical, some earnest, some callously malicious. Above all, though, they are spectacular and oddly untethered from reality; they come and go easily.
Underlying this, ultimately, is the problem of relative US decline, which has played out in the usual fashion with deindustrialisation, rampant inequality between individuals and also between localities, and a series of attempts to reassert global military-strategic dominance with decidedly mixed results. The benefits of living in the ‘greatest country on earth’ are no longer obvious. Successive administrations have failed to disengage from the Middle East and Europe, pursuant to the long-heralded pivot to Asia. Trump’s national security strategy clearly paved the way for the Venezuelan escapade of last week, but the immediate consequence seems to be even greater overstretch.
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