the maga right

Trump has attempted to create a kind of patrimonial and clientelist regime that many commentators have likened to a mafia family.

There’s a conception of the party on the one hand as a national populist movement on behalf of the Middle American working class, led by a Caesarist president, to smash the power of the “globalist” professional and managerial elite; and, on the other, as a radical libertarian project of administrative state demolition behind a populist facade.

According to Francis, Gramsci’s idea “recognizes that political power is ultimately dependent on cultural power—that human beings obey because they share, perhaps unconsciously, many of the assumptions, values, and goals of those who are giving them orders—and, second, that in order to challenge the dominance of any established authority, it is

When New York turned its lonely eyes to John Gotti, it was longing for another kind of authority than the type Giuliani had represented up to that point. It didn’t really want the law, universalism, meritocracy, rationality, bureaucracy, good government, reform, blind justice, and all that bullshit. The institutions had failed, the welfare state

They feared social collapse, a Great Tribulation, but in a sense they were both its products and its agents. Mainstream American society had stopped providing them with a plausible story: army service was demoralizing, the churches had nothing to say to them, materialism could not fill the gap, and all around them were signs of decay. The oldest

The affirmation of national and cultural identity as the core of the new nationalist ethic acquires special importance at a time when massive immigration, a totalitarian and antiwhite multiculturalist fanaticism, concerted economic warfare by foreign competitors, and the forces of antinational political globalism combine to jeopardize the cultural

the “new nationalism” would not “dwell on limiting the size of government but rather on the issue of who and what controls the government”; its purveyors should seek to seize the state and combat the elites who had effected the middle class’s “dispossession.”

he believed they ignored “the iron law of oligarchy” that governed political affairs, and that their egalitarianism was a revolt “against the ontological structure of reality itself.” Human beings were innately, biologically unequal, and the workings of the market would reveal the elect of the race. But the existence of the state disrupted the