I am reading that Trump has driven a wedge between voters. The wedge wasn’t created by Trump. He isn’t the divisive figure he’s made out to be. The wedge is a fundamental disagreement over whether we have, on the one hand, a republic where the ethics of individual liberty and popular democracy are upheld, or whether, on the other, we suffer the technocratic rule of a corporate state apparatus and its attendant administrative state run by executives, professional managers, and elite-picked experts.
The division in America is deep and objective. trump is calling attention to it. Trump is one of those making the choice obvious by speaking like an ordinary person and not condescending to the public. That’s why the establishment hates him so much. He’s a raiser of mutual knowledge through plain speak. He is the leader of a social movement that threatens entrenched power. So does RFK, Jr. The establishment hates him just as much. Maybe more. And for the same reason: populism.
On October 9, Robert Kennedy will announce that he is running as an independent. Kennedy can’t win the Democratic primary the way Trump did in the much more democratic system Republicans (the original populist party) developed. The Democratic primary is rigged.
Some Republicans believe that Kennedy running as an independent is a strategy by Democrats to divide the Trump vote. But really it will divide the Democrat vote. Kennedy is the embodiment of what many Democrats used to believe—or at least said they believed. There are likely scores of rank-and-file Democrats who have been waiting their entire lives to vote for a Bobby Kennedy. I know I have. I know others.
This will be a contest between two populists—if they don’t jail (or worse) Trump or Kennedy. Biden will look as lost and alone as he does when Barack Obama shows up at the White House. Good luck to Democrats finding 81 million votes again. The corporate state apparatus can’t manufacture enough votes to stop the populist train. Democrats are in real trouble. And it’s glorious.
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A Florida movie theater in Pompano Beach, Florida. A white dude, 63-year-old Marc Cohen, asked a black dude, 27-year-old Jesse Montez Thorton II, for his reserved seats, in which Thorton and a girl who was with him were sitting. He got some reparations for his trouble. The beating was savage. Cohen suffered several injuries to his head and face and was taken to a hospital for treatment. If this were in a woke state the charges would’ve be dismissed or reduced to a misdemeanor. Because it’s Florida, Thorton was arrested and faces one count of aggravated battery with great bodily harm. Still, it took a two-months-long investigation before police moved to arrest Thorton.
Here’s the video from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office: 11-2307-003641.mp4. Sorry to be so real about this, but I’m sick of the shit and spin. Anti-white and anti-Asian bigotry is a real problem in America and we know from where it comes and who’s feeding it: woke progressives with their antiracist gospel. You cannot preach that white-run society is racist and owes a debt to blacks and not expect that some black people will hear this as permission to take matters into their own hands. I’ve been writing about this for several years (see, e.g., Why are there so Many More White than Black Victims of Interracial Homicide? Race and Violent Death in America).
I wonder whether this incident will get the same level of attention a white congresswoman got for showing affection in a theater? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course it won’t.
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