"A psychosis of negative polarisation"

[Donnadogsoth]

That was quoted from David Brooks on how the Trump effort was a "campaign of hate".  This got me thinking.  Was it a campaign of hate?  The campaign's pillars were:

 

ECONOMY:  we hate the process of deindustrialisation caused by free trade.

 

SECURITY:  we hate horrible killers and slavers both abroad and home caused by bad foreign policy.

 

IDENTITY:  we hate being submerged in alienness, especially illegal alienness, caused by multiculturalism.

 

In all three areas Americans are being threatened, white America all the more so, and especially white middle aged men.  I predicted privately a wave of white male suicides should Trump lose, and happily I will never know if my prediction would have panned out.

 

The common denominator of hatred here is that free trade, bad foreign policy, and multiculturalism are all traceable to the Establishment government.  Whether that government is incompetent, insane, or conspiratorially malicious is, in a sense, moot and fungible.  It remains an evil and evils by their nature are hated to the degree that their victims are aware of what those evils are doing to them.

 

So, I would agree that Donald Trump ran a campaign based on hate, but a hate that is predicated on love for one's self, one's family, and one's countrymen.  Very bad forces have been doing very bad things to America and to the world, and that renders them hateful.  Trump is the only candidate with the balls to name it for what it is and lead a movement to stop it.  Sometimes the only way forward is to negate the negation.

 

 

 

[deadflagblues]

Every election campaign can be called a campaign of hate by sophists who have no arguments and do not like what is being campaigned for or against. A campaign for coffee is a campaign of hate to tea justice warriors.