The End Of A Story

Guest Post by The Zman

One of the things that was debated on the fringes of politics the last few years is whether this period was a replay of the late-60’s and early 70’s or a replay of the early and mid-60’s. Were we heading to some new and much worse phase of radicalism or was this a rear guard action as this spasm of radicalism burned itself out? Put another way, was this the dawning of the age of Jonquarius or the sunset of the radical awakening that was kicked off in the 2000 election?

The outright theft of the 2020 election tells us that we are probably witnessing the end point of a radical phase, rather than a beginning. The reason, to stick with the historical comparison, is that Trump is clearly Nixon in this drama. The Left, which controls both the aesthetic and the cultural norms of official Washington, reacted to Trump just as their analogs reacted to Nixon a half century ago. They were willing to break every rule to get rid of him and finally did it.

The way they have rid themselves of Trump is interesting for a few reasons. One is that they did it in reverse order this time. For a backward age, in which everything is a deliberate attempt to reboot old franchises, running the old Nixon playbook in reverse suggests the cosmic forces have a sense of style. Instead of rigging an election to keep Nixon out and then impeaching him after he got into Washington, they impeached Trump first and then rigged the election to throw him out.

Those old enough to remember Nixon will recall that long after Nixon was gone, the Left still groused about the man. They made movies trying to portray him as worse than they painted him while in office. They used him as a pejorative when assaulting Republican political opponents. Everything that made lefty sad in the 1980’s was called Nixonian, as if Nixon was the face of evil in the world. Nixon was a great enemy that served them so well, they could not bear to let him go.

You can be sure this will be true of Trump. In order to keep their conservative toadies in line they will be calling them “Trumpian” whenever they dare speak out of turn or show any signs of life. Republicans, of course, will fully embrace the term to police their ranks for anyone that questions the oligarchs. For the political industrial complex, the Trump era will be like a brush with death. It will color their perspective on everything and modify their politics long after Trump has left their midst.

To further bolster the analogy is the fact that Biden is a vegetable. Carter came in after Nixon, but exactly no one in Washington respected carter. They laughed at him to his face and treated him like a servant. They were slightly embarrassed by him, but he was a necessary place holder, so he was tolerated. That’s Biden. He was installed as the nominee and now president because the political class does not know where they go from here, so they put in a place holder.

With Carter, the promise was that all the professional hacks would get their jobs back and begin to rebuild an activist foreign policy and continue remaking the post-industrial economy, while the establishment found some better front men. This is why the neocons were all on the Mumbly Joe bandwagon. They expect to slither back into the foreign policy side and begin preparing for war with Iran next decade. The bankers will get their men back in to restart the globalism process.

The thing to keep in mind with historical analogies is they are never perfect and only a fool gets hung up on that fact. They’re comparisons, not replications. The reason they are useful is people don’t change all that much from generation to generation. The people who pushed out Nixon in the 1970’s are not all that different from the people involved in the coup against Trump. Many were around back then. That means they will react to the aftermath in a similar way.

That said, the differences are important. There is no conservative movement brewing this time to be a useful gatekeeper for the establishment. Conservatism has been so discredited; few Trump supporters will be fooled by their efforts to legitimize the shenanigans that have gone on during Trump. They will try, of course, but the result will be a further discrediting of themselves. Too many people are wise to that game now for it to work on anyone but the extremely stupid.

Further, there is no new thing on the horizon this time. The reason Buckley-style conservatism got off the ground is the people in charge immediately saw it would be a useful foil for them in the charade of democracy. Buckley’s over-the-top Brahman act legitimized conservatism. A vulgar little dwarf like Ben Shapiro is never going to be able to pull that off. The fact is, the bench of Conservative Inc. is full of misfits and mediocrities, best suited for parody, not legitimacy.

The point here is this era is probably not the beginning of the end as many disappointed dissidents would have you believe. There will be no internment camps for racists or truth and reconciliation commissions. Instead of the beginning of the end it is just the end of a cycle of radicalism. Just as the New Left spent their last bit of fervor ejecting Nixon from Washington, our woke crazies of this age have spent themselves now. Their reason to exist is about to leave town.

Further, this may signal the end of another story. That story is the tale of the American Empire that began in the middle of the last century. After conquering Western Europe and much of Asia, the American Empire engaged in a long face-off with the Soviet Empire. Just as the Peloponnesian was a multi-generational affair, the Cold War spanned close to three generations. It changed the culture of America and cast a long shadow after it was over.

The first truly imperial generation rose up in the middle of the last century too. They remade the culture and economy in their image. The story of the last 70 years has been the story of that generation, but just as the empire is in decline, so is that generation. The weird backward-looking nature of modern politics, the endless cycle of reboots and remakes in Hollywood, the stalling of technological advance, all suggest we have reached an end point.

The multi-generational cycle that was kicked off with the start of the Cold War and the struggle between two global empires may be reaching its end. All the old purposes that drove that cycle are gone now. There are no communists. There are no Nazis to hunt as a reminder to remain vigilant. Every battle in the culture war has been won. There is nothing left to do, so the imperial generation has been replaying old fights in a politics of nostalgia, but now their time has come to an end.

That is probably what we are witnessing. The generation that made a fetish of free speech, good government and democracy, is now closing the show with censorship, corruption and now the undermining of democratic legitimacy. They are not doing this because of Trump or what he represents, but as one last replay of a drama that has outlived its reason to exist. It’s fitting that the capstone of this generation’s nostalgia politics will be a man who cannot remember yesterday.

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Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic
November 6, 2020 2:35 pm

It’s not over yet. The Electoral College’s final vote isn’t until January.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Vixen Vic
November 6, 2020 8:50 pm

Can you expand your comment?

ICE-9
ICE-9
  Glock-N-Load
November 6, 2020 10:53 pm

I’ll add in. State legislatures certify the winner of their state’s presidential election. Republicans control the state legislatures in several swing states and despite having Dem governors and assorted apparatchiks. The state legislatures can just certify Trump the winner even if he has fewer votes and send the electoral votes for him.

This happened in the 1876 presidential election. Voter fraud was so bad that FL, SC, and LA legislatures certified Rutherford B. Hayes as their state winners despite him receiving fewer votes that his Dem opponent. Hayes was eventually sworn in. It’s the nuclear option but it was used once.

Republicans state legislatures would have to really grow some pairs for this course but it is on the table and I hope Trump has it in his list of options.

pyrrhuis
pyrrhuis
November 6, 2020 3:03 pm

It’s not over at all…If Trump wins the PA case, which should be a slam dunk legally, he has excellent chances to prevail…but I agree with the general sentiment of the article…Now that the charade of democracy has evaporated, what next? Hopefully, it’s the Articles of Confederation or something comparable…

Anonymous
Anonymous
  pyrrhuis
November 7, 2020 8:14 am

Dude its fucking over ok. Its ok. It was over decades ago. It just took time to realize it and allow the change to happen. Either embrace this fourth turning and find a way to live in it with joy or you die or worst case live in a life full of non joy. People on the right are too selfish to ban together. Too scared of losing their little nest eggs. They hope they can endure with what little they have. Deep down they all know they will die in a ditch naked like a jew with no assets….but they want to hold on the their fake lives as long as they can…..i suggest we all work on a plan to live and enjoy our lives or completely go all in with bloody bloody revolution. You must pick one. But this hope shit is fucking bullshit. This everything will work out. And pray. Is all bull fuckin shit. Wake the fuck up. I was just hoping to have 4 more years to save and prep. Then i thought the change would allow 2-6 more years. Essentially proving me a other decade. Now….I have less than two years. When the 2022 election comes its really over. They will stack the courts and we have 58 states of America. And immediately afterwards in 2023 they ban all guns outright. Personal property will have a green tax on it.

I highly suggest if you want to live in privacy with peace you better get property that would offer carbon offsets. Otherwise you that live middle class in nice 4000 sqft mcmansions will become the next section 8 dweller.

Laugh now. But you will remember i said it. Swamp land, estuaries large land tracts with trees will be worth MORE than gold for the political wielding power and carbon footprint offsets they will offer.

The smaller the city you own them in the more protected you are….and I do know what the fuck I am talking about…..

so after that what then?
so after that what then?
November 6, 2020 6:46 pm

also-people grow up–they marry, have children, buy homes, worry about old age, the rioters of today will be 8 years older after Trump and Biden and the Harris/Pelosi term(s), and will be the conservatives of the future, it was ever thus-

overthecliff
overthecliff
November 6, 2020 9:00 pm

Thought provoking essay Z. Remember that unlike Nixon ringing out the Awakening what is happening now is the Crisis of the 4th Turning. Hope I live to see the conclusion.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 7, 2020 8:01 am

History proves every single country will experience genocide at some point. A population culling if you will. It would not count based sheerly on numbers regarding the native American. That was simple conquest. Genocide is a preplanned ordained legal brainwashed movement. The closest we came was the Salem witch trials but that was more about politics at a local level than anything else. Of course catty wives clubs finest moment.

Whats next for America is looking back since 1990. We have really healed fully race relations. The only race baiters is the jesse jackson, col8n kapernicks, obama and democrats all using it to get rich. Real racism is gone from everyday lives. Black and white. There are 497 fake racism news for every one real one.

The next 20 years they will overtake the white race 8 to 1. Immigration like you have never seen. To make the 1900’s great immigration look like a ferry ride. They will then have it fixed with Puerto Rico, DC as States and California as 5 states and a stacked Supreme Court. They will ultimately have a full on dictatorship with a smile. We wont have a Maduro or Hitler looking leader. But more of a Kamala or Hillary. They need the fake softness of a woman in charge of this fucking nightmare. They will remove such laws as affirmative action when whites can no longer be hidden as a minority.

Ever ask yourself why people from Spain are of the protected class here with Affirmative Action etc and are considered hispanic. But their neighbors in Italy that immigrate here are considered white by our govt? My cousin recently immirgated from Italy and his best friend is from Spain and he too came over. When they went through the proper channels his Spaniard friend had all sorts of free things. College, benefits, Income, welfare, etc etc. My Italian cousin got an American flag pen and a list of agencies and charities to help him from education, language, jobs, housing etc. And they stared at him as if asking why he was still in the chair…..I am not kidding. I was there with them the entire time…..

They will tell you who is the enemy or favored. They have been doing so by color of skin. Now that that is not working it is going to brown shirts and loyalty. Social governing like china is coming. Eventually that leads to abject poverty and tent cities for people on the right. Eventually the left won’t like that form or homelessness like they do now in California. They will eradicate them. It will be a great culling. The American Genocide. The right will be purged and the victors write the history books and we will be known as racist that built a once great society based on slavery and selfishism. They cannot ever allow it to be know Capitalism or for God’s sake that a Republic worked well…..that freedom was enjoyed…..

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 7, 2020 8:40 am

“ The weird backward-looking nature of modern politics, the endless cycle of reboots and remakes in Hollywood, the stalling of technological advance, all suggest we have reached an end point.”

We will see this leftist generation bring forth all the repressed and suppressed tech. Remember they guy BPOil killed and stole his patent to make an engine run off water. Yea that car will be here in 10 years. Guaranteed. Much of the mergers and acquisitions that have occurred has been From large corps taking competitor superior tech and suppressing it. calculated Obsolescence is profitable. Corp engineers now have a mandate to build things to last a highly specific number of uses. The new leftist as they grow in power and take senior corp control positions will keep their lefty tree hugging ideology And fuck shareholders by allowing longevity of product uses and better tech to prevail. Afterall in a fedcoin world money is nothing more than a means of power. Control it like food with social control by Apple and iphones and twitter postings and boom you don’t need money. Fedcoin is a means of transactions to verify your compliance. Is all it Is…

“All the old purposes that drove that cycle are gone now. There are no communists. There are no Nazis to hunt as a reminder to remain vigilant. Every battle in the culture war has been won. There is nothing left to do, so the imperial generation has been replaying old fights in a politics of nostalgia, but now their time has come to an end.

That is probably what we are witnessing. The generation that made a fetish of free speech, good government and democracy, is now closing the show with censorship, corruption and now the undermining of democratic legitimacy. They are not doing this because of Trump or what he represents, but as one last replay of a drama that has outlived its reason to exist. It’s fitting that the capstone of this generation’s nostalgia politics will be a man who cannot remember yesterday.”

Wow what a statement. Sums up most of the selfish boomer generation almost as if saying “if I can’t have it nobody can”! Fatalistic at a minimum. They are so fucking vain and selfish and angry they cannot live forever they want to burn the entire world down so that when they die they know everyone else must be scorched earth as well. If we took a poll I would say that generation as a whole would vote to blow up the world when they die. The world will be a better place without that entire generation. Yeah i said it. You know it is true. They fucked up the entire world. As bad as these little brainless brainwashed kids are today they will do better for earth than the fucking boomers. It will get bad first as they get their sea legs. But gen X is there to steer them in this fourth turning….