We have un-paywalled the Trump as Myth article for a while. I woke up today to people telling me it was eerily prescient, even before I heard the news.

Politics is not about debate. It’s not about tactics. And its not about facts.

It’s about myth.

Unless and until the right grasps this, it will not win.

https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/trump-as-myth

🇺🇸 Perhaps you have already seen all of these takes today, but I will share them anyway.

1. Was it due to extreme incompetence or malice that a sniper was able to almost kill the former (and future) President?

Whichever it was, Trump needs a new security detail. Competent military men loyal to him. Or at least competent military men who take their job seriously.

2. Trump has the protection of higher powers (perhaps his Guardian Angel). There are plenty of historical examples of great men having divine protection (perhaps the most notable example is Alexander, who danced with death during his entire life).

3. Everyone, regardless of their view of Trump, must admire his composure and spirit. The stuff of legend!

4. Although the battle is not quite black and white, there is certainly a side with better people (i.e. those who support Trump) and a side with worse people (i.e. those who are against him). This event, perhaps more than any, should get people to sympathise with his cause.

5. Who is to blame?

There are many who are to blame. Perhaps the most obvious one would be the mainstream media (and other voices of the Liberal-Left) who have portrayed Trump as the Devil for the last eight years.

Continuously demonising someone tends to have the (desired) effect that people use violence against said someone (in this case, Trump).

5. From the perspective of an agent of European civilisation, it does perhaps not matter whether Trump wins or not (it does, because everything matters, but this is a different discussion). However, one can still hope for the success of the protagonist in any drama.

In this case, it is clear that Trump is the 'main character', the one worthy of our sympathies – as opposed to the villains who have thrown everything they have at him for years now. His inexhaustible energy and never-quit mentality are inspiring.

6. That the US has become an increasingly unstable and deteriorating society should not come as any news. Here, however, we have reached a new threshold.

We are reaching late Roman Republic hours!

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Man's blind reason, his weak will, and the ridiculous vitality of his carnal longings appeared to him so pitiable that all words in every human language do not suffice to express the complete lowness of this creature. Had God not become man, the reptile that my foot tramples would have been less contemptuous than a human being: "El reptil que piso con mis piés, seria á mis ojos menos despreciable que el hombre." The stupidity of the masses was just as apparent to him as was the silly vanity of their leaders. His awareness of sin was universal; he was even more horrified than a Puritan. No Russian anarchist in asserting that "man is good" expressed a greater degree of elementary conviction than the Spanish Catholic who said: Since God has not said it to him, whence does he know that he is good? "De donde sabe que es noble si Dios se lo ha dicho?" The despair of this man, as can be gathered from his letters to his friend Count Raczyński, often bordered on insanity; according to his philosophy of history, the victory of evil is self-evident and natural, and only a miracle by God can avert it. The pictures in which his impressions of human history were objectified were full of dread and horror: Humanity reels blindly through a labyrinth that we call history, whose entrance, exit, and shape nobody knows; humanity is a boat aimlessly tossed about on the sea and manned by a mutinous, vulgar, forcibly recruited crew that howls and dances until God's rage pushes the rebellious rabble into the sea so that quiet can prevail once more. But the typical picture is a different one: the bloody decisive battle that has flared up today between Catholicism and atheist socialism.

According to Donoso Cortés, it was characteristic of bourgeois liberalism not to decide in this battle but instead to begin a discussion. He straightforwardly defined the bourgeoisie as a "discussing class," 𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢. It has thus been sentenced. This definition contains the class characteristic of wanting to evade the decision. A class that shifts all political activity onto the plane of conversation in the press and in parliament is no match for social conflict. The insecurity and immaturity of the liberal bourgeoisie of the July Monarchy can be recognized everywhere. Its liberal constitutionalism attempted to paralyze the king through parliament but permitted him to remain on the throne, an inconsistency committed by deism when it excluded God from the world but held onto his existence...

Dictatorship is the opposite of discussion. It belongs to the decisionism of one like Donoso Cortés to assume the extreme case, to anticipate the Last Judgment. That extremist cast of mind explains why he was contemptuous of the liberals while he respected atheist-anarchist socialism as his deadly foe and endowed it with a diabolical stature. In Proudhon he claimed to see a demon. Proudhon laughed about it, and alluding to the Inquisition as if he were already on the funeral pyre, he called out to Donoso Cortés: Ignite it! The satanism of that period was not an incidental paradox but a powerful intellectual principle.

— Carl Schmitt, Political Theology

"It is a question of becoming a master over occultation and revelation. Once one realizes that alethea (un-concealment or dis-closure) is the proper conception of Truth, not veritas (representational verisimilitude), one can make things disappear by becoming a master of what remains occulted and what is revealed or reified from out of that occulted ‘background’ (what Heidegger called abgrund)."

– Jason Reza Jorjani, PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE

Epicurus' "tetrapharmakos":

Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός.
ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατος.
καὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον,
τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον.

Don't fear god.
Don't worry about death.
The good is easy to get,
The terrible is easy to endure.

Cattle die, kinsmen die; the self must also die. I know one thing which never dies: the reputation of each dead man.
— Hávamál

"Such moments, when victory hangs by the finest of threads, are when true leadership is displayed, when the electrifying power of individual courage and charisma triumphs over adversity and inspires ordinary men to greatness. Such moments are precious and rare, like gold dust, but they are real nonetheless."

My latest opinion piece on Trump's legendary display of courage in the face of death.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/it-takes-more-than-that-to-kill-a-bull-moose/

Noi Arditi
✍🏼 Mario Carli