No, Trump Is Not An “Authoritarian”
Trump stands so far above anyone else because he will park his tanks on lawns mainstream Conservatism and Republicanism lost generations ago. And he will do it in a way where it really exposes what the other side are and even what many self declared moderates and centrists are.
Deportation for instance fully exposes just how much the other side hate their own people. To oppose all deportation is to obviously fight for violent gang members, foreign criminals, South American rapists and the like in a way that makes it obvious it’s not about kindness, justice, empathy or any of the claimed virtues. It’s about actually wanting your own people harmed.
The flag burning EO is another perfect example. When progressives and centrists go batshit over that and call it authoritarian they think people will buy the line that they are defending free speech and action. But what people see is that they never took this freedom approach on anything else or when patriots were targeted, so the only time they care about freedom: is when it’s the freedom to hate your own nation.
At the time when ordinary people in other countries rebel by waving their own national flag and the authorities attack that while fetishising Pride and Ukraine flags, Trump’s EO again shows him on the side of actually liking your own nation and people. It exposes that it’s not a free speech issue-it’s a loyalty issue and the reason people are exercised about it is that they hate their nation and are working for its destruction.
Each time what’s called authoritarian is just sane, sensible readjustment after years of one sided tyranny repressing and destroying normal loyalties and ideas. Trump picks the issues that make the rampant insanity and disloyalty of the other side totally explicit. He forces them to make it clear that they hate the flag because they hate the country. Even supposed centrists can’t get away with it anymore and we see that their alleged above the fray values are actually always aligned with radical leftism.
The flag burning EO and the museums policy and the universities policies and the policing of D.C. will be cast as authoritarian and will all fail in that propaganda portrayal. Because what each actually does is remove a boot from the neck of ordinary people, rather than impose one. It was scumbag radicals burning the flag who were the authoritarians imposing their twisted values on others. It was DEI policies that were unjust and discriminatory. It was putting progressive propaganda everywhere and forcing people to bow down to it that was authoritarian.
The reversal by definition cannot be authoritarian even if it uses State power because it’s restoring the freedom of ordinary people from being physically threatened by anarcho-tyranny and the effects of radical progressive alignment with violent nation haters, invaders and criminals.
