Trump is Amerexit

For those still mystified by the Trump movement, and who want to understand it, here's the basic gist.

Trump is Amerexit. Plain and simple. That is the source of the continuing energy behind his campaign.

If you don't get what that means, let me explain.

First, I can tell you that I'm making my statement of Trump being the Amerexit from weeks and weeks looking through many comments on the Donald subreddit, which even the mainstream media has declared to be the effective populist epicenter of the Trump campaign, and where the memes are generated and the plans debated most vigorously among his supporters.

I'm certain that 99% percent of the supporters would agree with the statement that a huge chunk of the reason for Trump's continuing success, if not the principal reason, is that Trump represents to them an effective independence movement of the United States from integrated control within formal and informal organs of globalized governance, which are identical at this point to what we call the Establishment.

As a way of illustrating this,  I would assert there is nearly 100% support among the Trump supporters on Reddit for the corresponding Brexit, which was about Britain leaving the EU.  Nigel Farage is held in nearly the same esteem as Trump. To Trump's supporters, and in his own rhetoric, Trump is about America essentially doing the same thing as Brexit,  but exiting not from the EU from the myriad existing and impending globalized arrangements of  which the EU is essentially one tier within a multi-layered and overlapping quilt of binding institutional frameworks.

Trump talks a lot about this in his speeches, but media tends to ignore this and even cut away when it comes up. It isn't considered a topic worth covering (classic advocacy by omission). 

In this sense Trump supporters are undeniably American nationalists, yet they almost universally support non-violent nationalist movements in other countries because they see all individual nations as fighting what they see as a common foe.

Those who don't like Trump, or don't get him, think this commonality with other nationalist movements is about racism and bigotry (anti-immigrant). If you go looking in a crowd of his supporters for manifestations of that, you will find it no doubt. Personally I think this says more about the thought processes of liberals more than anything else. Liberals are convinced that everyone else is as obsessed with race and class as they are, and they see this as motivation in everything.

Liberals, I assert, don't want to understand Trump. Keeping things on the level of "racism" etc., lets them shut their mind to what is going on, while feeling morally superior.

That's their right. But I would say, don't be surprised when Trump wins Pennsylvania by half a million votes and the Democrats get wiped out in the Electoral College. Keep fooling yourself with the "Hillary is wining" polls that ludicrously oversample Democrats by ten percent or more (and which also exclude third party candidates). Methinks the pollsters can't bear the thought that so many people disagree with them.

The globalized frameworks that the Trump Amerexit would have the U.S. step back from, at the very least, are exactly the same things Bernie Sanders was talking about in nearly all his speeches (and which were dutifully ignored by the media as well). Everyone knows that Hillary is not only favor of the globalized paradigm, but practically embodies it. She will sign the TPP on her first day in office if possible. Electing her will be like handing the country right over to the world community. That is, we all know that when it comes to making decisions, Hillary will wisely consult other foreign leaders above all, and bounce her ideas off them, to make sure they pass what John Kerry in 2004 called the "world test." Meetings in private planes, off the record, on tarmacs will be the standard of how things run. As for the American people, we can be assured that what is best for the world as a whole is always best for America too.

Many of her supporters think this is a great idea, or think it's no big deal. It represents progress to have the American federal government slowly merge into a larger global system (which is of course socialist and represents the progressive values of the advanced EU nations like Sweden, etc.). In any case, her advocacy of other issues is worth it to them (and Donald Trump must be stopped!). But even many Democrats think the "world test" stinks, and the whole game is geared towards tighter control and domination by a small group of insiders (it is). The Clinton campaign is going to go down in flames thinking they can keep re-inventing and re-introducing her to them.

Even the low-level unwashed of the Trump supporters, the rustic folk of the heartland, who couldn't name a country in the EU, get the idea that Trump is the Amerexit. These are the parts of the country that liberals won't go . There are too many hicks, etc (although they love parodying them. Many liberals seem to have an inner hick that they are ashamed of, and who is trying to get out).

Thus liberals they don't realize how many people are out there who don't see the world like they do. In large areas of the country, where the former industrial base has been gutted and left rotting, a great many people are sitting around on their porches and couches wanting nothing more than to feel like they have a purpose to their lives again that includes useful work, or raising a family in peace.  They are sick of being told they are the problem, and they just need to die off. They connect this desolation and deprivation to the long, slow globalization of America of the last seventy years. They want America to get out of it.

Meanwhile, liberals look at them, notice that there is a rebel flag decal on the car in the garage (maybe from Bubba in 1992)**, and say AHA I knew it and tconclude that the black folk are in danger. Like I said, liberals are obsessed with race and how it must be preserved as the defining feature of America society (just read that sentence again and think about).

Trump is succeeding because he is the first serious-threat presidential candidate of any party in decades to take his position vis-a-vis the system of globalized governance. Ross Perot was the last one, which demonstrates that being against the tide of globalization has been the surest way to get yourself labeled insane in the media. Both parties were completely on board with all of it. From 1989 onward, George Bush made it the hallmark of his presidency to bring it into being. Obama has completed much of the process, so that now America is to be considered a "good world citizen" that cooperates with other nations of the world (by handing sovereignty over at any demand). The vote for the TPP was hustled through Congress during the fanfare over Obergefell and the Charleston shooting (a sick ploy, if you ask me).  Obama was supposed to sign it with a quiet ceremony that would be barely mentioned on television (but would be celebrated as a world-changing event among the Establishment itself).

Ho hum. Just another treaty. Boring stuff. The stuff that actually drives history, and the fate of nations. The Establishment has always known this, which is why they needed to make it something that was just "common sense," that everyone could agree upon, and which therefore didn't even need to be mentioned in the political arena.

It hasn't worked out the way because globalism and the Establishment are failing, as I've mentioned repeatedly.  It has been failing for a while, but it finally got so moribund that it was ripe for someone like Trump to step in and build a movement out of it.

This, above all, is why the Establishment has to stop Trump. He is "literally Hitler" because he is for American sovereignty, which cannot be allowed to proceed. The Establishment cannot tolerate it, and they have convinced many liberals that American exceptionalism and nationalism, which was the driving force being the American war effort up to 1945, is actually equivalent to the very thing that the nation was fighting back then.

But the gig is up. Whatever happens with Trump, the spell is broken. The unchecked momentum of globalism as an inevitable process has been brought to a screeching halt not only by Trump (and Sanders) but also fatally by the Brexit vote. No one can pretend there isn't opposition anymore (although liberals will keep trying, by the attempt to deny everything I've said and bring it back to being about a temporary spasm of nativist hate).

Above all, the ability of the media to filter "acceptable" candidates for the Establishment is dead. To Establishment folks in the media, this feels like the end of the freaking world. It changes everything, now that we know it is possible to refuse to kow-tow the mediocracy when they label you a bigot, etc.

American politics has an opposition now , a real one, however crude. There is a movement. You may not like it, either its policy or its character. You may strongly disagree with it (as perhaps you are a fan of globalism), or you think it doesn't matter (it does)

But the Amerexit is what the Trump movement is really about, and it is happening, as globalism fails. The question is: what course will it take as it does?

As for Trump's undeniable crudity and sometimes downright vulgarity,* which at times can make his most ardent supporters blush,  this is what you get when you suppress the opposition for seven decades without even conceding that opposition could exist, and call anyone nuts for disagreeing with you.  If you are supporter of the Establishment, and a believer in globalism, and you want to know how Trump came about, then look in the mirror because you have no one to blame but yourself.

Fourth of July bonus: It's Trump-Ernst. You can bet the farm on it.***


*George Saunders correctly points out that this comes in large part from his unfiltered spontaneity.

**I was there, in Texas, and was a Clinton supporter (at least in the general election). I understand how these things happened, and that is was no big deal, just a way to connect with a certain demographic Certainly it wasn't the national campaign! No, no! Some peon did it on their own, of course, and was in no way reflective of the candidates themselves. Personally I think we should forgive them for this.

***Trump was uniquely positioned to utterly shun the Establishment and run a campaign on his own (the first since Perot, who didn't actually want to be president). He has been the tent pole of the entire movement, and had he not run, there would have been no movement at all. But now, especially after Brexit, there is a defined movement with its own momentum. So far Trump is utterly alone. I can tell you for certain that his supporters don't trust Gingrich, Christie, Corker or anyone else who has been steeped too long in the system. They pretty much assume that if something happened to President Trump, any of those folks would turn right around and sell out to the globalists in a heartbeat. They are hungry for a VP that they can at least pretend to trust as being devoted to the Amerexit.