{"id":89943,"date":"2016-03-13T18:11:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89943"},"modified":"2016-03-13T18:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:12:39","slug":"what-is-trumpism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89943","title":{"rendered":"What Is Trumpism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/toward-a-sensible-coherent-trumpism\/\">Comments at Unz.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Trumpism transcends both the two parties and the two \u201caccepted \u201d ideologies. It is rooted in \u201cblood and soil, kith and kin.\u201d It is nativism, populism, and a welling up of a desperate sense that all might be lost \u2013 that the American experience was all for nothing. It is now or never, and if the latter, then devolution will proceed apace, and most likely not without violence.<\/p>\n<p>So Trumpism might best be termed AFFIRMATIONISM. We affirm ourselves, family, friends and associates, religion, culture, civilization, ethnicity, country, and even species. But this does not mean that we wish harm to others. For to value one\u2019s family does mean that one wishes harm to the family next door, just that we value our own higher. But any people that does not AFFIRM, is deleted from the world cultural and group genome pool.<\/p>\n<p>* Let me suggest some properties [of fascism]: nation, people (volk), military readiness, manly virtues, honor, mixture of aristocratic and democratic principles, racialism, and anti-liberalism. And lasts but not least the precipitating political factors for their appearance, for example, communism and jewish influence in communism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments at Unz.com: * Trumpism transcends both the two parties and the two \u201caccepted \u201d ideologies. 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