The Morning After
Despite Trump’s loss, the tightness of the race led a variety of elites to wonder – how could this happen again? How could a significant portion of the electorate vote for someone that they had spent four years labeling racist? Any person with an iota of intelligence or self-awareness might be inclined to examine their own role in this national fiasco. Luckily, our elites can simply blame racism, avoiding the unthinkable – that maybe, just maybe, their arrogance, pettiness, and narcissism have something to do with the problem.
Let’s be clear – Trump was always meant to be a disruptor. He was elected because a significant portion of Americans thought the establishment needed a shakeup – the bureaucrats were too entrenched, the media was too arrogant and self-obsessed, and the politicians were too corrupt. Whether Trump himself fell into these same categories was largely irrelevant. Sometimes, the best way to clear out the rats is to send in a snake. At any rate, he was pissing off the right people. For many, Trump served the same purpose as a primal scream and, if our elite classes were smart, they would have taken the hint.
At this point, it’s hard to argue the disruption worked. For better or worse, America will never be the same. Whether we move forward or collapse into racially-motivated infighting remains to be seen, but it’s clear which way the majority party will move things. With the Democrats in charge and corporate America largely on board, prepare to be served a big plate of racial self-flagellation.
Racial Self-Flagellation
America is now ruled by a party that hates it – in particular, a party that maintains power through racially-extortionist rhetoric and intersectional majoritarianism. Expect the next two to four years to consist of nonstop racial self-flagellation sponsored by corporate America in partnership with our political class. The instinct to put everything in racial terms has already begun with complaints of a double standard for the Capitol Hill riots – ironic since Republicans immediately condemned the riots whereas Democratic politicians aided, abetted, and cheer-led four years of BLM and anti-Kavanaugh riots.
It’s hard to blame these cloistered, ivory-tower elites for riding the horse that got them there – after all, Kamala Harris is the Vice President explicitly because she is black and a woman*. Ilhan Omar has made quite a life for herself after fleeing Somalia by preaching about what a racist hellhole the country that took her in and elected her to Congress is. As for LeBron James, Mark Cuban, and the rest of corporate America, focusing on racism in America comfortably allows them to keep playing the racial justice card while actively running cover for racial persecution in China, maintaining both their public image as good guys and their fragile egos.
Racism and its continuing existence in American life are also critical to leftist elites in another way. Over the past four years – most notably the past year – cancel culture has emerged as elites in media, tech, and academia crackdown on those diverging from the hard left line. Racism is the cover used by powerful progressives like Jack Dorsey to punish or silence those deemed insufficiently progressive – it’s akin to calling someone a ‘communist’ in 1950s Hollywood. After that, the evidence is moot as the antiracist mob rears its ugly head.
Anti-American Unity
It’s also important to point out that the Democrats have a razor-thin majority and relatively major differences in both policy and tactics – ranging from Manchin’s calls for new bipartisanship to Pelosi’s personal pettiness to AOC’s calls to purge anyone with a right-of-center view from public life. The policy debates don’t look much better. For the past four years, what has united the Democrats has been their collective hysteria over a fat orange guy. With Trump gone, where are the Democrats to find a common enemy to unite them?
The answer is anti-racism. Of course, if you peel back the layers of anti-racism, you’ll find it’s little more than anti-Americanism and anti-white racism. The entire gospel of anti-racism is that America – particularly white America – is an inherently racist nation that must constantly self-flagellate for its original sin of racism. Opinions are only worth as much as the oppression points of the person expressing them.
We are so racist that we can’t even see our racism – that’s why they never have to point to overtly racist acts, they can simply claim white privilege or accuse their targets of using ‘dog whistle’ rhetoric. The nice thing about dog whistles is that you can always SAY someone you dislike is using one since, by definition, they can’t be heard outside the intended audience. Anyone not hearing the dog whistles or not checking their white privilege simply isn’t as enlightened or intelligent as the anti-racist educating them – and, of course, anyone wondering whether the racism in question actually exists is a racist who needs to be canceled.
Therefore, over the next two to four years, expect the racialized rhetoric of the Omars and AOCs to take center stage. Corporations have learned that they can use BLM messaging to simultaneously play to the racial justice crowd while humiliating ordinary Americans into overlooking their support for the Uyghur genocide/sweatshops/general sleaziness. As the Democrats fail to deliver on any appreciable policy initiatives, look to them to fall back onto the horse that got them there – racially browbeating Americans into submission.
*Sadly, whether or not Harris is qualified is irrelevant – you don’t get to say a job MUST be filled by a black woman and then cry racism when someone points out that those were the criteria used.