A fist to free them. The assault on Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has been shot at. He defiantly raises his fist shortly after recovering from the graze on his ear. An image to remember. "Fight!" It is a fight for liberation that he is calling for. They are always liberation fights, because nobody fights for lack of freedom. What does he want Trump's supporters to liberate themselves from?It is not the liberation from violence - on the contrary. It becomes the means in the holy struggle against all the enemies who are (supposedly) violent themselves or will be. The strategy is as old as it is infantile: Resist! Against what is a question that is successively clarified. Little by little, the enemies become clear. It is not about the individual followers liberating themselves, but about the calculation of allegiance. Everyone and everything that stands in the way of the grand calculation becomes an enemy. Everyone and everything that helps the individual to release frustration. It is liberating to dish it out. What is currently being called left-green-versified or woke is a catch-all for all those in the pluralistic soup of free democracies who are not in favor of the cause. In other words, everyone else. As I said, it will become clear who belongs and who does not. Who cranes […]