Terminology differs.\u00a0 Alt-Right, Dissident Right, Alt-West and a few other designations exist for folks at the angrier edge of the Right-Wing.\u00a0 These are folks who think it\u2019s essentially too late to try to salvage the United States as presently comprised.\u00a0 There is an underlying premise that dissolution and re-assembly into more than one fragment is the only and desired outcome.\u00a0 And this has always dismayed me.\u00a0 The idea that human beings cannot live under a single government that can even-handedly allow them to co-exist and prosper with the maximum of freedom and prosperity seems odd.\u00a0 Even if the Alt-Right premises about unequal talents and differing preferences in life style are completely true I still don\u2019t see why the advantages of the American way of life can\u2019t continue to generate freedom and happiness.\u00a0 But that\u2019s their belief, that it can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
But I have noticed lately on a few of the sites that I check a sort of moderating mood or attitude.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if Trump\u2019s successes are starting to encourage even these folks to think that maybe there is some hope of turning things around.\u00a0 And maybe I\u2019m just picking up the general glow of happiness that comes from seeing leftist heads explode.\u00a0 But I believe I detect a hint of optimism for the American Project.<\/p>\n
Let me add another qualifier.\u00a0 I have read opinions on these sites that under the best of circumstances Trump may be able to delay the collapse of America by some short number of years.\u00a0 And maybe the reaction I\u2019m seeing is just the relaxation attendant on this temporary reprieve.\u00a0 Sort of like the seventh inning stretch.\u00a0 Well, either way, it appears a certain upbeat attitude seems to be suffusing the apocalyptic crew on the far right.\u00a0 And I\u2019m definitely good with that.\u00a0 I have a happily ever afterward daydream where the country wakes up and corrects the excesses and abuses that Democrats and liberal Supreme Court Justices have inflicted upon us.\u00a0 In this fantasy the Alt-Right eventually grudgingly accepts that they will have to forego bloody insurrection and just settle for the antagonistic and imperfect multi-ethnic and multi-racial melting pot that is the best-case scenario for human interaction that has ever been stumbled upon.<\/p>\n
But daydreams aside, regardless of which scenario we are dealing with, lately I find myself unjustifiably optimistic.\u00a0 Realistically, the best President Trump can do, even assuming two full terms and Republican majorities in Congress, is begin the job of repairing some of the damage.\u00a0 And then we have to have a capable new president who can continue the work, one who can work for eight years and cement the changes already made into established policy.\u00a0 The odds of this are pretty slim.\u00a0 But compared to where we were under \u201cPresident Black Lives Matter,\u201d we\u2019re living in Shangri-La.\u00a0 So, why shouldn\u2019t we feel upbeat?\u00a0 Why, just this week I saw a headline from the New York Times (which, of course, I didn\u2019t click on) that said that maybe that blue wave in the midterms might not actually occur.\u00a0 Something about the tax bill actually being popular after all (who\u2019da thunk it?).<\/p>\n
So, I\u2019m going to join my brethren on the far right and put aside gloom and doom for at least the time being.\u00a0 This may render me less intense.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be much harder to build up a good head of outrage.\u00a0 But by the same token I predict my schadenfreude and snark will be that much stronger.\u00a0 In fact, I definitely feel a \u201cTrump vs \u2026\u201d post incubating as we speak.<\/p>\n
So, rejoice my brethren and sistren, the Millennium is upon us (again?) and we will enter the Promised Land humming the opening music from The Apprentice and joyfully carrying aloft our banners adorned with the golden device of the Trumpian Comb-Over as we tread those shining streets of gold (apologies to Saint John the Divine).<\/p>\n
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