Driven by the contradictory demands of his situation, and being at the same time, like a juggler, under the necessity of keeping the public gaze on himself, [with his promises to make America great again], by springing constant surprises – that is to say, under the necessity of arranging a coup d’état in miniature every day – [Trump] throws the whole bourgeois economy into confusion, violates everything that seemed inviolable to the [the conservatives of the deified, anti-Russian Ronald Regan], makes some tolerant of revolution and makes others lust for it, and produces anarchy in the name of order, while at the same time stripping the entire state machinery of its halo, profaning it and making it at once loathsome and ridiculous.
The [Trump] dynasty represents not the
revolutionary, but the conservative [worker]; not the [worker] who strikes out
beyond the condition of his social existence, [the factory or mining job], but rather one
who wants to consolidate [these professions]; not the [minimum wage workers] who in alliance with
the [urban youth) want to overthrow the old order through their own energies, but on
the contrary those who, in solid seclusion within this old order, want to see
themselves and their [blue collar jobs] saved and favored by the ghost of the
Empire. It represents not the enlightenment but the superstition of the
peasant; not his judgment but his prejudice; not his future but his past...
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