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…is no political lies in them. And then you get two only living options, in a bad sense also, I'm not for Trump, but it's Trumpian populism and it's so-called democratic socialists. And the problem here is that, of course, these four parties don't work…
…of mamdan is victory and i think there are big troubles ahead but nonetheless something unique happened He intelligently, he followed Trump. You know, the big democratic trauma of the democratic establishment in the United States is let's not move too much…
…the United States is let's not move too much to the left because then we will lose center. But why didn't they learn from Trump that it's the exact opposite which is true? How did Trump win? Not to play the center, but to state radically what is to…
…left because then we will lose center. But why didn't they learn from Trump that it's the exact opposite which is true? How did Trump win? Not to play the center, but to state radically what is to be said. And Mamdani got this, even maybe more than…
…they all are, in some sense, revolutionary. They want a substantial change. Why I make this ambiguous statement as if I like Trump? I follow here, here I agree with him, not everywhere, Varoufakis, who said the left was blah blah talking for decades, we…
…him, not everywhere, Varoufakis, who said the left was blah blah talking for decades, we have to move out of global politics. capitalism. Trump did it. Are we aware what Trump did with his studies and so on? He broke all the rules of a global market…
…said the left was blah blah talking for decades, we have to move out of global politics. capitalism. Trump did it. Are we aware what Trump did with his studies and so on? He broke all the rules of a global market and so on. And so where do I see…
…than 10 years ago. He said, we shouldn't worry about the center. We should target two white farmers, workers, who otherwise vote for Trump. They are our public. We should target them. This is what Mamdami did, and he won in a quite surprising way. I…
…York, getting it over and then connect with many other states where democratic socialists are. You know what's so ridiculous? When Trump said Mamdani is a pure communist, sorry, are we aware where we are? Measured by what social democracy meant when Harold…
…there, but do you notice the miracle of COVID? A big lesson for the left. Even guys like your Boris Johnson or Trump, they were doing measures which, I'm sorry, were almost chorbally radical socialist, even communist elements of this, how do you call it,…
…the system will collapse and so on. But you know what happened in the time of COVID? All the rules were broken. Even Trump evoked that law from early 50s, where it says that in the... critical situation, the government can order companies what to produce…
…I rewrote it to fit today's situation. I'm sorry if you know it. The three big guys today. Putin, Xi, Xi the Chinese, and Trump confront God, each can ask a question. First, Putin says, how will it be? We will occupy Ukraine, we will be masters of…
…well. You will have not to occupy Taiwan, but to rely on Taiwan and France. He turns around and starts to cry. Then Trump, probably you know if you are minimally Hegelian, in Hegelian reflexivity, what will be the end? Trump says, so what will be with…
…around and starts to cry. Then Trump, probably you know if you are minimally Hegelian, in Hegelian reflexivity, what will be the end? Trump says, so what will be with my great America ten years from now? God turns around and starts to cry. That's what I…
…my great America ten years from now? God turns around and starts to cry. That's what I meant by that of God. Trump is something so new, it's desperate. He changed the rules radically. Let's use the opportunity. Instead of this fixation of how horrible…
…is something so new, it's desperate. He changed the rules radically. Let's use the opportunity. Instead of this fixation of how horrible Trump is, which is a lie, I think. Yes, Trump is horrible. But he's horrible because he correctly detected what was the…
…radically. Let's use the opportunity. Instead of this fixation of how horrible Trump is, which is a lie, I think. Yes, Trump is horrible. But he's horrible because he correctly detected what was the fake in the predominant American welfare state model.…
…said a vote for Macron today is a vote for Le Pen four years from now. Well, of course, I mean, you know, you backed Donald Trump in the US election. No, I did it in a very cynical way, I hope. But it was still a cynical backing. I thought for a…
…Marine Le Pen. No, no, no, no. Because, and I think I was deeply right, some of my idiotic United States friends claimed Trump is pure fascism. It's not. He's an opportunist and so on. But the wall was just to keep Muslims out, was just opportunism,…
…not saying even, no, what I hoped, and obviously I was too much of an optimist, it's precisely that people will see in Trump, and I put this explicitly, what horror he is, and that this will revitalize the left. The greatest disappointment in the first…
…explicitly, what horror he is, and that this will revitalize the left. The greatest disappointment in the first hundred days of Trump, others also said this, like Cornel West, is the Democratic Party. Now Democratic Party is spending most of its energy not…
…others also said this, like Cornel West, is the Democratic Party. Now Democratic Party is spending most of its energy not fighting Trump, but getting rid of Bernie Sanders supporters of its own. You know, okay, let me give you another prediction. You know…
…agree, when we were young, we were playing those games of sanity, you do this, whatever, to those in power. But now with Trump and so on, those which were in power and right-wing populists, they are quite obscene enough. Maybe we, the left, should also…
…say... It's this deep link between protecting Israel there, supporting Israel against the Palestinians, and remaining anti-Semitic here. And I claim Trump was also doing this in a more refined way, but so that, you know, would you agree, Cornel, when friends…
…and you noted that Beckett's favorite word was perhaps. So this brings me to my question. So even though Joe Biden defeated Trump, and we should all be thankful for that, as you've said, Brother West, that it's imperative we defeat the neofascist, the…
…all be thankful for that, as you've said, Brother West, that it's imperative we defeat the neofascist, the catastrophe that is Trump, in order that we can then defeat the neoliberal disaster that is Joe Biden. Even though Biden ultimately, he defeated…
…that is Trump, in order that we can then defeat the neoliberal disaster that is Joe Biden. Even though Biden ultimately, he defeated Trump, it was still obviously a blow to the left, and I would say to the country, that Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic…
…its substantial Power? It is not possible to return to it. All such returns are today a postmodern fake. Does Donald Trump stand for traditional values? No. His conservativism is a postmodern performance, a gigantic ego trip. In this sense... of playing…
…a gigantic ego trip. In this sense... of playing with traditional values, of mixing references to them with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate postmodern president. If we compare Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a postmodern politician at its purest,…
…traditional values, of mixing references to them with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate postmodern president. If we compare Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a postmodern politician at its purest, while Sanders is rather an old-fashioned moralist.…
…references to them with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate postmodern president. If we compare Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a postmodern politician at its purest, while Sanders is rather an old-fashioned moralist. Conservative thinkers claim that…
…now let me tell you a different, give you a different, more problematic example. In exactly the same way, liberal critics of Trump and alt-right never seriously asked how our liberal society could give birth to Trump. In this sense, the image of Donald…
…real civil war. But what worries me even more is that With the Ukraine war fatigue, a dark prospect opens up. What if Trump wins next elections and enforces a pact with Russia, abandoning Ukrainians in the same way he did it with Kurds? Kurdistan. During…
…problem, connected with this one, also concerns the fate of unwritten rules in our so-called developed Western countries. Remember Donald Trump. He more or less stuck to explicit legal regulations. But he tended to ignore the unwritten silent facts which…
…determine how we should practice this law. That was one thing, you know, that was for me so interesting and horrible about Trump. It's not so much that he violated explicit rules, but with every rule comes certain manners, silent rules, how you do this,…
…rules, how you do this, how you do that. He violated all that. Another thing, everybody knows this, not only with Trump, but with so-called alternative right, new conservatives, is that politics. said, it's that when I was young, leftists liked to speak…
…more and more explicitly obscene. I don't want to lose your time here. Very briefly, examples. One is, at one public meeting, Trump imitated, because he was listening to her tape, an FBI agent who was, he taped this, making love with her partner and…
…They believe it's been captured by the elites. They believe the elites will do anything to hold onto it. And now along comes Trump, somebody who they believe is contemptuous, which he is, of the system because he's a sociopath. And he says to them, look,…
…is, of the system because he's a sociopath. And he says to them, look, this party stole. And why would they believe Trump? Two reasons. The party's been screwing them over for 40 years. The party's candidates openly tell them that there's nothing we can…
…because they're not organizing, because they'll be easily manipulated, because they feel that the election is stolen. election is stolen. Trump didn't invent this, Hillary Clinton did. For four years, she said, she won the election, but the Russians stole it.…
…did. For four years, she said, she won the election, but the Russians stole it. Four years. And it's supposed to be Trump who is the stolen election dude? Both parties are doing this. Both parties are slowly encroaching on the democratic space. And as…
…in Europe, those who for the first week or two of the war were... almost pro-Russian, you know what your greatest president Trump said, Putin is a genius, intelligent move, blah, blah, all that, who get a great sympathy for it, then all of a…
…phenomenon which is already contaminated, mediated by what it opposes. For example, it's not the ultimate proof here, Donald Trump himself. a ruthless hedonist posing as a partisan of conservative values. If there ever was a postmodern historicist president,…
…a ruthless hedonist posing as a partisan of conservative values. If there ever was a postmodern historicist president, politician, it's Trump. Along these lines, in a column that I want to quote briefly from The Guardian newspaper, Suzanne Moore praised…
…North American, structured? We would, if we were to ask this question, we would get a totally different answer from Trump or from liberal center-left. Trump would have presented himself as the voice of the hard-working people against the corrupted,…
…would, if we were to ask this question, we would get a totally different answer from Trump or from liberal center-left. Trump would have presented himself as the voice of the hard-working people against the corrupted, non-patriotic enemies of the people, and…
…in the last year. A, My, not celebration, I know he's a disgusting nobody, but when I say maybe in the long term, Trump with his, Donald Trump with his horrors can lead to something positive. And my idea that there are also progressive potentials in the…
…A, My, not celebration, I know he's a disgusting nobody, but when I say maybe in the long term, Trump with his, Donald Trump with his horrors can lead to something positive. And my idea that there are also progressive potentials in the pandemic. I stick…
…positive. And my idea that there are also progressive potentials in the pandemic. I stick to this more than ever. First, Trump, don't forget that the democratic socialist democratic left that is now raising not only in United States in Europe now the…
…West Germany. The idea of eco-socialism is gone and so on and so on. I think that all this nonetheless emerged as a reaction to Trump. I think that today we are entering a new era where we will have on the one side this Trumpian populism and on the…
…even these obscene prohibitions can be publicly On the other hand, I want to emphasize this. I'm not saying that a person like Trump is without prohibitions. No, he is cheating. Precisely when he goes openly into obscenity and so on and so on, he knows…
…Hegel's point about monarch is that he is just a pure performative gesture. He is what Mike Pence decided to be, although Trump didn't want him to be. His role was just to register, and Trump did something interesting from the Hegelian standpoint. It's…
…He is what Mike Pence decided to be, although Trump didn't want him to be. His role was just to register, and Trump did something interesting from the Hegelian standpoint. It's like asking a king, like the Queen of England, Labour Party wants election,…
…we were lucky, that's how he put it, that we had on the top a figure who is ridiculous with cognitive dissonances like Trump. What if next time it will be... much more serious but these cognitive dissonances are the base of trump's success i know i…
…stupidity of the totalitarian so-called leader is crucial to their success? It's not like you can have a smart version of Trump who would be more successful. Absolutely. Maybe Trump was a little bit stupid at another level. You know what bright…
…crucial to their success? It's not like you can have a smart version of Trump who would be more successful. Absolutely. Maybe Trump was a little bit stupid at another level. You know what bright totalitarians know how to do? That secretly, at least…
…is happening? So I'm really glad about this. I think this shows that although everybody wants now to fight about me to criticize Trump and so on, that's not the real thing. to put it in shamelessly idealist way, the spirit is happening here. We don't…
…imagined half a year ago for Boris Johnson to, you know, to temporarily nationalize the British railways. Who would have thought for Trump himself to evoke that Cold War Act so that he can now directly control private companies, order them what to produce,…
…millions of others have to be active to risk their lives. And now I would like to draw your attention to where I think Trump is cheating. You know, when Trump is saying we cannot be all the time in a lockdown. At some point, things have to start…
…be active to risk their lives. And now I would like to draw your attention to where I think Trump is cheating. You know, when Trump is saying we cannot be all the time in a lockdown. At some point, things have to start moving and so on and so on.…
…the time in a lockdown. At some point, things have to start moving and so on and so on. And when Trump even uses a little bit this anti-elite language, claiming, yes, newer intellectuals, professors, journalists can isolate themselves, but what about…
…newer intellectuals, professors, journalists can isolate themselves, but what about ordinary people and so on and so on? In some sense... Trump is right here. But the problem is that those ordinary people are now in such a danger, unprotected, because of…
…battlefields, with a whole series of strategies to obfuscate the true dimension of the threat. First, simple ignorance, Donald Trump. It's a marginal phenomenon, life goes on, don't worry. Second... Science and technology can save us. Don't worry, scientists…
…not critical of you. It's a very simple one. My answer to this is that's why politically correct leftists are doing all possible to get Trump re-elected, if you ask me. A little bit more years on this and we will be where we are. But let me add as a…
…achieved even more. I doubt it. We don't know the counterfactual. Speaking of counterfactual, I have a question for you about Donald Trump. So you initially said, well, if Trump wins, it could be good because it will revitalize the left. There was then…
…know the counterfactual. Speaking of counterfactual, I have a question for you about Donald Trump. So you initially said, well, if Trump wins, it could be good because it will revitalize the left. There was then another article where people asked you, do…
…hard left is identity politics. And that's exactly the thing you hate. So why has it been good that we have three years of Trump, maybe eight years of Trump? We don't have time to go into it, but let me be specific. The Democrats who go for identity…
…its substantial power, it is not possible to return to it. All such returns are today a postmodern fake. Does Donald Trump stand for traditional values? No. His conservativism is a postmodern performance, a gigantic ego trip. In this sense... of playing…
…a gigantic ego trip. In this sense... of playing with traditional values, of mixing references to them with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate postmodern president. If we compare Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a postmodern politician at its purest,…
…traditional values, of mixing references to them with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate postmodern president. If we compare Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a postmodern politician at its purest, while Sanders is rather an old-fashioned moralist.…
…references to them with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate postmodern president. If we compare Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a postmodern politician at its purest, while Sanders is rather an old-fashioned moralist. Conservative thinkers claim that…
…now let me tell you a different, give you a different, more problematic example. In exactly the same way, liberal critics of Trump and alt-right never seriously asked how our liberal society could give birth to Trump. In this sense, the image of Donald…
…spending in the sense that it was not immediately productive. It was just you spend it for arms. Didn't Reagan do the same? Trump is doing today the same. So we have expert knowledge that we should distrust, at least a certain type of. But now comes…
…if you just do a kind of a spectral analysis of different ideologies. associated with ecology. First one is the Donald Trump ideology. You ignore the problem. Oh, it's a pseudo-problem invented by some crazy leftists who want to destroy American way of…
…friend Robert already emphasized, we should ask here deeper questions. One way to confront this problem is to Play the wall game, Donald Trump game. It's mess out there. We are not part of it. So if we feel threatened, let's build walls. This, of course,…
…irony that they are now, although they participated in the process which triggered refugees, they are now the main opponents of Trump. bringing in refugees and so on and so on. I think the main danger with Flüchtlinge is, again, humanitarianism. No, no,…
…people. That's why... What gives me hope for Europe is that, my God, all the bad guys today hate Europe. There is no Putin, Trump. Trump is now sending, okay, not literally. He's in bad relations with him. But you know what Steve Bannon did now? I was…
…and so on and so on, whatever. So my question is, what bothers them so much in Europe? Because let's look around. Trump ideology is absolutely anti-European. He now, he didn't change it. Okay, but Steve Bannon came to Europe now and it's again making…
…crowd, from the point of view of the new technology, that's Facebook, that's Twitter, and so on and so on. So when President Trump tweets, it has more to do with occlocracy in the sense of Polybius, than with monarchy or tyranny. If you think of Hitler,…
…the term public intellectual, but in the lowest sense they are. It's emerging and I'm almost afraid more of them than of Trump and so on. People like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. I'm horrified when some idiot like Zuckerberg appears in our…
…Again, my fascism, but especially my homophobia and so on came out there. And finally, I've shown my cards openly by supporting Donald Trump. Now... Things are clear. In this book, I simply try to, but I didn't want to do this, retroactively I noticed, I…
…hands. Although I'm accused, as you know. Slavoj is right, after all. Don't you know that one of the mean guys around Trump, was it Richard Bannon of who, did say that I'm his favorite Marxist, but that's another... His favorite Marxist, so he's got…
…truth in it, so-called ordinary working people, the only way for them to vent out, to express their frustration, was offered by Trump and that kind of people. And Bernie Sanders brought some fresh air here. It was a unique achievement. He succeeded in…
…some fresh air here. It was a unique achievement. He succeeded in mobilizing those people who would have otherwise voted for Trump. And the great tragedy of Democratic Party, not only, even now after elections, was, my God, instead of planning how to…
…And the great tragedy of Democratic Party, not only, even now after elections, was, my God, instead of planning how to beat Trump, you know what they are doing now? They are renormalizing Trump. Nancy Pelosi said recently, Trump is like Reagan. Bush, don't…
…of meaningful democracy, civil freedoms, and so on and so on. Isn't it clear that even in the United States now, in Trump, not to mention Russia, India, China, and so on, a new political form of capitalism is emerging, a much more authoritarian…
…Without this, we are lost. We are approaching to a new authoritarian society. That's why I disagree with those who claim, oh, with Trump, we are in fascism. It's not as simple as that. Donald Trump as president is for me the paradox of, let's call it,…
…society. That's why I disagree with those who claim, oh, with Trump, we are in fascism. It's not as simple as that. Donald Trump as president is for me the paradox of, let's call it, liberal fascism. In the sense that at individual level you can buy…
…What to do? And so on and so on. For me, what we are witnessing today in the United States with the election of Trump and so on, is to put it again in these ironic terms, the end of left Fukuyamaism. Even the majority of American liberal left,…
…education, and so on, but that's it. I think that we got... The reply now, no, it's not enough. That doesn't work. You know, Trump is a symptom of the failure of this mainstream liberal left. And if we just fight Trump, we are doing what in medicine…
…whole series of strategies to obfuscate the true dimension of the ecological threat. We still find it with persons like Donald Trump. Simple ignorance. It's a marginal phenomenon not worthy of our preoccupation. Life of capital goes on. Nature will take care…
…the machine not vote on my behalf? Again, my friends in the United States already did the same experiment precisely with Trump voters and some others. They followed them, registered their opinions, their habits, and so on. And then they not only predicted…
…enter So just to finish, where are we today? We had the fake awakening in the United States. It's very interesting how Trump uses this term of awakening against political alienation, people have spoken, people awakened and so on and so on. And Marine Le…
…already use this term and claim 2016 was, I quote Marine Le Pen, 2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up with Trump and Brexit. I am certain, says Marine Le Pen, 2017 will be the year when the people of continental Europe wake up. End…
…likely end of the era of humanisation. One should note that Chomsky, who criticised me ferociously for my idea that a Trump victory may lead to a renewed Left, enumerates here phenomena global warming, deforestation, wars and devastations and so on which…
…cheap antisemite, one of the intellectual fathers of Freud. Trumpism, Trumpism. Yeah, but one thing, we had here serious debates about Trump. Admit one thing, that Trump is almost Lacanian. People usually wear, I'm sorry, I repeat a joke, but for the lady,…
…intellectual fathers of Freud. Trumpism, Trumpism. Yeah, but one thing, we had here serious debates about Trump. Admit one thing, that Trump is almost Lacanian. People usually wear, I'm sorry, I repeat a joke, but for the lady, she deserves it. Trump,…
…Admit one thing, that Trump is almost Lacanian. People usually wear, I'm sorry, I repeat a joke, but for the lady, she deserves it. Trump, people usually have a wig, but they try to look, make to look as real hair. But Trump has real hair which looks…
…but for the lady, she deserves it. Trump, people usually have a wig, but they try to look, make to look as real hair. But Trump has real hair which looks like a wig. Admit it. Then, then, Okay, she is disgusting. She cannot be more. I admit it. And…
…is to the moment of utterance at which you speak. Right? So the subject is an effective discourse. That would be the... Also, Trump, he's the kind of subject, he's the subject of the eye, this kind of transcendental ego that seems to hover above... I…
…it's not just physical love, it's much more, your bells should ring, run away as fast as you can. So did you use the Trump method? Sorry? Did you use the Trump method? No, no, no. Did you use the Trump method? I mean, that's quite a brutal...…
…much more, your bells should ring, run away as fast as you can. So did you use the Trump method? Sorry? Did you use the Trump method? No, no, no. Did you use the Trump method? I mean, that's quite a brutal... Confession, in a sense. Did you go to…
…as you can. So did you use the Trump method? Sorry? Did you use the Trump method? No, no, no. Did you use the Trump method? I mean, that's quite a brutal... Confession, in a sense. Did you go to Trump? Trump is a great democratic politician or only…
…method? No, no, no. Did you use the Trump method? I mean, that's quite a brutal... Confession, in a sense. Did you go to Trump? Trump is a great democratic politician or only hope and so on. Wait a minute. I'm not kidding. Remember what Trump did. Are…
…No, no, no. Did you use the Trump method? I mean, that's quite a brutal... Confession, in a sense. Did you go to Trump? Trump is a great democratic politician or only hope and so on. Wait a minute. I'm not kidding. Remember what Trump did. Are you…
…the seat of power, as it happened, as you know, on the 6th of January 2021 in Washington, when the crowd of Trump supporters broke into the Capitol in an attempt to deny the result of democratic elections. They proclaimed elections were not... legitimate,…
…even anti-Semitic Western groups. Conservatives, for example. If there was somebody who was not really philosophic, it was Donald Trump. He was supported by a series of extreme right, openly anti-Semitic organizations, but he supported Israel. Now you will…
…kind of fundamental moral difference or difference of character. Namely, you know, all brutal dictators or even not full dictators like Donald Trump, they claim, I have the courage, the guts to do it openly, to violate parts of the law. But what may…
…when they are in power, these leaders continue to act as if they are in opposition, rebelling against the real power. You know, Trump always claimed the deep state is against me. An example. Are you aware what does it mean? Namely what Trump now recently…
…power. You know, Trump always claimed the deep state is against me. An example. Are you aware what does it mean? Namely what Trump now recently on the 3rd of December, what he said, he called for the termination of the America overturn the 2020 election…
…the termination of the America overturn the 2020 election result and reinstate him to power. Here is a literal quote from Donald Trump. Do you throw the presidential election results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new…
…type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. So Trump is consciously undermining the very fundamentals of the existing Constitution. constitution. He openly says we have to eat the…
…Plus, and this reflexive term is crucial, I enjoy this shame itself. In some of his acts, but not all of them, Trump, Donald Trump, acts without shame. The liberal leftists feel shame for him. And this shame attributed to others is... in itself a…
…and this reflexive term is crucial, I enjoy this shame itself. In some of his acts, but not all of them, Trump, Donald Trump, acts without shame. The liberal leftists feel shame for him. And this shame attributed to others is... in itself a source of…
…or gay. In his eyes, Those whom he dismisses as non-patriotic should be ashamed of themselves. But in contrast to the liberal left, Trump would not feel himself ashamed on behalf of what the left is doing. And what about today's woke left? I think Fowler…
…of neo-feudalism, let's call it, will take over. So, you know, what, again, what I would be, really, my nightmare is, and Trump is already sending signals and so on, even Bolsonaro is more friendly towards Putin and so on. This pact between European…
…goal is to break up European Union. So what I'm saying is that what really makes me afraid is that maybe if not Trump, but some kind of Trumpian Republicans take over, I can easily, easily, yes, Putin's right to infiltrate the NRA. Yes, I am easily...…
…this. Because the West is here very brutal. They said, ah, you want our help? Fuck it. Then... Do you think that Trump would have not allowed this to happen, this whole conflagration with Russia-Ukraine? I think he would just have tried to mediate it,…
…Russia-Ukraine? I think he would just have tried to mediate it, but definitely in Putin's favor. Remember the first reaction of Trump to Russian invasion. It's ingenious. It's incredible. Then he withdrew. But you know who especially was a shock for me? I'm…
…army. It's a wonderful paradox. Orthodox church with their frescoes of red army fighting and so on. So I definitely think that Trump maybe would have tried to make a compromise, but Trump would not. go in this direction of confrontation. And you know what…
…frescoes of red army fighting and so on. So I definitely think that Trump maybe would have tried to make a compromise, but Trump would not. go in this direction of confrontation. And you know what I hate when people say, aren't you horrified by these…
…says? The problem today is that politicians often violate the unwritten rules. You know, that's the horror in the United States. Donald Trump was doing this. He usually didn't break the law. But it's part of a communal consensus that you do things in a…
…in order to protect their liberty, their social order. Remember, On January 6, 2021, when a crowd of populist partisans of Donald Trump invaded the capital, sorry, the capital, they did a revolution. So we are in a mess. What is this mess about? The…
…European way of life. And they're even getting ready here for a pact with the United States. Remember that Putin and Trump, that's why they were doing so well, have the same hatred towards united Europe. I mean, Trump's ideologist, Steve Bannon, and…
…determined by this bipolarity, you know, Republicans, Democrats. But that's why it works. But what's happening today when we get Trump and the liberal establishment? I don't think there is any reconciliation possible here. Somebody will have to win. You are…
…easy way you have something you don't like oh then it must be fascism you know we neglect nonetheless I'm not saying that Trump was much better, but his logic was different. First, I don't think, in spite of all rumors, that Trump really wanted to make…
…not saying that Trump was much better, but his logic was different. First, I don't think, in spite of all rumors, that Trump really wanted to make a coup d'etat. A typical populist, he at the same time dismisses representative democracy, party politics as…
…by elites, but he's very careful not to step out of its frame into a direct dictatorship. And that's what maybe makes Trump even more dangerous. Trump doesn't want to step out of liberalism. And once when I spoke about Julian Assange and somebody asked…
…very careful not to step out of its frame into a direct dictatorship. And that's what maybe makes Trump even more dangerous. Trump doesn't want to step out of liberalism. And once when I spoke about Julian Assange and somebody asked me, Can you condense…
…Bernie Sanders supporters of its own. You know, okay, let me give you another prediction. You know what will be the result of Trump? You know that his America First policy is really a very modest policy. It's we no longer can be the global power, let's…
…care of our interests. No wonder this is a beautiful perversity that some very suspicious anti-colonizers like Robert Mugabe, He supported Trump because he said, yes, America first for them, Zimbabwe first for us, and so on. It's very important what the…
…of globalization, a new world order, open market, and so on and so on. That will be the true catastrophe of Trump. But having cynically supported him... Sorry? Having cynically supported him... Because I'm... No, having done that, how do you think he's…
…go too fast. We still have time. We still have time. I think that there still is a hope that not only Trump is doing his own stupidities, but with Democratic Party, it's more and more perceptible that it doesn't really offer an alternative. Because,…
…biogenetics, with intellectual property, with ecology. Capitalism, the way we know it now, cannot work. I do wonder, though, when you backed Trump and you thought that he'd sort of end up being... But I explicitly made it only because I hoped he would be…
…partial identity political progressive causes just to get rid of the real one of the economical political change. And that's how Trump gets elected. OK, well, let's talk about the British election. We've got a lot of questions coming in on Jeremy Corbyn's…
…act together and then pick up the pieces. Yeah, the left, this should be the party of order. Is that possible? It is. Look, whatever Trump is, I hope we agree, he definitely is not a man of order. He is a man of chaos. So if Jeremy Corbyn were a…
…you know, the way the system functions is that public decency goes together with privately telling dirty jokes. And the problem with Trump is that he is destroying even this limit. So that's why, wouldn't you agree with this? Sorry, very briefly. When I…
…knew that Germany is the backbone of Europe. So they- But this is the kind of preponderance of fake news that your friend Donald Trump has helped to put the bellows under. but that's why I'm horrified about it, my God. Fake news, no, they were all the…
…old tired, milquetoast neoliberalism, the failures of which, as you have both spoken to before, are in large part what brought us Trump to begin with. And yet, to invoke Beckett, one could perhaps argue that the left did fail better this time around than…
…so forth. The no is this, though, brother, that one of the reasons why we have not been able to come to terms with Trump is because we haven't been honest in terms of what actually produced him. And we haven't been honest in terms of what actually…
…still vote for him. Almost 35% of Latinos still vote for him. Almost 32% of Asians, 31% of Jews, 28% of queers vote for Trump so that You can see the neofascist sensibility now has soaked in. So even with Trump off the stage in terms of the White…
…31% of Jews, 28% of queers vote for Trump so that You can see the neofascist sensibility now has soaked in. So even with Trump off the stage in terms of the White House, we've got to deal with a whole culture that is generating these kinds of subjects…
…close to him, knew this clearly. How? Because of these links of Democratic Party establishment, Wall Street, and so on. Unfortunately, Trump did attract a strong percentage even of the working class folks. And not only white, even some Latinos just above in…
…that the first problem I see here is that, as you said, brother, totally correctly, We shouldn't just focus on the demonization of Trump as if we lived in a normal welfare state order and then, I don't know from where, from the moon, this monster came…
…thinking, and see how was something, what was wrong with our pre-Trump, in quotation marks, normal democracy, so that something like Trump could explode. That's absolutely crucial. Another thing, I don't know which advice here to give, but isn't that it's in…
…in the sense of now you have to pay the price. You have to pay the price, no? And again, I agree with you. Trump was horror, but things happen, imagine. Socialism is rehabilitated. That's why then Trump had to go to the step of madness. You remember,…
…pay the price, no? And again, I agree with you. Trump was horror, but things happen, imagine. Socialism is rehabilitated. That's why then Trump had to go to the step of madness. You remember, he claimed Biden is a socialist. Then he was asked, what about…
…chance for us. And what I, I mean this in a cruel, ironic way, not seriously, of course, but in some sense, Trump did open up in American political edifice some interesting political cracks, you know. That's why Bernie Sanders often emphasized that we…
…we, the Democrats, this obsession with center, you know, we should not lose centrist voice. No, they didn't take the lesson from Trump. Trump moved to the extremes and he won. We, as Bernie said, our target should be those impoverished that you mentioned,…
…Democrats, this obsession with center, you know, we should not lose centrist voice. No, they didn't take the lesson from Trump. Trump moved to the extremes and he won. We, as Bernie said, our target should be those impoverished that you mentioned, Corlele,…
…said, our target should be those impoverished that you mentioned, Corlele, white and black people who were seduced into voting for Trump. These are our votes, not this. upper middle classes who we shoot. That's right. by keeping calm, don't worry, you will…
…That's right. by keeping calm, don't worry, you will not tax your wealth, and so on and so on. It's crucial to make this risk. Trump made it for the right side. We should make it for the left side. And you've got 44% of citizens in the U.S. empire…
…forget about global warming and so on and so on. Now we have to fight this. And they already announced it. Not only Trump, also Europe, we will consume more black coal and so on, everything. But I'm worried like hell here. You know that in Northern…
…that's not the state withdrawing and shrinking at all but maybe this is one of the good side effects of this horrible phenomenon of Trump, you know that it will maybe bring the American public up to a point of sense, because I laughed a week or two…
…the American public up to a point of sense, because I laughed a week or two ago, I saw a title on CNN or where, will Trump succeed in making the coup d'etat, no? Oh yeah. Usually, till now, this would have been a title for a report from one of the…
…is that And Cornell, you were mentioning this earlier about the number of Black men, of Latinos, of LGBTQ people who voted for Trump because going back to how it was under Obama, as though that didn't give us Trump. that's not gonna help things. That's…
…of LGBTQ people who voted for Trump because going back to how it was under Obama, as though that didn't give us Trump. that's not gonna help things. That's exactly right. Slavoj, you say at one point, this I'm thinking back of the perhaps, perhaps…
…imaginable moment. Absolutely. Dying and all the reaction to COVID are how to fight, which new future will be offered to us. Trump offered his rather barbarian future, hundreds of thousands can die just that life goes on. Bill Gates and so on are offering…
…surprised because, again, Obama's neoliberal authority and his phone call that brought all of them together and said, anybody but Trump. Anybody but Bernie. Anybody but Bernie. What he was saying was, anybody who calls into question the Wall Street greed…
…That's the good news. But Brother Cornell, can I just say that this is why your wonderful mistake instead of anybody but Trump. It's true because the way centrist Democrats focused on anybody but Trump at any cost, we have to prevent Trump from being…
…this is why your wonderful mistake instead of anybody but Trump. It's true because the way centrist Democrats focused on anybody but Trump at any cost, we have to prevent Trump from being re-elected. The true strategy was the implied logic, which is the…
…of anybody but Trump. It's true because the way centrist Democrats focused on anybody but Trump at any cost, we have to prevent Trump from being re-elected. The true strategy was the implied logic, which is the main goal is to get rid of Trump, so…
…prevent Trump from being re-elected. The true strategy was the implied logic, which is the main goal is to get rid of Trump, so forget about democratic socialism we have together. Everybody but Trump was the mask for the true content which was anybody but…
…logic, which is the main goal is to get rid of Trump, so forget about democratic socialism we have together. Everybody but Trump was the mask for the true content which was anybody but Bernie. That's true. Oh, that's a powerful point. That's a powerful…
…In exactly the same way, liberal critics of Trump and alt-right never seriously asked how our liberal society could give birth to Trump. In this sense, the image of Donald Trump is also a fetish, the last thing a liberal sees before confronting actual…
…and alt-right never seriously asked how our liberal society could give birth to Trump. In this sense, the image of Donald Trump is also a fetish, the last thing a liberal sees before confronting actual social tensions. Hegel's motto, evil resides in the…
…tensions. Hegel's motto, evil resides in the gaze which sees evil everywhere, fully applies here. The very liberal gaze which demonizes Trump is also evil, because it ignores how its own failures opened up the space for Trump's type of patriotic populism.…
…is speaking the language and even acting like the old radical left. And they are conscious of this link. Steve Bannon The big Trump supporter calls himself a Leninist. He said, my ideas are what the leftists were doing 20 years ago, and so on. So why…
…goes openly into obscenity and so on and so on, he knows very well what he shouldn't talk about and so on and so on. Trump is for me in this sense a pervert and I always remember what Freud said that nowhere is the unconscious more out of reach,…
…that who are not pro Ronald Reagan, that even Reagan had some of this. He knew to put the right people around him Trump wasn't very strong here because look at Mike Pence, Pompeo, especially Pompeo and so on, you know. They just said, they just, you…
…some committee for fighting epidemics. He curtailed health care and so on and so on. And that's the disgusting strategy of Trump. On the one hand, he... Put ordinary people into very precarious situation. And now that's the horror. He Trump is well,…
…the disgusting strategy of Trump. On the one hand, he... Put ordinary people into very precarious situation. And now that's the horror. He Trump is well, and now he Trump poses as the failure, sorry, as the savior of the ordinary people. Look, I want you…
…On the one hand, he... Put ordinary people into very precarious situation. And now that's the horror. He Trump is well, and now he Trump poses as the failure, sorry, as the savior of the ordinary people. Look, I want you to go back to work and so on…
…not to think, but I have to think again. What are the options if we do not do this? Again, those... people from Trump to Boris Johnson, even some well-meaning people whom I don't consider so bad, like Macron or the Italian prime minister, they still…
…emerge. I totally agree with you. One has to look very closely. sorry, these bailouts whom they are really helping. And I know how Trump is kidding here, how he's really protecting some companies and so on and so on. But I think that what we need is…
…than just Europe. It goes... And that's the most desperate thing. You see how right we were with Julian about... Don't underestimate Trump. Did you notice in the last week or two practically a total absence of Joe Biden? Yeah, yes. It's absolutely clear…
…he was never even a serious choice. Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate because the Democratic establishment made the choice. Trump is better than Bernie Sanders. No, it is a tragedy because we have... It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy because with…
…And that's exactly the thing you hate. So why has it been good that we have three years of Trump, maybe eight years of Trump? We don't have time to go into it, but let me be specific. The Democrats who go for identity politics, already Hillary tried…
…into it, but let me be specific. The Democrats who go for identity politics, already Hillary tried this against Donald Trump. Yes, and that was much more radical. Against Bernie Sanders. That's why I admire Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who said something very…
…need a center. Democrats are obsessed. If you go too much to the left, we lose this center's vote and so on. Trump did exactly the opposite. I think the target of the Democratic Party should be those impoverished white people. Half-unemployed workers who…
…I think the target of the Democratic Party should be those impoverished white people. Half-unemployed workers who otherwise would have voted for Trump, not those middle of the road and so on and so on. Trump is a genius here, how he broke all the…
…white people. Half-unemployed workers who otherwise would have voted for Trump, not those middle of the road and so on and so on. Trump is a genius here, how he broke all the rules and so on. Because do you remember how often in his campaign when…
…on. Because do you remember how often in his campaign when he said something, I know, preposterous, horrible, liberal press said, oh... Trump just shot himself, he's over and so on. No, it's not over. Trump proved that sometimes the only way to majority…
…I know, preposterous, horrible, liberal press said, oh... Trump just shot himself, he's over and so on. No, it's not over. Trump proved that sometimes the only way to majority is through extremes. It's not always that center works. But I worry here…
…to majority is through extremes. It's not always that center works. But I worry here there's a parallel. Your views and pronouncements on Trump and on communism. So in the case of Trump, you think, well, I can say this. I have a vision that will work…
…that center works. But I worry here there's a parallel. Your views and pronouncements on Trump and on communism. So in the case of Trump, you think, well, I can say this. I have a vision that will work out a particular way. The democratic left will be…
…will work out some way. It will tell us we always need more when it comes to ecology. But that to me seems like the Trump prediction. We know from the work of Philip Tetlock, it's just very hard to predict the future. So why not stand up directly for…
…In exactly the same way, liberal critics of Trump and alt-right never seriously asked how our liberal society could give birth to Trump. In this sense, the image of Donald Trump is also a fetish, the last thing a liberal sees before confronting actual…
…and alt-right never seriously asked how our liberal society could give birth to Trump. In this sense, the image of Donald Trump is also a fetish, the last thing a liberal sees before confronting actual social tensions. Hegel's motto, evil resides in the…
…tensions. Hegel's motto, evil resides in the gaze which sees evil everywhere, fully applies here. The very liberal gaze which demonizes Trump is also evil, because it ignores how its own failures opened up the space for Trump's type of patriotic populism.…
…about something we all agree was a bad thing, op, you are a fascist, and so on. You know, it's not as simple as that. Even Trump, of whom I am deeply critical, no, I'm sorry to tell you, yes, he is a catastrophe in the long term and so on, but he…
…That's why... What gives me hope for Europe is that, my God, all the bad guys today hate Europe. There is no Putin, Trump. Trump is now sending, okay, not literally. He's in bad relations with him. But you know what Steve Bannon did now? I was there.…
…disorder under heaven, so the situation is excellent. Okay, it's not so excellent. Just remember, don't lose nerves, that... What figures like Trump and so on mean is that the hegemony of the existing order is breaking up. We live in confused times. We no…
…An example, I promise to you, Robert, don't kill me, to be the last. You know, leftists were so shocked when Trump proclaimed national emergency for a couple of thousand immigrants. Incidentally, you know what's my cynical reaction here? Does Trump at all…
…when Trump proclaimed national emergency for a couple of thousand immigrants. Incidentally, you know what's my cynical reaction here? Does Trump at all believe in the greatness of America? I mean... Is America really so weak that a couple of thousands…
…of thousands of immigrants can destroy it and so on? I think the time for progressive Americans is not to say Trump is aggressively patriotic, but Trump is not. Isn't it a much more effective strategy? Trump doesn't believe in American greatness. He's…
…can destroy it and so on? I think the time for progressive Americans is not to say Trump is aggressively patriotic, but Trump is not. Isn't it a much more effective strategy? Trump doesn't believe in American greatness. He's anti-patriotic and so on. And…
…Americans is not to say Trump is aggressively patriotic, but Trump is not. Isn't it a much more effective strategy? Trump doesn't believe in American greatness. He's anti-patriotic and so on. And some intelligent right-wingers were shocked by that measure of…
…doesn't believe in American greatness. He's anti-patriotic and so on. And some intelligent right-wingers were shocked by that measure of Trump. And they said precisely their fear was right. They said, Trump set a horrible precedent. What if the next…
…on. And some intelligent right-wingers were shocked by that measure of Trump. And they said precisely their fear was right. They said, Trump set a horrible precedent. What if the next president, maybe, maybe not, I don't know, will be a More than ever,…
…maybe, maybe not, I don't know, will be a More than ever, left-leaning Democrat. What if he proclaims green national emergency? Trump said, you know, this is how we should act. Don't lose nerves. Enemy did something horrible. Not just protest it. Ask…
…their wives and so on. You absolutely cannot understand resistance against political correctness without the class dimension, and that's what Donald Trump used in a masterful way. So as Winnetou said, I have spoken. So sorry for talking too much. I was…
…They did exactly this. Local rebellion and so on and so on. And they got support from Salvini and from... from Salvini and from Trump and so on and so on. I had long debates with this, and even my friend with whom I have differences, but basically I…
…now after elections, was, my God, instead of planning how to beat Trump, you know what they are doing now? They are renormalizing Trump. Nancy Pelosi said recently, Trump is like Reagan. Bush, don't worry, for eight years we have him, then we will be our…
…God, instead of planning how to beat Trump, you know what they are doing now? They are renormalizing Trump. Nancy Pelosi said recently, Trump is like Reagan. Bush, don't worry, for eight years we have him, then we will be our turn again. And they spend…
…they spend their energy crushing whatever remains of Bernie Sanders there. In this way, they are literally prolonging the career of Trump. Trump, I claim. And that was my very cynical reasoning in that quasi-support of Trump or whatever. I judged, maybe I…
…spend their energy crushing whatever remains of Bernie Sanders there. In this way, they are literally prolonging the career of Trump. Trump, I claim. And that was my very cynical reasoning in that quasi-support of Trump or whatever. I judged, maybe I was…
…they are literally prolonging the career of Trump. Trump, I claim. And that was my very cynical reasoning in that quasi-support of Trump or whatever. I judged, maybe I was wrong on all accounts, it was an empirical judgment. I, according to my judgment,…
…That doesn't work. You know, Trump is a symptom of the failure of this mainstream liberal left. And if we just fight Trump, we are doing what in medicine they call, I think, symptomatic healing. You have a serious illness. You just take some pills…
…What is infinitely important in Bernie Sanders' movement is that he mobilized people who otherwise would have voted and did vote for Trump. This popular discontent and so on and so on. If... Bernie Sanders will in the long term fail, fail in his effort…
…in the long term fail, fail in his effort to get on his side the bulk of Democratic Party, then we are condemned to Trump. That's my big problem here. But you wanted to ask me, please repeat the beginning of your question. It was very interesting. Just…
…through the disorder of politics. For me, the word deal best crystallizes this disorder insofar as it reduces... You mean deal when Trump says, I want to make a deal like running like a big manager. Exactly. The word deal best crystallizes this disorder…
…reduces politics to a zero-sum game of winners and losers. So what do you think the word deal is doing in the Trump lexicon? But it's, you know, Trump has so many paradoxes and inconsistencies because precisely what he's doing in his actual politics, the…
…of winners and losers. So what do you think the word deal is doing in the Trump lexicon? But it's, you know, Trump has so many paradoxes and inconsistencies because precisely what he's doing in his actual politics, the way he approaches the Mexican…
…the Mexican immigrants and so on, it's precisely not a deal. And also, for example, there are so many inconsistencies with Trump. For example, it's absolutely crucial, the inconsistency towards Jews of his politics. On the one hand, okay, although there are…
…if they spent that money for German industrial products and so on and so on. But what I want to say is this with Trump. You know what I'm afraid now? Don't fall into what I call John Stewart trap. Just this eternal left liberal making fun of Trump.…
…Trump. You know what I'm afraid now? Don't fall into what I call John Stewart trap. Just this eternal left liberal making fun of Trump. We will lose this game. I'm not saying he's personally not stupid, but I'm just saying that at least for a couple of…
…other of his projects, maybe for some time, It will work, to put it simply. But for me, one of the true dangers of Trump is the, let's call it, disintegration, regression of public morals, of how you are allowed to speak in public. And this is not…
…the, let's call it, disintegration, regression of public morals, of how you are allowed to speak in public. And this is not just Trump. This is a general regression. For example, can you even imagine 10, 15 years ago that we would be allowed to even…
…not tolerated. They are tolerated, they are tolerated again. Even public decency, the tragedy, if I may use this ridiculous word, of Trump is that even when he likes to celebrate good manners, nobility, he does it in a totally wrong way. Like, I don't…
…Like, I don't know why it impressed me so dramatically a month or two before elections. Maybe you remember, he was praising Melania Trump. to demonstrate what a refined lady she is, she said, I don't want to use that word, F, not the FF, another F,…
…flatulence sound. But you know what's the problem? Even to take talk about this public is a vulgarity. You know, that's the paradox of Trump. He didn't see that at that point he was vulgar because the point is not you don't do it. The point is we…
…not you don't do it. The point is we simply out of decency don't talk about this in public. Again, it's not just Trump. It's incredible how the same thing is happening all around. What was still now a matter of this, you know, private conspiracy…
…which are going on for decades. The most one can say is that Trump's blatant denial of the ecological threat like crazy against Trump. But we should never forget that Trump is a symptom of what was false in predominant, I like to call it ironically,…
…one can say is that Trump's blatant denial of the ecological threat like crazy against Trump. But we should never forget that Trump is a symptom of what was false in predominant, I like to call it ironically, left Fukuyamaism. Because this was the basic…
…more human, more healthcare, more this, more that. I claim that this liberal left And if we want really to get rid of Trump, it's not enough just to fight Trump. If you just fight Trump, you do what I think doctors call symptomatic healing. You know,…
…more that. I claim that this liberal left And if we want really to get rid of Trump, it's not enough just to fight Trump. If you just fight Trump, you do what I think doctors call symptomatic healing. You know, you have a serious disease, you can take…
…this liberal left And if we want really to get rid of Trump, it's not enough just to fight Trump. If you just fight Trump, you do what I think doctors call symptomatic healing. You know, you have a serious disease, you can take pills which just ease…
…a serious disease, you can take pills which just ease the pain. But the illness remains there. The only way to really fight Trump is, I claim, to ask what went wrong with our mainstream liberal democracy so that not only in the United States, but also…
…claim, to ask what went wrong with our mainstream liberal democracy so that not only in the United States, but also in Europe, Trump is phenomenal, like Trump are exploding. Because at one point Marine Le Pen hit the mark. 2017 will be the moment of…
…went wrong with our mainstream liberal democracy so that not only in the United States, but also in Europe, Trump is phenomenal, like Trump are exploding. Because at one point Marine Le Pen hit the mark. 2017 will be the moment of truth for Europe. I'm…
…the Russians meddle with American elections and so on. But independently of this, you should read these ideologies who are behind Trump. Their big enemy is simple European view. Their enemy is the new global order, the new secret world government, the same…
…of global emancipation, now is the time to fight for European legacies. European legacy is threatened not only by today's Russia, Trump and so on, but also by our own right-wingers. My God, it's people like Gerd Wilders, Marine Le Pen. We shouldn't…
…phenomenon for me, Bernie Sanders. He did something that was considered unthinkable. He modernized people who would otherwise vote for Trump. I mean, these ordinary working class populists and so on. I worry much, even much more fundamentally about another…
…subject, he's the subject of the eye, this kind of transcendental ego that seems to hover above... I don't accept the analogy with Trump. No, no, no. Precisely. Trump is a full material vulgar ego. Please, we have another question. No, but I'm so sad we…
…the eye, this kind of transcendental ego that seems to hover above... I don't accept the analogy with Trump. No, no, no. Precisely. Trump is a full material vulgar ego. Please, we have another question. No, but I'm so sad we cannot go into this because…
…Trump? Trump is a great democratic politician or only hope and so on. Wait a minute. I'm not kidding. Remember what Trump did. Are you aware? I'm not kidding. He single-handedly destroyed practically the Republican Party. It's falling apart. Not too bad an…
…bad an achievement. But seriously, you know what's the problem? And there is another topic we debated with you. You know why Trump is really vulgar? Not so much as when he is vulgar with this touching, but he's the most tragically vulgar precisely when…
…about. Like, he did the same with Hillary. You remember, Hillary disappeared in the middle of some debate for a minute, and Trump said, obviously she had to run to the restroom, toilet, and Trump said, oh, can you imagine where did she go? Disgusting.…
…disappeared in the middle of some debate for a minute, and Trump said, obviously she had to run to the restroom, toilet, and Trump said, oh, can you imagine where did she go? Disgusting. No, we all do this. It's not disgusting. Just don't talk about it.…
…It's not disgusting. Just don't talk about it. Disgusting is to say this publicly. So, in spite of All my political admiration for Trump, no, he is not like me. He is not my friend. I was interested that you described your relationship, the early stages…
…we just serve society, we don't have any interest, to religious fundamentalism, to... a new figure obscene masters clowns like Donald Trump. The obscene master is not a direct reaction to the failure of the traditional master. This figure is a reaction to…
…and so on so my First, if it is fascism, whatever, it's not the old type of fascism with this disciplinary military rule. Trump thrives in this media corruption, manipulations, and so on and so on. Second thing, as I always repeat, we should never forget…
…is a sign of hope let's see what will happen but i think still that uh that we should learn the lesson of Trump. Remember when Trump was doing his first electoral campaign, when he was attacking opponents, many moderate Republicans said to him, no, you…
…hope let's see what will happen but i think still that uh that we should learn the lesson of Trump. Remember when Trump was doing his first electoral campaign, when he was attacking opponents, many moderate Republicans said to him, no, you are too…
…This fear, which was already Bill Clinton's fear, you know, my God, are we losing this middle class, moderate, no, the paradox, Trump taught us this, is that the large unity which mobilizes people requires first a strong act of division, not we cover all,…
…a horrible term, public discipline as a condition of our actual freedom. I think that there is no contradiction in Trump being this ruthless, liberal, conspiracy theorist, you think whatever you want, in the authoritarian side of Trump, which was there,…
…no contradiction in Trump being this ruthless, liberal, conspiracy theorist, you think whatever you want, in the authoritarian side of Trump, which was there, of course. yeah that's interesting it suggests you know just as a follow-up to that i'm wondering…
…you have it also in the States, it's a kind of almost globalized indifference, you know, like now Slovenia, and as your beloved President Trump would have put it, we are a city hall of a country with 2 million people, but now we are again at over…
…be curious about your take on this. I think that there is an interesting tension in a lot of American progressive views about Trump and Trumpism, because on the one hand, There is a correct critique, I think we all agree with, that like Trump's response…