Trump’s Orange Culture War Fascism wins – The American Midnight is upon us

Trump's United States of Wounded Masculinity has beaten Kamala's Nation of Childless Cat Women.

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Martyn Bradbury
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2076

This song sums us up best right now:

Since 2016 I have argued that Identity Politics is a deeply flawed strategy for the Political Left.

I have argued that Identity Politics locked into place ‘feelings’ and ‘lived experiences’ that replaced logic, rational debate and reason because logic, rational debate and reason are heteronormative white cis male privileges that we all hate now.

MeToo, Black Lives Matter and the Trans debate – all issues we were prepared to burn every bridge for have come back to bite us all.

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I warned that if you spent all this time screaming white men were the problem, they would become the problem.

The greatest danger of Identity Politics for the Left is that the millisecond white poor men see themselves through the same identity lens of victimhood that the Woke do, we were collectively fucked.

The moment men stop seeing themselves as part of a class or as citizens, the millisecond they replace solidarity with victimhood – we were in collective danger.

The Woke believed their ‘feelings’ were more important than anything else, unfortunately angry and frightened right wing people have ‘feelings’ too and their ‘feelings’ are way more demented than ours.

That is what has happened in the American Election and what we have just witnessed is the most consequential election in modern political history – it is the beginning of America’s decline and the first true step towards a dystopian nightmare.

Trump’s United States of Wounded Masculinity has beaten Kamala’s Nation of Childless Cat Women.

I’m pretty sure this is how the Handmaids Tale starts – the American Midnight has begun.

I argued there would be 3 possible outcomes from the Election:

OUTCOME 1: Polls have under estimated Democratic support the way they did during midterms and Harris wins a landslide. MAGA Extremists riot.

OUTCOME 2: Trump swamps the electorate with voters who never would have voted in the past and wins a convincing victory. Progressive movement riots.

OUTCOME 3: The Election is too close to call and Trump exploits that delay by stealing the election. 

We have Outcome 2 and I think this is the most dangerous outcome.

The only way Trump could win was if he reached out to the 34% of Americans who don’t vote, that his hate, his malice, his spite manages to cut through all the noise to the disenfranchised male voter who has lost all hope in the system and are voting because Trumps anger triggers them to support him.

Trump did this, he reached into the void and dragged non-voters into voting and won an unprecedented victory.

It is a stark and terrifying win because Trump has gained a mandate for the horror he is promising to inflict.

Using social media to focus on the non-voter and to bring them into voting using malice that cuts through has cemented an uncompromising victory and it should terrify everyone with basic reading skills.

Trump is a fascist whose desire to politicise the bureaucracy with Project 2025 will lead to mass arrest detention camps for ‘illegals’ using a a militarised secret police.

His tariffs will cause conflict with China, the Palestinians are fucked, the climate is screwed and the Ukrainians about to be betrayed.

This monumental victory alongside wins in the Senate and the likelihood the Republicans will keep the House is a total landslide from which the Democrats can not recover.

Some will say, ‘that’s democracy’ but that isn’t true. We have unregulated social media feeding the lonely and angry and disenfranchised with deeply polarised brainwashing hate algorithms  that has re-elected a convicted felon who attempted a coup against the Government.

This isn’t democracy, that is a mutation of cruelty groomed by the Tech bros.

Trump understands political resentment as well as Hitler did and he has weaponised it using social media.

650 000 Americans are homeless, over 100 000 of them are children and 135million live with the threat of homelessness from one bad financial costing month. The level of preciousness so many live with has poisoned the wage slaves of the Land of the Free.

The dark dull orange fascism of Trump is now upon us and the American Midnight begins.

We have every reason to be genuinely frightened because this step towards dystopia is the turning point of Western Civilisation.

We are a far worse species for this outcome.

 

PS – Congrats to TDBs Tim Selwyn who called it for Trump, and Waatea’s Shane Te Pou who picked the working class shift to Trump before any other NZ Commentator. 

 

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94 COMMENTS

      • Occasional Aucklander Branko Marcetic:
        ‘Maybe most egregious, Harris seemingly refused to run on the broadly popular $15 minimum wage hike that had been a big part of Biden’s winning 2020 platform.
        ‘For weeks, she wouldn’t say how much she would raise the wage by, she never brought it up in the debate and other major televised appearances, and she only officially adopted the now outdated $15-an-hour figure three weeks before voting. In thirty-five public events between the day she officially took up the position, October 22, and November 4, Harris mentioned the policy exactly twice: both times in Nevada and without mentioning a dollar figure. It didn’t feature as a top message in her Facebook advertising, it wasn’t in her final ad blitz, and it certainly didn’t appear in any of the ads I personally saw while in the battleground state of North Carolina over the weekend.
        ‘This decision likely cost her. Voters in Trump-voting Missouri and Alaska have approved or are on the way to approving ballot measures raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and instituting paid sick leave (another popular measure Harris declined to run on).
        ‘Rather than the bread-and-butter matters that voters have consistently said are their biggest concern, Harris and the Democrats were determined to turn this into an election about abortion, democracy, and Trump’s character….
        ‘Given a second chance by the friendly Stephen Colbert to answer the question of how her presidency would be different from Biden’s, Harris fumbled for an answer before reminding the TV host that “I’m not Donald Trump.”
        ‘It may as well have been the campaign’s slogan.’
        https://jacobin.com/2024/11/election-harris-trump-democrats-strategy

        • More from occasional Aucklander Branko Marcetic:
          ‘A palpably disgusted Bernie Sanders put out a short statement excoriating the party for failing to speak to the economic concerns that were by far voters’ leading motivation heading into Election Day:
          “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”’
          https://jacobin.com/2024/11/bernie-sanders-harris-campaign-workers

  2. Fuck me what sort of a world have we created .If you are brown ,female ,lgbt ,put your head between your legs and kiss your arse good bye .Luxon and the river of filth will be emboldened by the orange pricks win and will step up the hate and money grab .

    • We haven’t created this world, the big money interests corrupting US politics, therefore world politics, have created this world….note how the concerns you raise don’t cost them one farkin penny.

      Economics, not feelings is what we should be fighting, but alas…we are totally, totally, totally farkin hoodwinked.

  3. Kamala, you’re FIRED!

    This is a great day for the United States because only Trump can protect the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage and Make America Great Again, including the implementation of Project 2025.

    Kamala has allowed illegal immigrants to enter the country with her open-border policy, which is destroying America. These illegal immigrants are committing crimes, murdering people, including children, and even eating their pets!

    When Trump becomes president again on January 20th, he will secure the border and lock up those immigrants in detention centres before deporting them back to the hellhole countries from which they came.

    • You have no credibility talking about a Judeo-Christian heritage when you finish with a desire to lock immigrants up before deporting them to what you call hellhole countries. Jesus said to love our enemies, come unto Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
      If you had any knowledge of history you would know that any church state combination is always a disaster because force is unable to change the heart, fear will have an influence on people’s behavior but the desire will still exist and be satisfied in a supply and demand society often in damaging ways.

      • The first example of a church/state, religious/secular combination is in the Book of Genesis Chapter 4. Cain was the secular authority (he went on to be a builder of cities) and Abel was the keeper of flocks, the spiritual authority. Abel was closer to God, but Cain was accepted up to the point where he chose to kill his brother. The rest of the tale is intriguing, but the main point is that the spiritual and the material, the religious and the secular, church and state should live in a state of brotherly harmony. The younger brother cannot dictate to the older, but ideally the older brother should hearken to the example of the younger, and, most importantly, act as his “brother’s keeper”. So biblically the state has a duty to protect religion. At a minimum it should not proscribe religion, it should not tax religion, and it should listen to the voice of God as expressed through religion. That is the Christian view of the proper relationship between church and state.

        • I do not for one moment believe that Donald Trump is a Christian. He is a man who thinks himself to be God Almighty. More in the style of a Roman emperor than a Christian. Christopher Luxon, also nominally Christian, is not such a blatantly amoral narcissist as Trump, but still has no compassion for God’s children, whether they be in Porirua or Palestine, and so cannot be regarded as an exemplar of Christianity.

        • Question for Geoff.
          As nobody had ever died before Abel, how was Cain to know hitting Abel on the head with a rock was wrong or would kill him?

          • Let me help. The story of Cain and Abel is not a low grade whodunit with God as the detective and sentencing judge. It is an allegory in which Cain stands for the spiritual side of our nature, the religious person, and the institutions of spiritual authority. Cain stands for our earthly side, the worldly person and the civil power. Therefore the story operates on three levels. It tells us how our spiritual and earthly sides need to exist together in harmony, the more worldly and more spiritually inclined members of society need to contribute to the overall good in their different ways, and religious and temporal institutions (church and state) need to keep their respective places. When these relationships break down peace and well being is lost, individuals become alienated and society fractures. Genesis 4 is a story for our times. Every element of the story has meaning which is easy enough to discern if one has the simple wisdom of the ancestors to whom the word of God came in allegory and parable.

          • Of course I know that Cain Abel weren’t real, and the whole set up fabricated.
            You bring up phrases like “God-given”, obviously you believe in that fairy-tale bullshit.

            I have no interest in having cherry-picked excerpts from a Bronze Age social-control manual that is rooted in deception quoted at me.

            • You don’t like certain phrases (I am not sure that I used “God-given”) and you don’t like to hear anything that comes out of the “Bronze Age”. It seems that you are not interested in a discussion based on objective analysis of the biblical text. Curiously, you seem more hostile towards a biblical interpretation which makes sense than towards one that is obviously nonsense. Your animosity towards religion prevents you from properly understanding it.

    • America is the false prophet of Revelations.

      The steps are in place to accelerate the march to Armageddon and then the Rapture with the glorious return of The Lord.

      Hallelujah, God be praised!

    • Christian?????
      Where are you coming from Zelda, you now have a pussy snatching, bankrupt, corrupt, pornstar fucker, pornstar paying off, fraudulent business person, golf cheating old prick, I might even add pedophile but he hasn’t actually been convicted of that.
      I even have doubts about his relationship with his daughter.
      And you say he will protect the Judeo Christians. What a fucking joke.
      Wait till Musk, Kennedy, Putin, Xio, Kim Jong Netanahu etc Start calling in their markers and you will see who Trump is protecting. IT WON’T BE ANY ONE AMERICAN THAT DOESN’T HAVE LOTS OF MONEY OR INFORMATION THAT TRUMP DOESN’T WANT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
      People such as yourself are but tools in his kit and you will be spat out as soon as you have become used. And for many in America that was yesterday after they voted.
      If you go on a cruise boat you will very quickly see how fucked Americans are and they have just demonstrated this big time.
      Good for us though because people here might see what will happen to us if Peters and Seymour continue to wank soft Willie Luxon as they currently are.
      Hopefully someone in National will grow a pair and takeover.
      Unfortunately they don’t have any options amongst the power hungry turds running their show at present.

  4. I was wrong, I thought Harris would win, but I wonder how much an influence the Joe Rogan endorsement swung the result?

    This COULD be a very good thing for the democrat party, only if they can see their ass from their elbows. The party members need to take back the party from the cabal of the Clintons, Obamas en tal and actually have a honest democratic process for nomination selection. (NB Labour are you watching?)

    Trump was a terrible candidate (but an extremely shrewd politician, you have to give him that) but here’s the recent results,

    2016 – Trump won, because he wasn’t Hilary
    2020 – Biden won, because he wasn’t Trump
    2024 – Now Trump wins, because he wasn’t Harris

    As for the calls of misogyny, I think that’s utter bs, if Trump was up against a semi competent woman, he’d a lost. Noting the democrats had Tulsi Gabbard on their books, but Hilary (again the cancer of the party) put a knife in her back.

    Suck it up Democrats, you screwed this up, again.

    • A brown woman against a white racist who thinks its ok to sexually assult women by grabbing pussy as you walk past .Then you have the hill billy red necks that just think women are for kitchen duties and sex and brown and black people are for hunting .Wait till he lets Musk loose on his working class voters and see if they still love him this time next year .Then he is going to let Kennedy loose on the health system so no prevention of children from common illness like measles and chicken pox ,look out for the next wave of pandemics in 3 years time .

      • Ah, speaking of Tulsi Gabbard, for all her faults….

        In 2020 I initially felt Harris was the strongest Dem contender, but Tulsi Gabbard blew Harris out of the water in a debate where she accused Harris of suppressing exculpatory evidence in a criminal case that reeked of miscarriage of justice. Harris never denied Tulsi’s charge but just left the accusation hang there unanswered. I could no longer support Harris. Personally, I would have preferred the Dems had the guts to go with the brightest candidate, which was clearly Peter Buttigieg. But no, they manipulated the selection (as had happened with Clinton) and selected Biden.
        In due course the knives came out for Gabbard. Never turn on the party establishment.

    • Did Rogan endorse Trump or did Kamala decline the opportunity to appear because her people decided she couldn’t make more sense during a three hour chat than Trump.

        • Never said that. But more Americans think he makes more sense than Kamala.

          Don’t blame Trump, blame the Democrats for not running a selection process, any form of selection process.

      • He endorsed him post the Elon podcast. Very late in the piece, but Rogan was a big Bernie fan, and just shows how far the Democrats have fallen.

        And yes, Kamala refusing to appear on Rogan was a bad (or good) move. She wanted to dictate terms just after Trump and JD didn’t and sat for 3-4 hours. Possibly good move, if you think she would have been found to be an empty vessel, trivial now I guess.

  5. Over in the rest of the world based on the record of his previous four year term it’s unlikely there will be any new wars. How many veterans of the forever wars saw Cheney endorse The Left and thought No War Trump would be good news for their sons and daughters.

    The Ukrainians will feel betrayed but they could have chosen neutrality in the first place rather than be manipulated and couped into crossing Russias Nato in Ukraine redline. Call Trump a fascist but it was the Democrats that funded the Azov Ukraine nazis.

    What would a regulated social media look like? Anti free speech hate laws? Embedded fbi cia and other ‘misinformation league’ operatives in the social media companies?

    The NZ economy needs to get closer to BRICS.

  7. Roll up, roll up…

    Witness the last gasp and grasp of rich old whitemen to secure power in a political system they set up to enrich themselves at everyone else’s expense.

    Pick the low hanging fruit that is strong women of colour and squeeze the juice from them.

    Feel the desperate angst of the marginalised who believe in a decaying democracy that doesn’t believe in them.

    Sit back, enjoy the ride, it’s gonna be quite the show!

  8. “I warned that if you spent all this time screaming white men were the problem, they would become the problem.”

    They’re hardly the fucking solution though are they ?

    • This comment highlights one of the most insidious problems society has with all this identity politics nonsense. I and many of my now middle aged white middle class friends have time, money and skills that 20 or 30 years ago would have been freely given back to our respective communities through groups like Rotary or the Lions and by sitting on council boards but none of us want to take the risk of being cancelled or shamed for committing wrong think.

      Perhaps an approach that is truly inclusive of all and that recognises that all have merit and value might be wiser? Dismissing a huge part of society purely because of their gender and skin colour wasn’t considered to be the right way historically so perhaps a different approach might work?

  9. “OUTCOME 2: Trump swamps the electorate with voters who never would have voted in the past and wins a convincing victory. Progressive movement riots.”
    We have yet to see the “Progressive movement” riot. Many are talking about immigrating to New Zealand, as if they have a God-given right to do that while abandoning their own country. The “Progressive movement” is more inclined to cut and run when events turn to their disadvantage. Where is Jacinda Ardern these days?
    The real leaders of the “Progressive movement” in the US (aka “global capitalism”) will be working quietly behind the scenes to gain or regain control over Trump’s administration but Trump’s ego (nothing to do with principles or political fidelity) will mean that he seeks to keep faith with those who voted for him. There are two ways to reconcile the interests of capital and labour within a great capitalist power. One is the way of the angels: a welfare state. The other is the the way of the devil: a ruthless predatory war against the outsider, usually characterized as fascism.

    • Mmmhmmm…look what happened when we got an influx of cracka ass saffas who abandoned their country when their white right to rule was overturned.

      Lots of middle managers hiring their own at the expense of Pasifikans who still struggle with equality of opportunity.

    • ” Trump’s ego (nothing to do with principles or political fidelity) will mean that he seeks to keep faith with those who voted for him.”

      lols. lols and double lols.
      Trump cares only for himself, he considers his own interests solely, he doesn’t keep faith with anyone or anything, unless it is to his short term advantage.

  10. Buy your stuff now. Eyewatering trade war tarrifs are going to spike prices globally as exporters offset their costs to consumers.

  11. “PS – Congrats to TDBs Tim Selwyn who called it for Trump, and Waatea’s Shane Te Pou who picked the working class shift to Trump before any other NZ Commentator.”
    Yes, TDB has writers like Tim Selwyn and Shane Te Pou who are well ahead of the New Zealand media pack. That reflects credit on Martyn as well for providing room for independent, intelligent and objective comment.
    The rest of the media and the political establishment have turned on a dime. They are already congratulating Trump. The masses of air time given to Harris and Biden supporters up till the day of November 6 are now gifted to Trump apologists.
    We look to TDB to maintain a consistent and principled perspective in the months to come.

      • You think Selwyn helped Trump from a small NZ blog? That’s insane. All Tim did was provide smart, based analysis – which is why you hated it given your own rubbish.

        • He indulged in plan B. – those providing cover for Trump to baselessly claim massive fraud, some providing the cover wittingly, some unwittingly.

          In fact, early in yesterday’s vote count Trump started executing exactly that tactic. Spewing in all cap tweets on tooth social claiming massive fraud had been detected already. It was of course, total bullshit. So even Trump had no idea of which way the electorate was going to swing. But he sure appreciated the useful pundits calling it his way prior to the count.

          Ultimately, the Marmalade Mongrel didn’t need to go with that plan. The claims of fraud suddenly ceased and now, of course, miraculously, the election according to him has turned out to be a massive honest endorsement of him and a total exoneration of all the criminal charges against him, it proves the rape complainants were all liars and witch hunters deep state eating cats scary sharks blah blah blah.

          • The way to take electoral fraud and false allegations of electoral fraud out of the picture is the open ballot. The way to stop opinion polls skewing voting patterns is continuous election. All the defects of current electoral systems can be fixed through radical electoral system reform. Trouble is that is the last thing the politicians want. They want to be able to rort the system, or to falsely accuse their opponents of rorting the system.

  12. Will the convicted felon n chief, Trump, initiate any inquiries into all the election cheating he has continuously alleged, or does it all magically disappear just because he won, like some miracle, almost like it didn’t even exist in the first place! He’ll probably declare the election the most fair and square honest election in history.
    And is all the media who called the election still fake news, and a so called enemy of the people?
    At least the Ukraine war will be finally coming to an end shortly, since Trump said he could end it within 24 hours, thank goodness the world is now a better safer place!

  13. Trump managed to shatter the glass ceiling and make history. An overlooked minority is now represented by the incoming president. America finally has it’s first convicted felon as president.

  15. In 1933, retired German General Erich Ludendorff sent a telegram to German President Paul von Hindenburg regarding his appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Reich:

    “I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation.

    Future generations will curse you in your grave for your action”.

    . I suggest prefixing the last word with “in” and forwarding the quote to Merrick Garland. It may as well be his epitaph.

    Forget the navel gazing and social and political analysis, this calamity came about through repeated failure of US judicial systems to ever hold Trump to account, starting decades back. It is beyond belief that Trump, as an insurrectionist and felon, was even allowed on the ballot.

  19. Saved from drowning in virtue signalling ineffectual bullshit by a ‘rapee’ arsehole who has clear designs to be a dictator . . between the devil and the deep blue sea.

  20. Richard Christie November 5, 2024 At 10:14 am
    Previously undecided voters have been splitting in favour of Harris for many weeks now, by wide margins, particularly amongst women.

    Trump will lose the election by a handy margin but expect a serious shit fight afterwards.

    I’m hoping Musk is largely ruined because of all this as well. In any case, I certainly expect Tesla to crash within 2 years Musk is in this because he’s as desperate as Trump.

  22. dems didn’t have any policies that would actually help people..minimum wage, rent control, healthcare etc…the same old neo lib stuff just doesn’t cut it, trump is as mad as a cut snake but he says he’ll do ‘big stuff’ not just tinker round the edges….
    like other western democracies the us needs a real left alternative, identity politics is not left but is the very embodiment of selfish self importance.

    • Gagarin “ … selfish self importance.” Spot on. Watching the puerile egotism of the Green and Maori Party ignorami in the New Zealand Parliament is massively disheartening, and worrying.

    • I think the reason for Trump’s victory is still the 2008 economic crisis. When corporations exploited lax regulations to the breaking point, hurting hundreds of millions of ordinary people in the process.

      We still don’t have any closure on 2008. No meaningful policy reforms, no holding people accountable. Corporations got bailed out with taxpayers’ money, then some regulations were tightened, but that was all. The only meaningful change is that the people responsible for the crash are even richer now.

      Proper closure in my view would have meant the breakup of overly large corporate entities, a 90% wealth tax above a certain threshold, and of course mass arrests. This did not happen, which I think was a breaking point for people’s trust in institutions. Hence the current wave of distrusting authorities, anti-intellectualism, science denial, and so on.

      Viewed from a 2008-perspective, US elections stack up like so:

      2008 – people realize the system is rigged against them. A charismatic Obama promises change and hope. People want closure on the crisis, so he gets elected.

      2012 – after a lackluster 4 years there is no good alternative to Obama. Maybe this time he’ll enact the changes and reforms he promised.

      2016 – Obama is a disappointment for most. Trust in political institutions is at an all time low. The Democrats run Hillary, promising the status quo. Trump, an “outsider” populist firebrand wins, promising to drain the swamp.

      2020 – Trump’s disastrous handling of COVID costs him the election. The Democrats thus manage to slip in a status quo candidate in Joe Biden.

      2024 – Kamala takes over, continuing to promise the status quo. People forgot the COVID debacle, so back comes the “outsider” populist firebrand into the White House.

    • I don’t think you were paying attention Gagarin. The Dems certainly had concrete policies in most of those areas and many more.
      Sure, they were within the neoliberal paradigm, but Trump didn’t offer anything that wasn’t in it either.
      In contrast, Trump simply spewed empty rhetoric like a 9 year old kid, he was going to fix everything easily, stop millennia-long conflicts within 24 hours, repeal and replace etc. He NEVER offered specifics only generalisations. He seldom delivered anything for his Maga base – instead he constantly generated new controversy outrage and targeted minorities to disguise this fact.
      One of the notable features is that his base never examined what he did deliver and to whom he delivered it. Trump always came through for the wealthy elite, the corporations seeking freedom to pollute, drill and exploit etc.
      His base are just too stupid to look at what he did, instead chasing the libs, the woke and “the others”.
      Trump was no alternative to neoliberal elite control.

  24. Harris was a Democrat Party puppet. One who has only been appointed into positions of power or influence and never had to stand for election outside safe Democrat Strongholds. Much less against a well funded opponent with their own power base.

  25. The big takeaway is that the western political establishment is now embracing Trump. Sure, they are couching it in terms of “peaceful transition”, “democratic principle” and “respect for the will of the people” rather than a political endorsement, but the long and short of it is that they are saying they can work with Trump (Christopher Luxon) and think that they can control him. Such is their faith in the power of the machine. It may work out like that, or it might not. Either way, the people of the world will have a fight on their hands.
    The media is now doing a quick about face, walking back on everything they were saying in the weeks and months before the election. Having forecast a Harris win, they are now declaring that the signs of a Trump victory were clear and obvious in the leadup to election day. What a joke.

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