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From the Counter-Currents 2025 Spring Retreat symposium on America and Europe in the Age of Trump.
I do think there is a great deal of use in what has happened. We’ve lived since the rise of wokeness—over the last 10 years or more—in this fantasy world, this clown world, this insanity.
Often when a person on the individual level is delusional, it takes something to shake them out of it, something quite dramatic. A lot of so-called normies were shaken out of their stupor of slavishly conforming to wokeness and indeed coping with their own insecurities and negative feelings by telling themselves that “I have the worldview of high status people, and that in a way makes me high status and thus morally good and better than other people.”
COVID in many cases sent people down the cliched rabbit hole of investigating other lies that they are told. And I think in many cases, actually—certainly among older people—by transsexuality and the lunacy over that did the same. Now, I don’t know if that has got so far in America or other countries as it did in the UK, where literal rapists were able to transition, without any operations on their genitals, and then go into women’s prisons, as if it’s acceptable that, for a woman that’s stolen the load of stuff to get drugs, an extra part of punishment should be being subject to the possibility of being raped in prison. It’s lunacy. And so this has gradually shaken people out of things.
But when they’re shaken out of things, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ve got a sense of confidence about the future, a sense that things can get better, a sense that sanity can be claimed back. And I think that for some people, Trump has done this.
Although he is clearly, frankly, mentally unstable. He’s worse than a “loathsome man.” He’s unstable. He’s a grandiose narcissist who copes with his own problems by telling himself that he’s perfect and wonderful.
Yes, that’s true. But that doesn’t mean that we have to have a binary division whereby we say that he’s either a good president or he’s a narcissist. It doesn’t work like that. Often people who have identifiable personality disorders also have many qualities, and he has that quality of charisma and being able to make people feel that a cold world is warm again, which is what Weber said. Let’s say a crazy world is sane again.
He is prepared via the fact that he just doesn’t care. He’s prepared to ambush the president of Ukraine, Zelensky. He’s prepared to ambush the president of South Africa, Ramaphosa. He’s prepared to go for it.
And this, of course, gives Europe, the fat menopausal mistress of the United States, the confidence, I think, to doll herself up a bit, lose some weight, maybe get some Botox, and feel better about herself. And you go girl, and, you know, I hear some of the best sex women ever have is in their sixties; put away those pussycats and put on those skinny jeans.
And so I think that that’s the thing. It’s this moment whereby he can inspire people back to sanity and at least help to slow down the collapse of civilization or allow the collapse of civilization to happen by people breaking away and creating a Byzantium rather than total chaos.
So I was very skeptical when he was elected, and I thought, “Oh, he’ll just do nothing. He’ll just do what the British government did over the last 14 years: absolutely nothing.” But obviously he was shaken the first time around by the extent to which the deep state stopped him from doing anything.
He’s learned from the first time around. You could even argue if this was a drama where the main character—the tragic hero or whatever—is meant to spiritually grow, to grow in his character and learn things. Maybe he even has done that. Maybe it’s possible for an narcissist to have some self-knowledge, and enough to do that.
And I think he has done that. So I think there may be some positives to this, and it will possibly help Europe. That is more important to me as a person that lives in Europe. I don’t like going to America because I hate tipping. I like the prices on the menu to be the price I pay. And if they don’t include tax, and they don’t include tipping, it’s just a lie. It’s a lie. So I’m more concerned about Europe, and I think Trump will perhaps help parts of Europe to wake up and break away and get a bit of that European spirit back.