This morning President Trump finally capitulated to the demands for him to concede his loss of the election. He then went a step further by ensuring his colleagues and the opposition party that the transition to President-Elect Joe Biden would go smoothly. This concession statement comes immediately following the incident of Trump supporters storming the Capitol and occupying it for a short time. If there ever was a moment for Trump to cross the proverbial Rubicon, it has just passed with a whimper. While this is an upsetting development, it should be in no way mystifying to those trafficking in dissident rightwing politics.
Trump repeatedly showed his friends and enemies alike that he lacked the conviction to follow through when it really mattered. When the southern border wall issue had reached the point of fruition or failure, he punted when he still had options on the table. When his supporters were being persecuted for standing up to antifa by his Justice Department, he was silent. Now that the blood of a patriot, Ashley Babitt, has been shed on his account, he acquiesces.
As much as rightwingers want Trump to become the “God-Emperor,” he will never fill that role because of his personal weakness and because of the frailty of his position. Those familiar with Neo-Reaction must remember that the presidency in the U.S. is not what it once was. The last president with powers comparable to an autarch was FDR, and he slammed that door behind him. To borrow a term from Curtis Yarvin, the president is simply the head “oracle” in the bureaucracy that is Congress, and its subservient departments. He can accept or reject orders that are brought to him, but he cannot manifest executive power himself.
This became laughably clear when every single of his executive orders were shot down by the courts. No, the power in this country still resides with Congress and the gaggle of unelected officials that surround it. This power was never more on display than when Trump’s congressional “supporters” pulled that support. Trump was only acting brave yesterday because he was allowed to. Once that support was abrogated, the result was what occurred this morning.
People should be angry with Trump for his personal failings and for selling them a pretty lie, but they should be far more enraged by what the GOP is and represents. If this rushing of the Capitol has done anything, it’s clearly demarcated who supports the real Right in this country and who doesn’t. For that, it should be counted as a blessing. Going forward, people should think long and hard about ever supporting the GOP again.
-By Dixie Anon
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
Right, don’t support the GOP. But since we are utterly unorganized and don’t have any form of mass communication or any cohesion at all, then we will support the GOP, forget not to, then support them again, then not support them, forget, then support them again and on and on and on.
We must organize and unite as Southerners and start acting as a people or die.