Trump, Musk, and the New Right: An Epochal Shift?

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Whatever we think of Trump, his tenacity and drive is incredible.

[@mabaker]

We don't think anything of Trump.

[@BellBeakerBloke]

@@mabakerYeah, we do, and you’re dumb if you don’t. Jew.

[@Jared0203]

“That American can now dream again.” Yes, this was honestly the immediate reaction I had on learning of Trump’s election-a sense of imagination and possibility coming alive again. I was reading Walt Whitman the few weeks before the election, and I caught moments and glimpses of the kind of vital pulse of America that he was overflowing with. Not phony jingoism or forced patriotism, but something greater than that. It is all a sigh of relief at the very least, the kind of sighing relief that brings the life back into you.

[@JosephKelly-uj1zo]

Without starting with pronouns, alter personalties, unicorns or whatever other BS was clogging up communication.

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

Mate, that's a splendid comment to read (nearly wrote 'beautiful' but caught myself in time. Splendid, biggly so). A return to our magnificent literary inheritance could do wonders for the English speaking world.

[@Jared0203]

@@b.alexanderjohnstone9774 Thank you and I agree! I think Whitman is very relevant now (not that he was ever irrelevant) and many others I’m sure. Also, pretty recently it was discovered that Whitman wrote a series of newspaper columns under a pseudonym that are not far off from what somebody like a Raw Egg Nationalist might write. Very interesting.

[@TheSunship777]

Thanks!

[@kwilliams2729]

We have just witnessed history in the making. I’m so interested in what lies ahead. Looking forward to future discussions.

[@familyshare3724]

Optimistic about what will be, unburdened by what had been. :)

[@reinedire7872]

I'm not one to put much faith in the princes of this world, but this is the most hopeful I've felt in a long time.

[@melinamunkkirkegaard9949]

Brilliant, I hope this is the beginning of a paradigm shift into a world in peaceful coexsitence and prosperity. Greetings from Denmark.

[@nicholasfevelo3041]

This is a 50 to 100 year project to counter "march on the institutions" for us

[@SLTYMILK]

We did it, boys. We are so back!

[@mabaker]

If you attach your identity to one obese man I think it's time to touch grass.

[@davisoneill]

You aren't. You're still a victim.

[@MylesNewman-cc1tx]

From republic to empire to republic.

[@csk4j]

Very cautiously optimistic!

[@Readabookfoofoo]

Great analysis and vision. Thank you.

[@Rawdiswar]

Glad this channel found me.

[@nupraptorthementalist3306]

You are go-to for philosophy of politics; I've very deliberately and even perhaps unreasonably ignored all to do with politics until it became impossible-increasingly impossible-to actually ignore. I know when I see it, who knows what they're talking about. my*

[@OrwellsHousecat]

Thanks MM, your work has been invaluable for me to make sense of what's been going on these past few years. By temperament I'm not a Thinker, so it's been good to get insights from those who've done the legwork, if only to know the map if not the territory

[@thinkingcitizen]

We Did It Fellas! We saved our nation !

[@vibrolax]

The change in the Zeitgeist this past week reminds me of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the USSR. In contrast with the happy faces of the _Vremya_ newsreaders, who were wondering what it might be like not to lie for a living, the faces of the US regime's media ranged from apoplectic to morose. As we know, the people of the former USSR have had a few bumps along the path to national renewal since that time. No doubt the people of the USA are in for a few changes in the days ahead. They voted for it, against the full-spectrum efforts of the ruling elites. None of the institutions support Trump, just dissident individuals (some of great personal capability) who have been harassed or cast out by the ruling regime. Trump has better cards in his MtG deck this time, and the genuine support of a majority of the non-elite. I hope he succeeds. At the very least, I don't expect him to quit.

[@keystoneken5032]

Thx!

[@erdempekoz5164]

Hello from Istanbul, Türkiye. Interested in your commentary in coming days.

[@shayes610]

Keep up the good work brother! You have such a unique understanding

[@millerman]

Thank you

[@aionarmstrong]

Very nice, I like part about dreaming and building. Made me think of Kekulé and Nash, would be cool topic for future video

[@Michaelfrikkie]

The foundation of global liberal hegemonic power was largely constructed through neo-feudalistic corporatism, technocracy, oligarchy, and similar ideologies. Each of these systems aims to centralize control over individuals, treating them as isolated entities by disconnecting them from their own independent norm-forming communities.

[@Badbentham]

Colonialism, in a nutshell.

[@Michaelfrikkie]

@@Badbentham Actually feudalism is the opposite of colonialism. If you have a truly independent norm-forming community able to rule itself and choose your own ruling ideology, you might well choose a kind of feudalism, but liberal hegemony does not allow any other power structures than a universal liberal empire

[@Badbentham]

@Michaelfrikkie True; feudalism at its core is based on the premise of smaller, self-ruling, entities, while the final goal of Liberalism is a global super-structure, ruling with divide-and- conquer: In that very specific sense, I can understand the opposition of the "neo-feudal" South against Washington DC 's liberalism /clear colonialist ambitions during the US civil war.

[@Michaelfrikkie]

@@Badbentham I don't think the initial ideas which won out in the Civil War were universalist like modern liberalism. But you are correct in identifying it as the seeds of what became post-WWII Liberal Global Hegemony. The cause of most of our problems today.

[@timothykalamaros2954]

Conservative revolution is apt

[@Caligula138]

What an amazing timeline Millerman. Cheers

[@morganp7238]

Interesting upload, as always, thank you. I have two "requests": 1. An introduction to Trudeau for non-canadians. 2. An introduction to philosophy to highschool graduates organized according to foundational principles (rather than historical) to give kids the most important concepts to build on.

[@kwilliams2729]

@@morganp7238 I agree with both, but especially number two (high school level preferred for our student).

[@Mongoloid69]

I just wanted to say thank you for your introductions on right-wing (anti-liberal) philosophy because a lot of young people were indoctrinated in communist indoctrination camps.

[@esroot12]

There really is nothing insightful about Cerno. Any student of politics already knows what he wrote. His problem is the fact he’s hot and cold on Trump’s abilities, and is in one post ready for the knife fight, but in the next, he totally capitulates. Not very Gorilla.

[@mikecook7334]

Thank you, Michael. Let’s all hope for a peaceful future, rich in ideas…

[@familyshare3724]

Trad does not mean backwards. Trad brings culture, philosophy, morality, humanity forward.

[@Tetrian]

Question regarding the end of Wokeism etc.: wasn't this already anticipated in 2016? And what was the final outcome? I remain extremely skeptical.

[@eveningprimrose3088]

I was thinking that this felt like another "end of history" moment. I remember feeling the last one, when the Berlin Wall fell, and using that phrase in my own mind before I ever heard anyone put it into those words. This isn't the end of history, but it feels similarly...millennial? Let's savor these next few minutes.

[@csk4j]

It's exciting to hear about big building projects again in America instead of gloomy industrial suffocation. It seemed like all the great projects were happening in the Middle East and China. Without the fear of destroying the environment, it will be interesting to see if we will get some impressive new architecture projects and infrastructure in America again.

[@Jmanthegamer]

Hello Michael, I quite enjoy your videos. You have inspired me to dig deeper and learn about the movement as an outsider. I find the perspective that you (and by extension the thinkers that channel through you) to be intriguing and testing. I have been a follower for a few months now. But, I am an outsider and reading all the comments in this thread, how inspired and optimistic they are, I feel like a challenger might be necessary. Everyone here has the zeal of a revolutionary and that scares me. The sentiments of salvation and being a part of History (capital intended) gives me pangs of Jacobins or Bolsheviks. The last 50 years of history have seen the greatest increase in the material quality of life and liberty for the most amount of people EVER and the formula for that success was neoliberal democratic capitalism. The Washington Consensus (or New World Order or Liberal World Order or Rules Based International Order etc.) of individual liberty, free markets and private property has brought us in North America and Europe a previously unimaginable era of stability and wealth generation. Will this "Epochal Shift" give us the liberating American Revolution or the terror of the French Revolution? But this time the consequences global and the stakes global nuclear destruction? When the "Regime" is replaced what will it be replaced with? (Not to say that I believe Trump nor these people that he surrounds himself with will actually be able to overthrow it.) Will they replace our current institutions with new ones that fulfill the People with a sense of Meaning and Virtue? Personally, I wager that this movement is people who are dissatisfied or contrarian filling the perceived god-shaped-hole in themselves and society with a fiery brand of right-wing politics that will only end up corrupting those who fill that hole with Trump, an indelicate, crude, degenerate and small man. I only hope that our polity is not corrupted along with them. And I believe that if this movement succeeds we will be poorer, less free and wishing for a return to the Golden Age, the age of neoliberal democratic capitalism.

[@NA-di3yy]

Я не фанат личности Трампа, но его упрямство и несгибаемость внушают уважение. Семья его должна обожествлять вообще, крутой он мужик)

[@takeahnase_]

The sense of dynamism re US potential after this election is a bit depressing for a European 😢

[@NH-xl6du]

Wagner would have composed an opera about Trump. He's like Parsifal, who finds himself in the Grail Castle with his companions at Arthur's Round Table after a long, stony journey.

[@marie-elsarochebragg5700]

Hi what is that painting of the tree in a boat behind you? It is fascinating!

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

been waiting for this video

[@786Plotinus]

Do we think that this is the beginning of the end of liberalism, or the end of the progressive liberalism and back to a more classical liberalism. Any thoughts Dr Millerman?

[@csk4j]

Great explanation!

[@davidgreenwood6029]

I am just starting the video, so haven't listened yet, but just on the title yes, I feel like this is a huge cultural shift and not just electoral. I think a lot of people have felt pressured by this woke collectivist bs, especially in blue areas, or especially in social groups with women that feel the need to humor them and not challenge them, and have felt alone. I think those people woke up on the fifth and realized they aren't as alone as the collectivists try to make anyone who isn't like them see.I think a lot of people have been made to feel like they are alone, and perhaps even, different, than everyone else, but have come to find that isn't so. Wokeism really was a mass psychosis. How do we know, when we say this, that it is true and we aren't just projecting narcissistic weirdos ourselves? Cus the sense of mass relief, togetherness, and good will.

[@noobzie8963]

The victory is great, but I don’t believe it is feasible to return to a long lost metaphysical tradition. (Even if it were possible, that wouldn’t fix much.) The focus on modern technology is still very dominant and this does not seem to change with Trump.

[@ilyaweissman3135]

Trump 💪🇺🇸 maga 🕎✡️

[@nicholasfevelo3041]

Great take Michael

[@NotAnEvilPersian]

Nice

[@janmalaszek1459]

We desperately need that here in the UK. Maybe somehow this will a shift things here too. We paint on a much smaller canvas. The brief period of hope after Brexit has gone. Repression both economic and legal is the name of the game. BUT people can only be pushed so far, not sure what happens then.

[@thadtuiol1717]

The UK is in a pitiable state, but you lack that strong independent spirit that millions of Americans have, so I doubt you can save yourselves. Sorry, just calling it as I see it.

[@iankclark]

Epochal shift? We shall see. Things seem to be strangely falling into place, though.

[@Brian-kr1pt]

Keyword strangely.

[@garmingarry]

Who would be other intelectuals that I could check out, with their analysis of the current situation and would not be shitting bricks? I like this video f.e.

[@mp1183]

Strauss was the grandfather of the neocons

[@petervote7914]

More countries in the West must follow Trump's path.

[@north-sea750]

Musk may be the world's most competent man. A great man of history.

[@IBIGBEATzZIIHD]

lol

[@davisoneill]

Idiot.

[@The2realistic]

We're seeing an adjustment to the right path (i.e. an adjustment towards reality).

[@jorgemoreno2804]

How is it a resounding mandate when almost half of the citizens don't vote?

[@duffyjas1]

63.7 percent voted, 36.3 percent did not vote.

[@grosbeak6130]

Greetings Michael _ What do you think of Edmund Husserl, and more specifically and on topic with this particular video i. e. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. I'm just starting to read and study him with one of his first books "Ideas", and I think I've just found the philosophical love of my life.

[@WilliamDoyle-rb6lt]

Perhaps President Trump can make Professor Millerman, Secretary of Philosophy?

[@mvibes5926]

Isn’t it too early to look for excuses for Trumps failures?

[@pastacarlin]

Spot on with the anticipation of the tech v trad battle. How do the Christian right types feel about Musk's poly compound? Personally I guess that trump will leave the trad world behind. They are of no use to him

[@suailichirco4165]

An epocal sheet!

[@magmasunburst9331]

It would be wonderful to try some mirror neuron "magic" and state that they will not resist him, and not judge what "all of them will do" before they do it. Believe they will do the right thing and go along when the idealistic forces or Force of life says it is a good thing. I think some program each other, instead of not resisting evil with evil when they need to try to resist evil with good.

[@Jared0203]

“The Power of Positive Thinking” - Trump’s introduction to spirituality/magic. Seems fitting with what you’re saying.

[@eaqiie]

The audio is too loud. It sounds boosted.

[@millerman]

yep

[@griffmccoy5607]

Hey man - can you set up a discord? Would be great to chat with other like-minded guys.

[@ilyaweissman3135]

Dallas tx welcome.

[@hemlock527]

Thanks for sharing your views on Trump's win. Would be great to hear your views on how Heidegger might see a Trump win, given his criticism of liberalism and, like Marcuse, his willingness (at least temporarily) to violate the academic freedom of his political opponents.

[@tonykokk]

Why does the thought of 'meritocracy' keeps popping up? But, when did it ever really exist? It's actually what created the middle class in the first place! And who remembers 'the middle class?'

[@xenocrates2559]

I see Trump as closely resembling Andrew Jackson (history rhymes, as the saying goes.) Both are populists. Both ran against entrenched elites. Both had a strong animus towards the federal bureaucracy. Both want to limit the economic range of the state. Of course there are differences. But I think an historical comparison to Jackson is fruitful and illuminates Trump's appeal.

[@csk4j]

I have already seen some comments about America and Russia possibly getting closer in order to provide a balance of power against China. I don't know if you have talked much about your views on China. China still seems to be somewhat of a mystery. it's hard to know what information that comes out of China is trustworthy. how imperial are they? how nefarious is Marxism at this point? I used to not think marxis was a big problem, many aspects of the great reset seem to have neo-marxist and malthusian tendencies.

[@berserker4940]

Hopefully but he is beholden to too many small hat wearers

[@pood40o72]

Bump!

[@IRosenaur]

I'm very hopeful about the future. It may be that democrats will be making it much harder to implement the changes most of us Americans are waiting for, but at least there's a chance. The Trump administration must be very much aware now of the timespan in which they are to operate. In my opinion, even though Trump is not a president yet, changes have begun to occur all around the world just from the mere fact that he's been elected president.

[@phillipvillani9061]

"They tried to asasinate him" Holy shit, you bought the farm pretty quick 😅

[@sulIy]

I’m curious about how you determined that Trump is putting together a strong team. Rubio and Gabbard have strong, public disagreements that are irreconcilable. RFK Jr has no political weight in Washington. 40/44 cabinet members from his previous administration refused to endorse him for 2024, and we’re already seeing those cracks again. The fundamental hurdle for Trump’s original presidency was his lack of ideology and administrative expertise. None of that has changed.

[@modernmyth9050]

Moldbug and Theil literally gay Jews. Behold The "neo reactionary" vanguard 😅

[@joshlindsey5737]

May be so, but on the other hand I believe Theil would call himself a Christian.

[@bohywOw]

Maybe we're gonna make it after all

[@matthiasmuller7677]

Solar bank ceasar.

[@Graplernapler]

17:37 neoconservatism is a main player in an eternal game of whack-em-all

[@jeff_loveland]

👨‍🏭 🔥

[@Odysseus88]

Ya, Elon will end up being the first and last trans-human superhero and guardian of the right. At least until some sinister plot is cooked up to either hack his brain or create a revival super villain guardian of the left. 😂

[@yttean98]

A glowing admiration of Trump Victory, what about the laws he broke previously, a separate issue? A little disappointed with this review, let us say time will tell whether he would introduce policies what would improve the lives of the support base the ordinary Americans. I am not so sure about that either. Firstly, he would help his mates, the rich oligarchy, then the middle and lower class would get the crumbs.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Don't worry Brit, he'll even save your rainy, depressed island as well.

[@yttean98]

@@thadtuiol1717

[@robertagajeenian7222]

Russia has twice come to our aid in the past. Once during the revolutionary war and again during the Civil War. So, everything Millerman is saying has been seen before.

[@drummersagainstitk]

The ISSUE is Why Michael did YOU vote for KAMALA when you knew she was incompetent? Any analysis is irrelevant.

[@millerman]

I'm Canadian and I support Trump

[@drummersagainstitk]

If that is true, then you should SAY WHY. Otherwise it has little weight.

[@SandyCheeks1896]

@@drummersagainstitkwhy don’t you tell us why you assumed he was an American who voted Kamala?

[@drummersagainstitk]

@@SandyCheeks1896 You snarky btch. You too supported that dingbat just for asking that question. I don't care about MM COUNTRY of origin.

[@drummersagainstitk]

@@SandyCheeks1896 Because a Jewish college philosophy professor from Canada which are 99.9% left would support a white real estate developer who supports National Determinism. That's why.

[@davisoneill]

What exactly is "new" about a group of Oligarchs getting together and ruling a country?