And then there’s an individual named Donald John Trump.
He is considered especially dangerous because of what he effectively transmutes socially, both from and back to, the majority of Americans: individualism. This is the precise antagonism to progressive Left ideology, because everything they stand for is based on group behavior, group consensus, group solidarity, and group thinking. It derives its power from fear, and its value from perceived authority. Its authority stems purely from institutions, and its methods of coercion, including its obsession over the control of free speech and free thought, depend desperately on sustaining the illusion of institutional legitimacy, authority, and dependency: on lowering your God-given natural confidence, and replacing it with man-given doubt and controls.
I’m not so naive to think that Trump is an entirely independent entity: he is susceptible to influence like anyone else, but he is also more vulnerable because he is not by nature an institutional actor that fully understands or is facile with, the sociology of institutional hierarchical behavior (or compromise).
A political counterpart, such as Obama, is just the opposite; he is a classic organization man. He fully cultivates and serves, the entire institutional apparatus of the DNC, its systems, and its culture, and is sustained utterly by it. He is a true agent, and an institutional object. Trump is, but not to the same degree, or of the same kind. Even if his individualism may be thought rude, unsophisticated or uncultivated, it stands, still, as a threat because he symbolizes independence.
But as I asserted earlier, it is also a specific kind of Americanism, and it invokes a kind of political “metaphysics” of the individual, that completely defines America’s founding, the founding that is also the enemy of the radical Left that seeks to erase it. Erasing America starts with erasing individualism.
R&I – TP
ConservativeChick
Article URL : https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/the_real_reason_trump_is_a_threat.html