The American Right Grows Up
Auron MacIntyre, The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies, Regnery, 2024, 208 pp. The American Right talks about power, realism, and human nature. It acts politically like a naïve child. The American Left talks about equality, empathy, and...
I agree on Trump, but you're probably overselling the qualities needed to solve the current woes for America.
I is true that the person who emerges to cut the Gordian Knot will be an exceptional person, the reality is that he will emerge from a cadre of exceptional people and effectively harness that collective will to be free of the old order.
What's needed effectively is a better coalition (which, presumably, is forming now) and a leader with popular appeal that isn't an 80 year old man. The tactical stuff takes place in a war room and the best minds of humanity are yearning to break away from this bullshit.