In this election, the illiberal liberal class wins no matter what. With Trump, they get to throw a hissy fit and declare the election stolen, the result of Russian meddling or MAGA tampering, and they have four years to dramatize the minutiae of Trump’s time in the White House, from his phone calls with world leaders to his time spent on the toilet. With Harris, they get to tearfully proclaim the making of history as America inaugurates a woman of color as president, and when she engages in war crimes, corruption, and reneges on campaign promises, it will be dismissed as inconsequential, as just getting her elected will be significant enough. The illiberal liberal class will swoon over her and laud her as a breaker of glass ceilings- it will be nauseating to watch. It’s hard to say what will be more stomach churning, that or another four years of The Trump Show. What is certain is that whatever happens, the illiberal liberal class wins.
It is less than a week until the 2024 US presidential election, and with all the polls showing a dead heat between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, it is worth responding to some who wonder aloud why the election is so close, why Harris is not running circles around Trump in the polls. This thought was captured in a New York Times article by David Brooks titled ‘Why the Heck Isn’t She Running Away With This?’[i] Throughout the article, Brooks argues that both major political parties in the US have become religious instead of political organizations, bent on maintaining purity and loyalty over persuading outsiders and welcoming new members, as, in each party, “power lies with priesthood — the dispersed array of media figures, podcast hosts and activists who run the conversation, define party orthodoxy and determine the boundaries of acceptable belief.”[ii]
Brooks is not wrong that there is a priesthood in US and Western party politics, but it is not one separated across traditional party lines, between Republicans and Democrats, right and left. The priesthood that dominates our politics is that of Western exceptionalism and the belief that America and its allies are entitled to rule over and to impose their political ideology onto the rest of the world under the guise of humanitarianism, via concepts like The Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This is what Jean Bricmont refers to as ‘humanitarian imperialism’, where imperial domination is expressed through soothing, warm rhetoric about liberation and protecting the sanctity of democratic freedoms.[iii] What Brooks says that the Democratic and Republican parties are “no longer just a political organism; it is a political-cultural-religious-class entity that organizes the social, moral and psychological lives of its believers.”, is true of the uniparty that rules Washington, ensuring that no matter who is president, policy remains in place and the empire is upheld, despite its crumbling.[iv]
In the corporate media, there are acceptable and unacceptable beliefs. The former are aired nonstop while the latter are ignored or presented as punching bags for stenographers. As Noam Chomsky showed, the corporate media manufactures consent and establishes the lines within which debate is held. On the issue of Trump, debate about him and his supporters is focused on the lines of race, gender, anything except class or anti-imperialism. Would the imps at CNN or NBC ever venture into states like Kentucky or West Virginia, where US overdoses and suicide rates are heavily concentrated, and some counties have 30% or even 40% poverty rates? No, it’s easier to call people irredeemable garbage. The priesthood of the uniparty will do anything to avoid discussing the real problem of Trump, that he is a symptom, not a disease.
The problem with Trump is not his illiberalism, it is his brazenness and rashness, his uncouth nature and tendency to go off script. He is an embarrassment for the ruling class and the permanent regime. Harris may be moronic and incompetent, but her identity and willingness to submit to the orthodoxy of Western exceptionalism makes her a useful tool to distract from the criminality of the ruling class, as it was when Barrack Obama was president.
The Obamas and celebrities like Oprah Winfrey claim that they are victims in America solely because of their identity. Their obscene wealth and power are irrelevant, as they stand before podiums and lecture working class Americans on how they are required to vote based on their own identity. There is no consideration of their economic or class interests. Thus the hunger that people have for the rhetoric and uncouthness of someone like Trump, who, though he is essentially a political insider, having been president for four years and in the same circle as corporatists and elitists like Jared Kushner, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk, is still able to present himself as a political outsider, a wrecking ball intent on smashing the US political establishment. The Democratic party and Harris’s new habit of clinging to pathetic warmongers like the Cheney’s only helps Trump pitch himself as anti- establishment.
Lavishing the support of the exact Republicans that Trump’s populist rhetoric seeks to extinguish from the GOP proves that Harris, like Clinton and Biden before her, is a haven for imperialists and friendly fascists, while Trump’s GOP is home to faux populists, slick opportunists, and unruly elites who have no desire to truly deconstruct the Washington establishment.
A huge concern surrounding this election is whether Trump will accept the results and concede to Harris if he loses the vote. Although this is an understandable concern, we should be equally concerned and disturbed that the Democrats will accept the results if Trump wins. While he did throw an authoritarian tantrum over his loss in 2020 to Biden, deeming it the ‘stolen election’, Clinton did not accept, and has still not accepted, her loss to him in 2016, continually referring to it as a steal, assisted by the Russian government.
A recent election in Europe illustrates how the illiberal liberal class feels about elections that do not go their way and their willingness to renege on their claims to love democracy and freedom. In Georgia, the ‘Pro Russia, far-right’ party, the Georgia Dream (GD) party, won with 54% of the vote, and the Georgian president, leader of the opposition, Salome Zourabichvili, immediately contested the election results and referred to what happened as a “Russian special operation”[v] She also said to her supporters that “This was a total rigging, a total robbery of your votes,”, and she implored them to go out into the streets to protest the election.[vi] Biden and other Western leaders have put out statements questioning the election results, insisting that they be investigated for meddling, mainly by Russia, who, according to many, is the prime beneficiary of the results. A “total robbery of your votes”, does that sound familiar? Of course it does, it sounds exactly like Trump, however, since the results of the election favor the ‘Pro-Russian’ party, they must be contested, just as it was necessary to contest Trump’s victory in 2016, Brexit, Viktor Orban, Nicolas Maduro, and countless other elections the US does not approve of.
If the last presidential election in Brazil had gone the other way, and Jair Bolsonaro had won, the illiberal liberal class’s response would have mirrored that of Bolsonaro’s supporters, and the election would have been proclaimed a steal by the far-right. The Western ruling class’s reaction to the Georgian elections proves that not only do they not care about democracy, though we did not need more evidence of that, but that they are the ultimate hypocrites. They project their own horrid, autocratic behavior onto Trump, and they do it openly and more effectively.
This US presidential election, like the previous two, is being touted as the most consequential in history for the entire world, not just America. This implies that if Trump wins, US foreign policy will change dramatically, as many scholars and commentators have said repeatedly for a couple of years now. Though some begrudgingly admit that the main differences between Harris and Trump on foreign policy are about rhetoric and attitudes towards alliances and issues like climate change, not over the routine machinations of the US foreign policy blob.
Nye writes in an article predicting the future of US foreign policy depending on who wins the looming election that although there are significant similarities between Harris and Trump, a stark difference is their views on multilateralism, and that Harris “also would be more likely than Trump to issue statements promoting human rights and democracy.”[vii] So what? The Biden administration may have issued numerous statements extolling the virtues of human rights and liberation, but Harris has not distanced herself from Biden’s foreign policy, which is largely a continuation of Trump and his predecessors.
The spectacle of Harris parading around with the cretinous Liz Cheney, and her applauding the Cheney family’s endorsement, together with the rage some illiberal liberals are feeling over George Bush’s refusal to endorse Harris, proves that Harris, like Clinton in 2016, is not a repudiation of authoritarianism or fascism, she is a friendly face for it. This is proven further by her decision to capitalize on Jeffrey Goldberg’s recent article in which he claims, using anecdotes from former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly, that Trump said that he “needs the kinds of generals Hitler had”, meaning he felt that he needed military leaders who would swear undying loyalty to him and would carry out his policy ideas without question.[viii]
Goldberg is a monstrous hack. He spread lies birthed by the intelligence community about WMDs and Saddam Hussein’s alleged ties to Al Qaeda which led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the outlet he works for, The Atlantic, also spread the infamous story that claimed Trump called US servicemembers “suckers and losers”, which was swiftly debunked by Trump staffers, many who despised him.[ix]
It is interesting that Kelly was apparently told by Trump that he wanted generals like Hitler’s, but instead of immediately reporting this as another bombshell amid thousands released during Trump’s presidency, Kelly decided to wait years until days before the election, dropping an October surprise intended to hinder Trump’s chances in the election against Harris. This is a strategy bound to fail, just as the release of the Hollywood Access tape in 2016 did not impede Trump against Clinton, even with women.
In 2020, the coverup of the New York Post’s story reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop may have swayed the election for Biden, we’ll never truly know, but Goldberg’s piece quoting Kelly and other former Trump officials on Trump’s alleged adoration of Hitler and other dictators is an obvious attempt to smear Trump, and to bolster the narrative that the corporate media is trying to perpetuate about him and his political movement, that he is a reincarnation of Hitler and that he is the leader of a Nazi movement. This strategy is epitomized in the coverage of Trump’s recent rally held in Madison Square Garden, which was compared by The Washington Post and other outlets to a Nazi rally held in 1939 in the same location in which American Nazi’s professed their admiration for Hitler and The Third Reich, their outrage at what they viewed as overt Jewish control of finance and media, and white supremacy.[x]
Equating Trump’s rally to such a bigoted and vitriolic event is grotesque. What makes these claims even more ridiculous is that they are being reported as news, not opinion pieces. For the illiberal liberal class, it is not their opinion that Trump is Hitler, or that his followers are mutated bigots beyond help, it is a fact. They have convinced themselves that they are on the brink of Nazi rule and thus their rhetoric is becoming increasingly deranged and unhinged. If Trump wins, this will only get worse.
Harris and the illiberal liberal class’s reliance on hideous imps like Kelly, Mark Esper, Bolton, Cheney, and Michael Hayden is not only vomit inducing, but it reeks of elitism and a clamoring desire to ensure that US imperialism churns on without any deviation or questioning. Trump’s election in 2016 was a rejection of people like Esper and Bolton, who Trump went on to cram his cabinet with. What hurt Clinton was her coziness with corporatists and warmongers, as well as neoconservatives who fled the Republican party in favor of a Democratic party under her leadership. Snuggling up to psychopaths like Liz and Dick Cheney will only bolster Trump and Vance’s argument that the deep state is intent on thwarting him and his agenda, and by proxy, the anti-interventionist desires of his supporters. No matter who wins next Tuesday, the outrage and disenchantment that fuels Trump will continue to fuel him in 2028 or whoever supplants him as leader of a frayed, cultish GOP.
As the world is being torn apart by multiple crises, Biden is MIA, and Harris has been heaped with adulation and overtly manufactured praise. With Trump being his boisterous, outrageous self, and Vance being raked over the coals for calling people like Harris “childless cat ladies” and allegedly having sex with couches, it seems like the odds favor Harris and Walz in a couple of days, but it is still early days, and it may prove difficult to prop up Harris.[xi] Harris has yet to sit down for an adversarial or challenging interview and has still not published any substantial policy proposals on her campaign website, and she has posted some drivel, mostly criticisms of Trump and The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.[xii]
Over the past few weeks, I have been hit with multiple YouTube ads featuring Harris begging me to send her donations in her fight against Trump. Aside from vague babble, it is impossible to tell what Harris truly believes or supports. She has this in common with Trump, as before Trump ran as a Republican candidate for president, his positions on many social issues, like abortion and gay marriage, were liberal. As a Republican, he adopted strong stances on abortion and gun rights. Harris is undergoing a similar transformation, becoming what she needs to be to satisfy the permanent regime while pretending to be just radical enough to assuage the ‘progressive bloc’ of the Democratic electorate, meaning the faux radicals who prioritize an identitarian brand of politics totally bereft of substantial issues or beliefs.
Harris is touting her ‘pro-abortion’ stance as a contrast to Trump’s apparent desire to impose a federal abortion ban, however, this will not happen. Even if it did land on Trump’s desk, he would almost certainly veto it, much to the chagrin of the religious right. Further, since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Biden, Harris and the Democrats have made little effort to codify access to abortions, and they will not, as if they do, they will lose a major piece of bait and they will have to ponder new policy proposals to sway voters, instead of just beating the long dead horse of abortion rights. Importantly, as Harris has said on several occasions, she does not differ from Biden on key policy positions. If elected, she will be a continuation, not a shift, from her withered, skeletal boss.
Outside of abortion rights and LGBTQ rights, it is unclear what Harris’s views are on significant issues of domestic policy. Especially on foreign policy, it is obvious that she does not deviate even slightly from Biden or whoever is running the show while Biden’s mind is in Neverland. Some have pointed out that Harris will likely replace Biden’s staff, but her advisers on foreign policy and national security will not differ in ideology from Biden’s team. All that will change is the puppet, not the puppeteers. Proof of this is in profiles of Harris’s key National Security adviser, Phil Gordon, a specialist on Europe, often referred to as a “Europeanist,”.[xiii] He is a welcome ally to European officials because of his decades of experience and his “fondness for Europe.”[xiv] This may be soothing for elitist louts in the EU, but surely it is the job of US officials to have a fondness first and foremost for America, the country they are supposed to be working for. Gordon, like Walz, was on the right side of issues like the Iran Nuclear Deal and the failure of Obama’s war in Syria, but his worldview is still Western exceptionalism and thus, any attempt to rein in US empire is for him and his ilk, ‘isolationism’.
It is important to consider that US imperialism is grinding on, unimpeded by Biden’s state of decay, as this only proves that the president is not in control of US foreign policy. Despite the immense, imperial powers wielded by the executive branch, which were recently codified by the Supreme Court, the war machine evidently does not need a ‘leader at the helm’. No matter who is elected, little, if anything, will change. It is thus fitting that Harris is anointed the Democratic nominee and presumptive president after Biden is carried out of office in a crypt. The end of his Crypt Keeper presidency will either be followed by a shrill establishment shill or a brash, vengeful maniac hellbent on revenge for the political witch hunt he has faced since first announcing his candidacy.
The most disgusting lie that is being propagated, and that will be amplified to an unbearable degree should Harris win the election, is that because of her identity, political pundits and illiberal liberal ideologues will proclaim that Harris is making history and that it finally sends the message that young girls like her can one day become president or fill another high profile position of power and influence. Like Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange, we will have our eyes thrust open, then subjected to clip after clip of tortuous gobbledygook, slowly turning into zombified shells of our former selves. The claims from conservatives, that she is a communist, will be equally grating.
A great myth pervading conservative discourse since Harris’s anointment is the myth that she and her VP pick Tim Walz symbolize the ‘leftward lurch’ of the Democratic party.[xv] This is ludicrous, and such a narrative only serves the illiberal liberal class. Harris is a representative of the faux radicals, the type of pretend revolutionary I studied with at university. These faux radicals consume and parrot the needlessly cryptic works of scholars like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, they think enforcing bizarre speech codes is protecting minorities, they believe that any text in history written by a white male must be either read strictly through that lens or ignored outright, and they also support NATO expansion, war with China and Russia, and they treat news that is not ‘right-wing’ as gospel. They also forego critical thinking in favor of peddling whatever narrative they are told to by luminaries at outlets like CNN and The New York Times. The best way to understand the ideology of these people is not to see it as Marxist or left-wing, but as the result of a successful operation by the Western ruling class to distract from issues of economics and war and to instead focus on race and gender, spawning debates over transgender bathrooms and whether there are two or thousands of genders. If we at the bottom stop and see each other as fellow humans under the boots of the illiberal liberal class, their rule will meet a swift and long deserved end. Their most effective strategy is and has always been to divide and conquer, and, sadly and shamefully, we keep letting it go on.
Picking Walz and using the endorsements of various celebrities may have injected enough energy or ‘joy’ as the corporate press robotically calls it to eke out a victory over Trump and Vance on Tuesday, but if he loses, Trump will probably run again in 2028. So long as he is alive his reign over the Republican party will continue.
Voting for one half of the uniparty, Democrats or Republicans, will not solve the problem of Trump. After all this time, the nitwits in the ruling class and their media lapdogs are still scratching their heads at the apparent invincibility of Trump. Even if he is defeated in the next election, he will not go away, neither will populist conservatives like Vance. The likes of Harris and Walz are a mask of faux radicalism and revolution that keeps conservatives frothing at the mouth about the takeover of America by ‘Marxists and Leftists’ and keeps phony radicals duped into thinking that the Democratic party truly differs from the GOP.
Conclusion
It cannot be stressed enough that a Harris win does not do away with what allowed Trump to rise to power. The number of people left behind by a rapidly changing economy will increase in kind. The illiberal liberal class would rather stick their fingers in their ears and pretend that Trump is simply an aberration, a temporary nuisance, like a fly that has been buzzing around the office for years, one swat away from disappearing.
While it may be true that eventually, Trump will be gone, the movement he created and the forces that he tapped into will outlast him and will grow in power. The illiberal liberal class will at some point face their reckoning, one that has been coming for them for years, and should have been seen for what it was in 2016. To learn their lesson, the US empire will have to be torched.
Biden recently responded to an unfunny and colorful joke made at Trump’s “Nazi Rally” at Madison Square Garden in New York by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe that Puerto Rico is a “floating pile of garbage” by referring to Trump’s supporters as “they only garbage I see”[xvi] This echoes Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” remark. Many in the illiberal liberal class are either rushing to cover for Biden, insisting that he was talking about the joke, not American voters who support Trump, however, it is obvious that they view Trump supporters as subhuman, amoral, unsalvageable, waste. They even have contempt for their own voters, as seen in the reaction to Harris’s anointment as the Democratic party nominee despite no primary votes.
This election may not make much of a difference to how US foreign policy is conducted over the next four years, and even most domestic policy, but it is inevitable that the US empire permanently gets a face that fits its behavior since the end of the Second World War and especially since the end of the Cold War, one that is grotesque and despotic.
In this election, the illiberal liberal class wins no matter what. With Trump, they get to throw a hissy fit and declare the election stolen, the result of Russian meddling or MAGA tampering, and they have four years to dramatize the minutiae of Trump’s time in the White House, from his phone calls with world leaders to his time spent on the toilet. With Harris, they get to tearfully proclaim the making of history as America inaugurates a woman of color as president, and when she engages in war crimes, corruption, and reneges on campaign promises, it will be dismissed as inconsequential, as just getting her elected will be significant enough. The illiberal liberal class will swoon over her and laud her as a breaker of glass ceilings- it will be nauseating to watch. It’s hard to say what will be more stomach churning, that or another four years of The Trump Show. What is certain is that whatever happens, the illiberal liberal class wins.
[i] Brooks, David. “Opinion | Why Isn’t Kamala Harris Running Away with the Election?” The New York Times, October 17, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/harris-trump-close-race.html.
[ii] Brooks. “Opinion | Why Isn’t Kamala Harris Running Away with the Election?”
[iii] Bricmont, Jean. Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009.
[iv] Brooks. “Opinion | Why Isn’t Kamala Harris Running Away with the Election?”
[v] Sauer, Pjotr. “Georgia’s Pro-EU Opposition Calls for Protest over ‘Rigged’ Election Result.” the Guardian. The Guardian, October 27, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/27/georgias-pro-eu-opposition-calls-for-protest-over-rigged-election-result.
[vi] Burrows, Emma. “Georgian President Won’t Recognize Parliamentary Election Result, Calls Public Protests.” AP News, October 27, 2024. https://apnews.com/article/georgia-russia-election-european-union-8f040cb30e1d9c9e778383cbcbb7b2c1.
[vii] Nye, Joseph S. “US Foreign Policy in 2025 | the Strategist.” The Strategist, September 6, 2024. https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/us-foreign-policy-in-2025/.
[viii] Goldberg, Jeffrey. “The Atlantic.” The Atlantic. theatlantic, October 22, 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/.
[ix] Goldberg. “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers.’” The Atlantic, September 3, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/., Deese, Kaelan. “John Bolton Says He Didn’t Hear Trump Insult Fallen Soldiers in France.” The Hill, September 4, 2020. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/515132-john-bolton-says-he-didnt-hear-trump-insult-fallen-soldiers-in-france/., and Spiering, Charlie. “Donald Trump Trumpets John Kelly Aide Denial to Crush the Atlantic Story.” Breitbart, September 7, 2020. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/07/donald-trump-trumpets-john-kelly-aide-denial-crush-atlantic-story/.
[x] Bump, Philip. “Another Night at the Garden: How Trump’s Rally Echoed One in 1939.” Washington Post. The Washington Post, October 28, 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/28/trump-rally-madison-square-garden/., and Benen, Steve. “With Racist Madison Square Garden Rally, Trump and His Allies Prove Democrats’ Point.” MSNBC.com. MSNBC, October 28, 2024. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/racist-rally-trump-allies-prove-democrats-point-rcna177562.
[xi] Joffe-Block, Jude. “What the JD Vance Couch Jokes Say about Social Media This Election Season.” NPR, July 31, 2024. https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-s1-5055854/vance-harris-social-media-rumors-jokes., and Maher, Kit, and Eric Bradner. “Vance Says ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ Comment Was ‘Dumb’ but His Point Stands.” CNN, October 12, 2024. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/12/politics/jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies/index.html.
[xii] Harris, Kamala. “Kamala Harris for President.” Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website, 2024. https://kamalaharris.com/.
[xiii] Kayali, Laura, and Clea Caulcutt. “Phil Gordon: Europe’s ‘Ally’ on Kamala Harris’ Team.” POLITICO. POLITICO, August 2, 2024. https://www.politico.eu/article/philip-gordon-us-politics-kamala-harris-us-elections-europe-joe-biden-emmanuel-macron/.
[xiv] Dempsey, Samuel. “Who Is Philip Gordon, Harris’s National Security Advisor?” CEPA, August 21, 2024. https://cepa.org/article/who-is-philip-gordon-harriss-national-security-advisor/.,
[xv] Butler, Jack. “The Limits of Left-Wing Dominance.” National Review, December 16, 2020. https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/the-limits-of-left-wing-dominance/., Jones, Mark P. “Kamala Harris Is Extremely Liberal — and the Numbers Prove It.” The Hill, August 8, 2024. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4816859-kamala-harris-is-extremely-liberal-and-the-numbers-prove-it/., and Lowry, Rich. “President Harris Would Be a Transformational Left-Winger.” National Review, September 3, 2024. https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/09/president-harris-would-be-a-transformational-left-winger/.
[xvi] Rahman, Khaleda. “Is Joe Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comment Kamala Harris’ ‘Deplorables’ Moment?” Newsweek, October 30, 2024. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-deplorables-moment-1977241.
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