When words lose their meaning
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One of the striking features of the American right wing’s floridly paranoid world view is that it’s quite difficult to say exactly what these people are either for or against. Donald Trump utterly dominates American right wing politics because, among other reasons, he doesn’t bother to even try to articulate any kind of coherent argument about what, exactly, his supporters should be supporting or opposing:
Former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday cast both his indictments by prosecutors and his bid for the White House as part of a “final battle” with “corrupt” forces that he maintained are destroying the country.
The apocalyptic language came in Mr. Trump’s first public appearance since the 38-count federal indictment against him and a personal aide was unsealed — and in a state where he may soon face additional charges for his efforts to pressure Georgia election officials to overturn his 2020 election loss there. It was Mr. Trump’s second indictment in less than three months.
“This is the final battle,” Mr. Trump said in the speech to several thousand activists, delegates and members of the media who gathered in Columbus, Ga., at a brick building that was once an ironworks that manufactured mortars, guns and cannons for the Confederate Army in the Civil War.
“Either the Communists win and destroy America, or we destroy the Communists,” the former president said in Georgia, seeming to refer to Democrats. He made similar remarks about the “Deep State,” using the pejorative term he uses for U.S. intelligence agencies and more broadly for any federal government bureaucrat he perceives as a political opponent. He railed against “globalists,” “warmongers” in government and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
Mr. Trump also described the Justice Department as “a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out immediately,” calling the special counsel, Jack Smith, “deranged” and “openly a Trump hater.”
And he attacked by name Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., who is weighing criminal charges against Mr. Trump, calling her “a lunatic Marxist” and accusing her of ignoring violent crime and instead spending all of her time “working on getting Trump.”
Calling Trump’s opponents “communists and “Marxists” makes as much sense as calling them Nestorians or Rosicrucians or secret agents of the Order of the Golden Dawn. It’s just nonsensical gibberish, utterly unconnected to things that exist or at least existed in the world. “Globalists” is just straight up classic anti-Semitism, and the concept of a conspiratorial deep state is just classically paranoid.
None of this makes any sense, but it doesn’t have to make sense: indeed you could consider it a kind of adaptive nonsense, since actually articulating what the right wing opposes — a changing, increasingly pluralistic and multi-ethnic country — is impossible to do without sounding like a 180-proof racist nativist, who is wedded to a kind of extreme cultural reaction that has been losing every battle in the larger culture for generations now.
Trump’s total incoherence is, in this context, a strength rather than a weakness. He represents people whose lives have devolved into a state of constant inchoate rage at the thought that the world is changing in ways they hate and can’t actually stop.