Interesting and insightful, but also clueless in parts.
Trumpism, even as Trump’s personal influence fades, will persist as a movement that channels the existential fears of a civilization in freefall, longing for a return to integrity and self-expression. The power of the archetype lies in its resonance with a people alienated by the deep state – Trump articulates their despair, even as his achievements remain modest. His role is to act as the last expression of Western vitality, not to reverse the downward spiral but to embody the final brave spirit of a people grasping for survival in a world disintegrating into frenzied insanity. Spengler leaves no room for optimism about the material success of such figures, yet the archetype persists, drawing its strength from the same impulses that herald the end of the West’s historical cycle.
Interesting and insightful, but also clueless in parts.
THAT, imho, is a paragraph full of BS.
I agree