Reversing mass migration and reviving European power on the global stage should be the Pole Stars of European liberation. Instead, they are at odds, bifurcated by the divisions between National Populists and Euro-Federalists. This is the tragedy of our age. 

Being impotent, their agency must necessarily be projected onto an exterior figure or symbol - man and semiotic dovetail in Trump. We may dispense with the notion of ideology at this stage, for Trumpism constitutes less an ideology than a fetish: a father fetish for the inert who despise their impotence. They live, truly live, vicariously through him. In actuality, they’re akin to a battered wife suffering from an acute case of Stockholm Syndrome. The MAGA base is content with Trump’s serial infidelity: from foreign interventions to his statements regarding H-1B.

Trump Obsession Disorder is not just a mental disorder that can be contracted by those that hate Trump—although this is the majority of cases—it can also be contracted by those that love him.

From this point, it is no longer a deep artistic exploration of our day and age, it is just a self-congratulatory middle-class neoliberal fable.

Under the leadership of Donald Trump, it appears Republicans are adopting the advice of their party’s young scions.

Cohn’s tears are those of a man who has gained the world at the expense of dignity, progeny, morality, ethnos, parentage, and salvation.