Political compass for the21st century

[Eric the Green]

(06-09-2021, 03:42 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: I am now sure Trump is in the yellow sector.

Trump's views are inconsistent, but his greatest inspiration is Steve Bannon, who is a follower of Mencius Moldbug's neoreactionary philosophy. So let's analyze neoreaction, since Trumpism is merely a watered down form able to function within a democracy. The main claim of Moldbug is that government should be run like a business. He also imagines a patchwork of city-states operating like joint stock companies. Every such state would have a different culture, according to market demands. Sounds like pure Yellow.

Most followers of Trumpism don't have time for the patchwork idea and definitely prefer the nation state. So there is some nationalism, but libertarianism is still dominant. The reason Trump supporters (ones I discussed with) oppose immigration is not so much racial purity but the notion that immigrants disrupt the free market. Many of them have a strong nostalgia for the 1990s, a time when free market was really free. The "Cathedral" of left-wing intellectual elites are opposed because they promote "woke cancel culture" which again interferes with capitalist freedoms, such as the freedom to pay for watching violent porn or publish racist memes on social media. Many Trumpists are quite sexist, and the traits they attribute to a "real man" are precisely traits of a successful market player: emotionless, self-interested, ambitious.

European national-populists are a different kettle of fish and I'm inclined to put them in the Brown sector, for they value national identity for its own sake. They are more influenced by Putin and his "intellectual guide" Alexander Dugin, like Isoko on this site. Poland's PIS has origin in the Solidarity movement, and still has a proletarianist approach to economic issues and exhibits strong anti-Russian sentiment. Both sympathize with Trump as an ally wishing to tear down the globalist "Cathedral" system.

I agree. Your diagram has two social conservative sectors instead of one, and it's like two levels one on top of the other, really. Without those two levels, you can't put Trump where he belongs, which would be yellow but close to the brown sector.


Although the feminist/woke cancel culture left-wing intellectuals may be opposed to porn for violating women's rights and using them as commodities etc., right-wing Trump followers are also against porn because it violates evangelical religious theological mores. Trump personally doesn't really care about either of those, but he positions himself as a political champion of the religious right, and gets their overwhelming support.