'Trumpstore'

Prolegómenos: 

Insoportable levedad de la vulgaridad; sobre cómo Zizek tiene que romper huevos para hacer una tortilla. 

'Sextrump'; sobre la explosión del sexo en política, la postruth: glacial indiferencia ante la verdad, y la irrupción de la hipocresía desatada.

EL 'realitysmo'; sobre la irrefutabilidad de la nostalgia en política: "el mundo progresa en la misma medida que añora".

Gas sarín; sobre la era Trump: se consolida la libre circulación (sin aduanas) de las mentiras y se inaugura la política como arte de lo imposible, ahora todo vale, ¡esos excesos de la imaginación!

Cinco razones para votar a Donald Trump; sobre el cerebro reptil, primitivo, del hombre contemporáneo, ¡Pinker!, y sobre cómo Trump se ha comido la corteza moderna...

La democracia; de cómo en la intimidad de las urnas se cuece la nación más feliz del mundo

Be careful!; de cómo una cena con malos chistes y bromas pesadas pueden destruir una nación entera.

Postrump; postruth, de cómo la propaganda crea sus propios enemigos.

El votante de Trump; de cómo se imprime sobre la naturaleza humana las erupciones de su contradicción.

Butler sobre Trump, un fragmento de la larga entrevista (La entrevista es perfecta, incluso cuando realiza afortunadas y críticas observaciones sobre La condición humana de Arendt) 

<< ZEIT ONLINE: But you would not include them into your notion of the precariat?

Butler: The problem is, neoliberal economics produces precarity throughout the population without discriminating between right and left. So there are some right-wing people, or people who have become more right-wing, because they are blaming the migrants for taking their position, but they are not identifying the root of their problem, which is an expanding precarity that cuts across economic class, though the very rich continue to profit. They have decided to blame the migrant rather than to look more carefully at some fiscal and financial policies that are actually jeopardizing the well-being of increasing numbers of people.

ZEIT ONLINE: Could you say a similar thing about Trump supporters?

Butler: Oh, the Trump supporters….

ZEIT ONLINE: … something that is very interesting to Germans.

Butler: Well, it is all rather unfathomable. I think there is an economic component to the support for Trump. For some of his supporters government has gotten in the way of their capacity to make a good living and to succeed financially, so they are against regulations, against government. And that can include paying taxes and workplace regulations meant to secure the health and safety of workers. They applaud the fact that Trump has not apparently paid federal taxes and they think: "Yeah, I want to be that person".

ZEIT ONLINE: There is a lot of rage?

Butler: I think they have an enormous rage. Not just against women, not only against racial minorities or against migrants – they are thrilled that that their rage is being liberated by his public and uncensored speech. We on the left, we are apparently the superego. What Trump has managed to do, rhetorically, is to identify not just the left, but liberalism – basic American liberalism and the left – as just a bunch of censors. We are the instruments of repression and he is the vehicle for emancipation. It is a nightmare.

ZEIT ONLINE: What about his overt sexism and racism?

Butler: What Trump is emancipating is unbridled hatred and, as we see recently, forms of sexual action that don't even care about anybody's consent. Since when did we have to ask women whether they are okay with being touched, or why? He does not actually say that, but that is exactly what he is indicating. It liberates people, their rage, and their hatred. And these people may be wealthy, they may be poor, they may be in the middle; they feel themselves to have been repressed or censored by the left, by the feminists, by the movement for civil rights and equality, by Obama's presidency, which allowed a black man to represent the nation. 

"We are shocked when violence gets close to us"

ZEIT ONLINE: Some Trump supporters say he won't act upon his hateful presumptions should he get into power.

Butler: I think that people who say that to you are disavowing the truth, in the sense that they don't want to appear to you as if they like all the hateful things he says. They just think: He will close the borders, he will go to war, or he will cut through the red tape in government. But the fact is: they are willing to live with the hateful things he says. They don't necessarily agree, but they accommodate it, which means that they do not object. They are implicitly lending their consent to that discourse. Many people are taking private pleasure in his discourse. They may not be able to say that out-loud, because we are supposed to be ashamed of being racist, or being sexist, or being homophobic. But they harbour those feelings privately. >>