I don’t know about his comment on transgenderism, but Slavoj advocating to vote Trump is more about shaking up the liberal status quo to wake them up and actually do a better job, rather than him supporting Trump, and also to do away with Democrat Party’s mantra of “vote blue no matter” and their proud label of “lesser evil”. Come Trump 2.0, his reasoning proved to be prescient and correct. The Democrat leadership are fighting harder to stop the progressive Zohran Mamdani taking power as New York Democrat mayor, than actually stopping the Republican fascist agenda. As we speak, the Democrat betting on the “voting blue no matter who” is starting to crumble from the POV of voters as outsider progressives are slowly gaining ground.
I don’t think his reasoning was prescient and correct, though.
If Trump wins, both big parties, Republicans and Democratics, would have to return to basics, rethink themselves, and maybe some things can happen there. That’s my desperate, very desperate hope, that if Trump wins—listen, America is not a dictatorial state, he will not introduce Fascism—but it will be a kind of big awakening. New political processes will be set in motion, will be triggered.
he will not introduce Fascism
Neither party rethought anything (your point about Mamdani shows just how little the Dems have rethought) and now the US is rounding people up to put them in camps.
And re. the transgenderism/Freud comment, I think it mostly serves to show that he puts way more stock in Freud than he should, because Freudian psychology is largely a load of wank.
(Yes, the use of a sexually based pejorative to disparage Freud was deliberate. Please appreciate my clever joke.)
I don’t know about his comment on transgenderism, but Slavoj advocating to vote Trump is more about shaking up the liberal status quo to wake them up and actually do a better job, rather than him supporting Trump, and also to do away with Democrat Party’s mantra of “vote blue no matter” and their proud label of “lesser evil”. Come Trump 2.0, his reasoning proved to be prescient and correct. The Democrat leadership are fighting harder to stop the progressive Zohran Mamdani taking power as New York Democrat mayor, than actually stopping the Republican fascist agenda. As we speak, the Democrat betting on the “voting blue no matter who” is starting to crumble from the POV of voters as outsider progressives are slowly gaining ground.
I don’t think his reasoning was prescient and correct, though.
Neither party rethought anything (your point about Mamdani shows just how little the Dems have rethought) and now the US is rounding people up to put them in camps.
And re. the transgenderism/Freud comment, I think it mostly serves to show that he puts way more stock in Freud than he should, because Freudian psychology is largely a load of wank.
(Yes, the use of a sexually based pejorative to disparage Freud was deliberate. Please appreciate my clever joke.)