the fix is in boys, the fix is in (the heavens of 'public opinion' move)

'the thing that I kept thinking about liberalism in 2019 and 2020 is that these guys have all read carl schmitt—there's no law, there's just power.' 

j.d. vance, soon-to-be president trump's running mate, in  jennifer szalai,'s the nazi jurist who haunts our broken politics,  new york times, july 13, 2024.

horsemouth is watching the heavens of 'public opinion' move. this is (of course) not the confused sea of voices that is the real opinion of the public but an averaged and cleaned up unitary voice.

so what does this voice say? 

trump showed 'courage under fire', he seems 'genuinely emotional' at his adoption as republican candidate, his tone seems 'presidential', even biden cannot fail to refer to him as 'the president'. there are voters who see him as god's anointed. 

why even bother having an election, the media has decided. with a neat switch he has become the unity candidate who can bring america back 'together'. 

of course trump could still lose it and return to his previous status by returning to the attack but then he has people to do the attacking for him. his new vice president elect vance for example. 

biden is on the back foot, his mental acuity doubted, his words examined, 'the bullseye should be on trump' mr. president, isn't that unnecessarily violent?   

the fix is in boys, the fix is in. 

horsemouth remembers a similar switch with obama. where he went from 'could never get elected with that name' to saviour of the nation in a few short weeks. 

vance is an interesting character - an american politician citing the nazi jurist carl schmitt -  a personal friend of curtis yarvin, who writes neo-reactionary toss under the pen name of mencius moldbug, someone with ties to silicon valley libertarian venture capitalist peter thiel and all that money. 

it truly is a nightmare. 

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horsemouth has come to the last of the six utopias discussed by anna neima in her book the utopians - aldous huxley and gerald heard's trabuco college. the shortest lived (perhaps) but also the transitional one from inter-war utopia to post war counter-culture, the set up for the hippie commune.