Trump is what happens when Steve Bannon reads Evola.
Trump is what happens when Steve Bannon reads Evola. Bannon reads Evola and takes only the aesthetics—the gesture, the pose—but misses the essential point: the nation is precisely what destroyed the empire. The nation is bourgeois particularism, the logic of accounting, territory placed above principle. Bannon thinks he is resurrecting a sacred order, but all he is doing is plugging metapolitical software into an old-school market nationalism. Trump is merely the Bannonite symptom. The nation is the enemy of empire. Empire embodies universal principle, verticality, transcendent order. The nation is horizontal, calculating, bourgeois—it replaces quality with quantity...