I like something that Nick Fuentes said: What we should remember from Trump is the myth, not necessarily the man. It was one man, one guy, one elite that went rogue, to seriously disrupt the system. 2016 was a landmark because it was supposed to be Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush, and the disruption that was brought by the campaign was a mass awakening to the possiblity that something different was possible.
I can maybe write up a post on the power structure within the modern West. I used to post a lot in 2015-2016 on Plebbit when the_donald was still there, was one of the top posters there. Also did a lot of redpilling on /r/worldnews and other defaults before the purge and total lockdown of dissent.
My views on power, how it is hidden and how it is wielded have evolved a lot since Trump was elected. I was overjoyed when he won in 2016, but by 2018 it was clear to me that we wouldn't get fundamental change despite having such a different president in the head position. It seemed that every step of the way it was like there was some invisible force pushing us towards the left. At first I thought it was just the deep state (and it is partially), the system of control is much more expansive. The best description of power in my view comes out of the nRX movement that rose during Obama's term, and I've noticed that some of their lexicon has started to move out of their circles and into much more mainstream sources. For example "The Cathedral" has slowly started to enter more mainstream blogs, I think as we move post-Trump a lot of dissatisfied right wingers will need to rethink the path going forward. Its clear that the classical liberal views of formalized power and voting simply aren't going to work and will only lead to more and more disempowerment for the right.
This type of informal cultural control, even the little silly things like Twitch, is where the real power lies. The distributed network of informal control is so much more powerful than the formal title of president.
Many are realizing that the whole Q trust the plan narrative was a comfort blanket that they adopted to continue feeling good and in charge while informal control of our country was taken by the progressive globalist left.
But the whole game of fighting over who is in charge of the formal role of president ignores the real issue: the real power that rules our country is held in the information management institutions that create the cultural consensus (ie. the overton window). Any president, whether Trump or Biden, will have to operate entirely within this overton window set by the left. Ultimately the ideology that controls these information management institutions, primarily the mainstream media, social media and academia, is who is truly in charge.
The left realized this way back in the 1930s, when the Italian communist Antontio Gramsci's writing created the "long march through the institutions" strategy that the left has followed since then. By the 1960s they had already thoroughly infiltrated most university humanity departments, especially things like journalism and social sciences. The young people who became indoctrinated in the journalism departments of universities then went to become the leaders of CNN, MSNBC, NBC, NYT...etc. The same universities created the ideology that dominates big tech companies like Google. This march through the institutions has been an overwhelming success.
Creating alternative institutions that attract the young and bright people who will be the future leaders is the only way we get out of this mess.
I'm sick and tired at conservatives trying to appeal to the "double standards/hypocricy" to a mainstream that is dominated by a progressive corporate monoculture which feels zero desire to show moral reciprocity. Saying things like "the Dems say we're the racists but then Biden says he will give stimulus preference to black and brown businesses, checkmate libtards" has no effect, because racism is not a universal standard in the modern left's worldview which proudly rejects color blindness and as Kamala says "embraces racial equity". What decade do conservatives think we're in?
The left understands Schmitt's Friend-Enemy Distinction as the core of all politics: you punish your enemies as harshly as possible and reward your allies as much as you can, no matter what. That's what we should have been doing the entire time.
The left's "march through the institutions" that was started way back in the 1930s, really kicked off in the 1960, has now given them almost total control of every major institution within every major city in the country.
This is the primary reason why even when we elect a leader we like, he is completely hamstrung by the left. Removing the left's stranglehold on the information management institutions should be the #1 goal of the right, not just electoral politics.
People say this as if the right has the power to dictate what is to be ignored and not. It doesn't.
The whole lie that people here need to realize is where the true power comes from and why courts are they way they are, why the same judges that Trump nominated are voting against him and for the left. They courts are going to be dominated by the left and every future nominee will be left no matter who the president is because they all come from the same university education system that the left totally controls. They went to the same elite law schools where they were taught by the same progressive professors and formed their values under the same progressive culture as every other judge that would be nominated by someone like AOC.