Trump showed that they can win without having go give ground on anything. That the hands of the clock can in fact be forced backwards.

The end of Jim Crow. Roe v. Wade. Same-sex marriage. Obama. Young leftists see these things as normal and don't realize there are people who remember a world before it.

If you're an older leftist you've lived through the revolution. If you're an older rightist, you've lived through the apocalypse.

which i think is what trips many "it's not fascism!!" commentators up. they are trying, but they have not succeeded. i think it is bad enough that they are trying. that alone is worth fighting.

anyways. we see this on full display in Trump II, at least in attempt. the aesthetics are undeniable. equally undeniable is their failure at mass mobilization at anything like the scale of the third reich. they are trying, but they have not yet succeeded.

this is not an aesthetic accident, but core to the whole project. fascism is an attempt to update atavistic forms--visions of societies as biopolitical communities competing for scarce resources in a zero-sum world--with the essentials of modern power: technology and mass mobilization

How to do a facism:
Step 1: Fire most of the competent people.
Step 2: Alienate your own military by making them do stupid stuff and having them take the blame for it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Become God-Emperor of Mankind

so there just isn't as much need for these paranoid excavations of "evil amongst us," the evil has just made itself highly obvious, they have flags and slogans and a political party in charge of a country. woke 2 is about power: how do we gain it back and what do we do with it after.

Woke 2 is distinctively an ideology of Trump II, when we no longer need to go looking for some hidden enemy, no longer need to work to uncover the infiltrators and the enemies hiding their power level

the enemy is out in the light and screaming about how much they hate us, there is no mystery there