The Future of America on display at Madison Square Garden
In future decades, perhaps, the rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday will be remembered as the moment that the political earthquake that began when Trump descended from an escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015, and continued through the vibe shift that followed the so-called pandemic in 2020, cemented into a decisive realignment.
There’s no doubt that the Right feels the wind at its back. All across New York all week a revolutionary spirit electrified the air of one of the most beautiful autumns in memory. At cafe tables men and women speak with a new freedom; on leafy avenues, black guys blast out Trump’s Rogan interview on their phones like it was music from a ghetto blaster.
More than 200,000 people applied for tickets to the rally and tens of thousands waited in line for three hours on 33rd Street to get into a tightly securitized venue. I attended myself and managed to get in. The crowd was from everywhere, everyone basically normal, a sea of red MAGA hats and curious tourists who knew they were witnessing something historic. Especially visible, and worth mentioning, given the predictable coverage from regime media (framing the rally as “Nazi,”) were a significant number of Orthodox Jews from Chabad.
Nobody is taking anything for granted. Everyone understands that fraud on a scale dwarfing even what happened in the 2020 election would be needed to prevent a crushing Trump win against the most pathetic Presidential candidate in American history, but everybody also knows that the regime is morally, at least, capable of anything.
But MAGA in 2024 is a different proposition to MAGA 2016. Eight years ago, Trump stood almost alone. Today, he is flanked by a new counter-elite of defectors, shaped by the bruising experiences of the last eight years, and hardened by them into steely resolution.
Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., and above all Elon Musk, whose acquisition of Twitter broke the regime’s information monopoly, and with it the illusions on which its power depended, are only the tip of a spear which now extends across the whole of America to the rest of the world.
All of the counter-culture now belongs to the Right. All thinkers and artists of real courage and vision are today with the Right, and cautious, conformist opinion is no longer against it. All that remains are the pathological personalities of the radical Left, and the networks they constitute: to be sure, still in positions of power, but out of ideas, out of energy, and with their grip slipping away.
The ridiculous Kamala Harris – a talentless and charmless individual, with no accomplishments or virtues – is their sigil. What she represents is ultimately not an ideology, but the nihilism and cynicism of an entire contemporary culture, concealing fear and stupidity behind hollow slogans.
As Musk continually emphasizes, what is at stake in the choice between Harris and Trump is not simply a choice between two politicians, but the fate of America, and ultimately the world.
The world cannot survive another four years of the criminality, incompetence, and anarchy that defines the American global empire, just as Russia in 1991 could not survive another four years of Soviet Communism. What needs to replace it is a powerful reassertion of the original American spirit: the spirit embodied by Trump in his astonishing defiance, but also in his essentially optimistic and proactive, all-embracing comic genius.
This was the spirit on stage at Madison Square Garden on Saturday: the spirit of America, uniting, somehow. RFK Jr., the embodiment of noblesse oblige, repeated his effective and concise condemnation of the contemporary Democratic Party. Hulk Hogan reprised his MAGA jester routine. The enormous, cool intelligence of Vance, and Tulsi Gabbard speaking of love, with love in her voice… this is America.
Politically, Vivek Ramaswamy supplied one of the most important statements on the night when he stressed the importance, not only of deporting the tens of millions of illegal aliens with whom the Biden-Harris regime has flooded the country (“Know a tyrant,” wrote Aristotle, “by his preference for foreigners over citizens”) but also of internally deporting three million Federal bureaucrats.
The critical point is to sever the ropes holding down the American giant by destroying a dying progressive colossus and retooling the country into a new light and agile state fit for navigating the ultra-rapid 21st-century global environment: the ultimate network state.
The model is the Promethean America that existed in the late 19th century: a radically stripped-down, mercantile America with an archaeofuturist edge. The goal is not just to turn the page on the failures of Obama’s progressivism, but the mistake of the American Century when the United States became a world-spanning hegemon and then fell into the logic of imperial corruption and decay.
Nobody of course symbolizes the potential in this vision more than Elon Musk, and his stunning SpaceX triumph in early October when his robots snatched the heaviest rocket ever to fly out of the air like a butterfly with chopsticks. What Trump and Musk both know, and why their alliance was inevitable, is that achieving the impossible is the only realistic ambition. By the time Trump himself took to the stage to promise that his return to the White House would initiate the greatest four years in American history, and the beginning of a new American golden age, it was impossible to not believe him. MAGA has already been one of the most remarkable political movements in history; what will come next can achieve interplanetary dimensions, as a reenergized America once again remembers who it is, and how to act.
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