Why is Orange Man Bad? By Eric Peters

Trump has all the right enemies. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

What is so bad about the man with the orange tan? Why does he trigger people with blue hair so?

We all know why.

It is not so much the Orange Man himself but rather what Orange Man has awakened. Specifically, the consciousness that America – the traditional conception of it as a nation-state that puts its people first – is being deliberately undermined by people who see America as a kind of administrative district of their hoped-for World State, one modeled on the old Roman empire, in which all peoples co-mingled but were all beholden to the same central authority.

More recent expressions of this concept were the Austro-Hungarian empire of the Hapsburgs and (not long after) the formation of the European Union. The latter having transformed the once-distinct nation-states of Germany, France and other “members” into what the once-independent states – plural – of these United States became after the consolidation of the American empire; after the “rebellious” states of the Southern Confederacy sought to assert their independence.

Well, Trump – in his way – is also “rebellious.” Or – more finely – he conjures a rebellious spirt, in traditional Americans.

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