MAGA's Benny Blanco Problem

Why Trump has to annihilate the American left or doom his base

“Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, but of more serious ones they cannot.”
- Nicollo Machiavelli

The aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination has moved the Trump administration to clamp down hard on its adversaries, though it remains to be seen just how hard. Thousands of leftists are said to have been fired from their jobs, with Vice President JD Vance actively encouraging the base to report anyone celebrating Kirk's murder, or just being too much of a repulsive leftist in general. Left-leaning social media tech platforms such as Stream, Reddit, Twitch, and Discord have been summoned to appear before Congress to explain themselves. It is commonly held that these platforms are essentially factories for producing left-wing lunatics with insane ideologies and a nihilistic outlook that amounts to a societal cancer.

The day of writing, Jimmy Kimmel was fired from his comedy show for spreading the false information that it was people on the right-wing who killed Charlie Kirk. Horror writer Stephen King has been forced to apologise for also spreading lies about Kirk’s views. The message is increasingly and refreshingly clear: bend the knee or else!

At the legislative level, the wheels seem to be gradually grinding into motion that will result in leftist networks being declared terrorist organisations, with Antifa being the first placed on the chopping block. Across the West in the post-9/11 world, being called or said to be associated with terrorism is a byword for being an enemy of the state.

As somebody who saw the online right purged for years and eventually clinging on to Telegram as a last redoubt, I of course have no sympathy whatsoever with the Left or remorse that the tables are finally being turned. Indeed, seeing some of the most loathsome shitlibs on earth being reduced to squealing “Whatever happened to the tolerant right?!” is pleasantly cathartic.