In the days since Trump’s ragtag army invaded the Capitol building on
January 6, numerous politicians and media commentators have had their
say, many of them pointing to the diverse forms of phantasmatic
projection circulating among this scrambled “mob.” This is, we are told,
a pretend legion consisting of QAnon saviours, Civil War reenactors,
off-duty troops, miscellaneous trolls, Christian evangelicals,
out-and-out fascists, anti-hipsters (similar beards, different tattoos),
assorted Boomerwaffen, with the Commander in Chief, overweight and
pulsing in radioactive orange, is cast as Captain America.
One is reminded of that famous passage from Marx’s/Eighteenth Brumaire/:
“Vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, escaped galley
slaves, swindlers, mountebanks, lazzaroni, pickpockets, tricksters,
gamblers, maquereaux, brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ
grinders, ragpickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars.” This jumble may
understate other kinds of social coherence involved in the contemporary
right-wing crowd, and the character list is certainly different (though
“discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds” rings true). But the only
term to describe an insurrection that features a white supremacist
shaman is “postmodern,” a situation where any image, or belief, can
seemingly be combined with anything else.
https://spectrejournal.com/the-rabble-and-the-door/
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