"Not because liberals and their Democratic Party have learned from the incident and used it as an opportunity to galvanise meaningful opposition to Trump's authoritarian surge, but precisely the opposite because it allows them to go back to their blissful slumber, ignore reality, cling to cognitive dissonance, denial, ahistorical wishful thinking, and the complicity that is integral to white privilege within a white supremacist order."
"The reality is that liberals do not see Trump and his supporters as a substantial threat. They consider him a fleeting deviation, believing the pendulum will ultimately swing back to the reliable liberal system. In fact, liberals do not even substantially disagree with the core of Trump's policies. After all, both right-wing and liberal elites are loyal servants of empire, the latter just give it a veneer of humanitarianism."
Liberal reaction to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and swift reinstatement exemplifies a broader pattern of liberal establishment complacency. Liberals prioritize restoring familiar performers and institutions over confronting authoritarian threats and systemic injustice. Many liberals view Trump as a temporary deviation and expect the system to self-correct, rather than mobilize sustained resistance. Liberal and right-wing elites both uphold imperial and capitalist structures, differing mainly in rhetorical framing. Shared policy commitments include corporatized healthcare and education, labor exploitation, mass incarceration, militarized policing, censorship, corrupt campaign finance, and extractivist militarism abroad. Liberal complicity is reinforced by cognitive dissonance and white privilege within a white supremacist order.
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