Time and time again Trump does supposedly stupid stuff, supposedly demonstrating what an ignorant stupid buffoon he is, and then, strangely and mysteriously, wins.

The explanation for this strange mystery is that he is playing the game at a level his enemies do not understand, playing a different game by different rules to that which his enemies are aware of.

Recent events need to be understood in terms of the left’s theory of legitimacy, and Moldbug’s theory of the uniparty.

The Uniparty

Democrats are inner party of the uniparty, the high status inner members of the uniparty, Republicans are the outer party, the low status outer members of the uniparty.

Until the Kavanaugh nomination, Republicans were utterly determined to lose the mid terms in the house by any means necessary. Even though individual Republicans want to win their races as individuals, they don’t want other Republicans to win their races, because this would put them in a position where they are under pressure to implement Republican policies.

Democrats wield the carrot and the stick over Republicans. The carrot being “Cuck out and we will allow you to crawl close enough to us for us to spit on you”, the stick being, as we have seen in the Kavanaugh crisis, actual stick.

Trouble with wielding actual stick is that if you wield too much stick against too many Republicans, the two party system is likely to rise from the dead. Remember all those complaints that Trump’s Kavanaugh tweets were not helping? They were helping collapse the uniparty system. Trump knows how to trigger his enemies into acting unwisely. Today, the two party system rose from the dead. Today, Republicans voted on party lines for a judge that will rule that it is legal for Republicans to govern. In the next month, chances are that Republicans will campaign to win the house.

Legitimacy and Color Revolution

Legitimacy in general means, “Should be obeyed, even when you disagree or don’t like it.” But the only people who are supposed to ever do this are conservatives, because when progressives don’t like it, it’s illegitimate. The Democrats are the party of the priesthood, the party of Harvard, and the priestly class gets to define legitimacy.

So:

If people vote or some lower authority figure acts against progressivism, any other institution whatsoever is fully justified in neutralizing and reversing the outcome by whatever means necessary, and those institutions are portrayed as ‘legitimate’ which means that it is everyone’s holy duty to defer to them, at the very least, surrender and acquiesce in submissive and obedient resignation, but more often, they are supposed to recognize that the action really does flow from the ‘rule of law’ and accurate universal principles and the “true meaning of democracy vs mere populism” or whatever.

On the other hand, when the shoe is on the other foot, these institutions are illegitimate, biased, corrupt, tribal, ultra-partisan, extreme and radical right-wing, etc., etc., usually racist, and basically Nazis. And “anti-democratic” as opposed to anti-populist or pro-Constitutional constraints. They deserve zero respect or deference – indeed, constant criticism, protest, public shaming, and personal destruction – and progressives should feel free to ignore any pronouncements of such an institution as presumptively suspect and inherently invalid.

The priests denounce the sovereign as illegitimate, and this sometimes manifests as color revolution: a handful of priests storm the winter palace, successfully applying hard power, because the warrior class, who could crush them like ants, have been neutralized by priestly soft power. To do violence to violent priests would be “illegitimate”.

Today, a handful of priests stormed congress, and the warrior class crushed them like ants.

From time to time some judglet from Hawaii rules that Trump’s policy is racist, therefore that judge gets to exercise executive, legislative, and fiscal authority and overrule the President of the United States. I have been urging and expecting Trump to pull a Tony Abbott, and use military power to overrule the courts, or to pull a Duterte, and just plain terrorize the courts, but to my surprise he has so far adopted a more moderate course, and appointed judges who will reliably rule that the elected president and the elected party have the right to govern.

This will put the priestly class in the interesting situation of claiming that the president, the congress, and the Supremes are illegitimate.

If Trump is to assume his rightful place as God Emperor, he will sooner or later have to pull a Duterte, but perhaps he judges that the time is not yet. Likely, when the priestly class is campaigning on the grounds that President, Congress, and the Supremes are all illegitimate, the priests will burn the Reichstag.