{"id":84079,"date":"2020-10-07T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/libertarians-and-anarchists-for-trump\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:54:43","slug":"libertarians-and-anarchists-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/libertarians-and-anarchists-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"#Libertarians and anarchists for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Libertarians and anarchists for Trump<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Adnan R. Khan: In Organic Valley, America’s anti-establishmentarians, from the left and the right, converge in support of Donald Trump\n <\/div>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t believe in the political spectrum as a line,\u201d Eddy Nix, 51, a life-long anarchist and owner of Driftless Books and Music in Viroqua, Wisconsin, tells me. \u201cIt\u2019s a circle. As an anarchist I\u2019m just as pissed off by about 80 per cent of the things Trump voters are.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Viroqua, Nix represents a species of swing voter that may turn the November presidential election one way or the other. In 2016, he says he watched Donald Trump\u2019s rise with \u201cgiddy excitement,\u201d not so much because he saw any hope in Trump but because he had become so cynical of the political system after the \u201cfailure\u201d of Barack Obama to deliver on his promise of \u201chope and change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, well, the whole system is gonna collapse anyway so why not have this guy come in and speed it up,\u201d he says. \u201cI know it\u2019s a terrible attitude but you get to the point where you\u2019re so cynical about the system that blowing it up doesn\u2019t sound so bad, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-establishmentarianism is a popular political flavour in Viroqua, a weird and wacky small town not far from the home base of Organic Valley, the world\u2019s largest cooperative of family farmers, where Trump voters, libertarian homesteaders, leftists and liberal back-to-basics urbanites converge in an eclectic political stew. In 2012, Vernon county, of which Viroqua is the largest town, voted solidly for Barack Obama\u201456.5 per cent\u2014in large part because it seemed like a young, black president was about as far as you could get from the old-white-man establishment. In 2016, it flipped to Trump\u201449.3 per cent\u2014in what locals tell me was a rebuke to Obama\u2019s establishmentarian ways.<\/p>\n

\"Viroqua,<\/p>\n

Eddy Nix at his bookshop in Viroqua. Nix says many of the core issues that animate Trump supporters also resonate with anarchists like him. (Photograph by Adnan R. Khan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI watched the Trump rise sympathetically,\u201d Joseph Ecklund, 34, chairperson of the Libertarians of Southwest Wisconsin, tells me. \u201cI sympathize with the concerns over corporate power. I sympathize with concerns over military interventionism and I sympathize with the plight of American workers and their sense that they don\u2019t have social<\/a> credit that they used to have. Obama promised to get out of foreign wars but he only deepened America\u2019s involvement in overseas conflicts. He claimed to speak for the common man but ended up a good friend of the corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Nix nor Ecklund plan on voting for Trump but they both know plenty of people who will\u2013Libertarian Party voters who believe Trump will, despite all of his flaws, bring the U.S. closer to their minimal-government ideal, anarchists who, like Nix, want to the whole damn thing to come crumbling down, and even a Bernie Sanders supporter here or there who would rather see a bull wrecking the White House than another vanilla-flavoured neoliberal reclaiming the throne.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have relationships with Trump supporters and it\u2019s almost always been about the corporate establishment for them,\u201d Ecklund says. \u201cTrump has so much money that he can\u2019t be bought, and it\u2019s so much better to have an imbecile breaking the system than to have a system continue to exploit the lower and middle classes to serve the special interests, the banks and the military industrial complex. That\u2019s been the narrative for every Trump supporter I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> revelations that Trump doesn\u2019t have as much money as he claims and that he has been reporting massive losses from his core businesses to avoid paying taxes won\u2019t change their minds, Ecklund adds. Firstly, in their eyes, this is the New York Times,<\/em> a \u201cfake news<\/a>\u201d mainstream media outlet that has been working with the Deep State for years to take Trump down. Secondly, the revelations only reinforce the narrative of an anti-tax president. \u201cFrom the Libertarian perspective, he\u2019s just being consistent,\u201d he says. \u201cHe\u2019s against taxes and he\u2019s found ways to get out of that extortion racket.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fiction may seem preposterous to rational thinking humans but there are still large segments of the U.S. population that buy into the myth of the American frontier spirit, where a man is a man and he makes his way in this world through his own labour and determination and no one, especially no damn authorities, can stop him. Trump is their new champion.<\/p>\n

In Viroqua, and more broadly in Vernon county, this frontier spirit comes naturally. Many of its residents came into the area to escape the structures modern life imposed on them, to get closer to the land and build something themselves. Nix was one of the early urban homesteaders to come in during the late 1980s. Together with others, he established the local Waldorf high school where he taught drama.<\/p>\n

Charlene Elderkin, who also helped set up the school and now works in the local cooperative supermarket in Viroqua, says it\u2019s not necessarily a question of anti-government sentiments that drives the local community but simply a lack of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s already a spirit here of doing,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s not much government to begin with so when something needs to be done, like setting up a Waldorf school, people just get together and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nix concedes that there was a time he would have snubbed any contact with conservatives but living in Viroqua and running his own business where he interacts with Trump supporters daily has helped him dig a little deeper. He\u2019s now arrived at a place where instead of rigid categories, he\u2019s found an entire universe of personalities and world views.<\/p>\n

\u201cConservatives are still people,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019ll stop and help you if your car breaks down. But there are so many myths these days, and they\u2019re equally toxic on both sides. Suddenly, these Trump voters are your enemies and Nazis and it\u2019s like, no man, they\u2019re your neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Nix is dumbfounded by their continued support for Trump after what he calls years of broken promises and lies. But he also understands, and in many ways, supports their desire to disrupt a dysfunctional political system. The establishment must fall, he says. Everyone at least agrees on that.
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