The Case for Trump 2024: “Worse Is Better” Is Tomorrow

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In the 2020 election, I was exhausted with Donald Trump and was ready to move on from the Trump era and bought into a limited version of the “worse is better” accelerationist argument. Donald Trump lost the 2020 election because he lost his 2016 margins among White men.

Here is why I am not longer in the “worse is better” camp:

1. In 2024, I am still exhausted with Donald Trump and ready to move on from the Trump era. If Trump had won the 2020 election, he would actually be preparing to depart the political stage, but instead he is poised to win the presidency in 2024. Trump will likely be around until 2028.

2. If Donald Trump loses the 2024 election and Kamala Harris wins, I cannot see Kamala Harris stepping down from power. She will run for a second term. I am certain that Donald Trump will claim the 2024 election was rigged and stolen from him because of the lawfare. He will run again in 2028. MAGA voters who are in thrall to a cult of personality will hand him the nomination again. The 2028 election will be a Trump vs. Kamala Harris rematch like the 2024 election was a Trump vs. Biden rematch.

3. If you still believe “worse is better,” you can wake up tomorrow to experience it. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are obviously both puppets of the same Democratic elite who are currently in power. After four years of this, our people have accepted the status quo and no state has tried to secede from the Union. There hasn’t been a revolution or a civil war. Virtually no one has embraced National Socialism. Instead, it is Donald Trump who has benefited the most from the backlash to Joe Biden’s politics. If Trump loses the 2024 election, the MAGA cult of personality will remain in thrall to Trump. He will run for president again in 2028. He will benefit from the backlash. It will be Groundhog Day all over again.

4. “Worse is better” is an activist cope. Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. White Nationalist activists were unable to harness the backlash to the Biden presidency. They were unable to capitalize on rightwing discontent. Activist brain has alienated them from conservative normies. Their comms team spends all their time sneering at the stupid “Whiteoids” and “rightoids” on X. Just like the Left, they build organizations to suit the tastes of activists, which then predictably fall apart in internecine conflict when their jargon and extreme rhetoric fails to resonate with their rightwing audience. Contempt for the audience is a handicap that prevents White Nationalist activists from gaining traction.

5. I agree that life will continue to get worse under Kamala Harris. I agree that conservatives will continue to radicalize. I am sure this will register in the polls. I do not think it is worth it, however, if the result of this is a Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris rematch in 2028. Is bringing in another 10 million illegal aliens or continuing to lose our purchasing power worth it for a Trump vs. Kamala rematch in 2028?

6. The importation of 10 million illegal aliens in four years and the trannies shows that “worse is better” ends with worse being accepted as a new normal.

7. Donald Trump has been the “accelerant” in our politics since 2016. Future historians will remember our time as the Age of Trump. Joe Biden has been a sedative and both the Right and Left have demobilized since 2021. The Biden years have been relatively quiet compared to the Trump presidency which culminated in the Summer of Floyd and the triumph of Wokeism. The radicalization of conservatives began under Trump in the summer of 2020 during the George Floyd riots. The Revenge Tour is at least as “accelerationist” as a Kamala Harris presidency.

8. The fact is, we have all been impacted by “worse is better” in the form of higher prices and the loss of purchasing power, and it must be admitted that this has caused financial stress. We have to deal with this in our own lives. Even in the Third Reich, normies voted their pocketbook and chose Hitler because of inflation and not because of ideology, which is what they are doing with Trump.

I am willing to sleep on it though.

If I wake up tomorrow and see that anything has fundamentally changed with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in power, I will reconsider my preference for Trump to win the 2024 election. In particular, I cannot see how another four years of this is going to transform the White Nationalist movement into a more capable political force on the Right when activists seem to be moving in the opposite direction.

If Trump announces he is suspending his campaign, retiring from politics and the MAGA cult of personality loses its grip on the Right, I will also reconsider my position on this. More than anything else, I do not want to be stuck in this loop into the 2030s, which is why I would rather get it over with.

Note: I should add here that I am not referring to the Happy Warriors who are upbeat, positive, confident and who are creating a fun atmosphere that is attractive to outsiders. I am referring to the people whose negative energy sucks the fun out of the room.