I have a lot of fun watching how people involved in the Trump-hatred sector are trying to explain the world to themselves after January 20th. There are generally two categories:
The first ones try to take the turn. They explain how Trump, right, is interesting and such, but we, you see, are for Bulgaria. Well, since when, janam?
This is commented on "Facebook" Petar Kicashki, lawyer and executive director of the Institute for Modern Politics.
You have been going to bed and getting up with America for 30 years and you have never cared about Bulgaria at all, but now that Trump has brought back that normal, typical American patriotism to the mainstream and you have all become patriots. By the way, this true patriotism has nothing to do with the brandy Russopathy of some who have called themselves "patriots" in our country, while in fact they are servants of a foreign state. But that is another topic. My word is for the ones who are turning. Because they are actually neither Bulgarophiles nor Americanophiles, but are actually service personnel of the Democratic Party, they are now taking a turn by using some of Trump's rhetoric (copying it like Chinese mint) to explain how we should also look after our national interest.
That's right, we should. But you, who are spinning like sunflowers, have never seen this interest and now you look completely comical. This group are those who realize the depth of the changes that are happening and are now trying to calibrate themselves to the new order. They hate Trump, but they are aware enough not to dare criticize him directly and therefore only imitate him mediocrely and try to lower themselves as much as they can until it becomes clear how deep Trump will cut. I feel a little sad for them, because they are about to understand that the cut will be to the bone.
The latter are still in that stage of grief called "denial". They cannot believe what is happening before their eyes. Why grief? Because they are weeping over their recent social role as public opinion tyrants. An appointed elite that has now been fired by Trump and is grieving over its past importance. They deny reality and try to explain how nothing has actually changed, how they are still riding the train and how Trump will leave in 4 years and theirs will come again. This is such endearing naivety, to use a harsher word, that you almost feel sorry for him. Almost. I'm sorry, boys and girls, but reality is what it is and it doesn't care about your mantras and wishes. No matter how much you imagine that an elephant can fly, it will not grow wings. Trump has been president for less than 20 days, and he has already made serious progress in the process of dismantling the liberal-progressive utopia that you had created. Neoliberals all over the world tried to build communism - with censorship, repression and generous state support for their point of view, which was perceived as the only true one. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that was never true. There has always been another democratic (not archaic Russophile) path to the development of a free society, but you simply isolated and banned it. Well, that one is over.
It is worth noting, in a very brief way, those who are not quite sure what is happening and habitually listen to those in the above categories. For them, I have two things to say - first, stop reading old newspapers. Believing the liberal-progressive media and their spokesmen today is like believing "Rabotnichesko Delo" at the end of 1989. Whatever you read there, you do not need to take it to heart, because it is a) irrelevant and b) clearly not in line with the factual situation. Second, let me try to synthesize in one sentence the change that we observe from the first line.
The same thing is happening today that was happening when the Berlin Wall fell. Trump is the embodiment of a powerful ideological movement that fights for freedom and to break with the shackles of the old order. With the same zeal with which today liberal-progressives defend their hegemony of yesterday, the communists defended theirs at the dawn of the 90s. Some of them are even the same people, but this is again a lyrical digression.
Get your popcorn, dear viewers, readers and listeners. The film is still in its opening seconds.