Fascism-adjacent language comes naturally to American politicians for some ungodly reason. President Biden’s recent proclamation that “without unity, there’s no peace” is straight-up axe-in-a-bundle-of-reeds stuff, völkische nonsense, as is most “unity” talk. The superstition that the state is the nation — that it is the source or instrument of our identity as a people, and that the chief executive of the national government is a provider or guarantor of national meaning or unity or some other metaphysical good — is the very foundation of fascism. The American people, in their hundreds of millions, do not require unity as some sort of patron’s donation from Washington — what we require from Washington is only liberty, the rule of law, and competent government. Given that Washington cannot reliably provide any of those three, perhaps the ladies and gentlemen of the capital city should abandon their spiritual pretenses.
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