Fantasies of restoration license risky change by mitigating its threat

Evidence

In Trump’s case, the fantasies of national restoration reassure, mitigating the sense of risk that he provokes. It’s almost as if the fantasies give permission to indulge in the excitement… Vertiginous change and a restored past, all in the same moment; Trump has found a way to renew the formula that the right has successfully deployed since Reagan and Thatcher. (And one perennial problem for the revolutionary left is that it doesn’t have the same recourse to reassuring fantasies, the same appeal to a restored past, with which to leaven the leap into the unknown.) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2032

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Corporate appeals to natural self-healing license reckless short-term environmental damage — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 65