Under The Elephant’s Tusks

Theorizing The Right-Wing & the 45^th President of the United States: Donald Trump 

Some people may ask what started QAnon. It was because of the right wing and mostly the 45^th president. The right-wing, which is by far, the Republican Party, which the 45^th president of the United States embraces, following the insurrection on Capitol Hill has led us to believe that it was contrived out of not only the desire to overthrow democracy by way of insurrection; but by the 45^th president himself. Here’s why. We are psychoanalyzing how the 45^th president brought to the forefront the sleeping racism and fear among the white American people which is the fear of losing contrived power as a white American.  The 45^th president is behind the unhinged fear of the white Americans who stormed Capitol Hill. Perhaps these insurrectionists have an agenda and that is to reinstate segregation of Black Americans as well as immigrants who are American, and those who are people of color. 

But why was the 45^th president of the United States, so corrupt? According to Bernard Stiegler, “by failing to give to everyone, and in principle, reasons to live and to hope in this world for something better to come, trust will before long be ruined and the system will cease to function, and will no longer, therefore, supply anything to anyone – not even to those oligarchs who today more than ever use and abuse a power that destroys all reasons for hope, a power that-is therefore irrational.” The 45^th president can be likened as an oligarch. Because of the pandemic, Americans were dying; jobs were lost; children had to stay home. Millions were suffering financially, and millions turned to the 45^th president as their savior. But like oligarchs in the past, the 45^th president took advantage of these hopes and fears to gain more power and control, in a democracy, no less. Under the 45^th president, democracy was then in peril. 

A second point is that the 45^th president is a narcissist. Dr. Mary Trump, his niece, who is an American psychologist describes her uncle as this, “in order to understand what brought Donald—and all of us—to this point [in his presidency], we need to start with my grandfather and his own need for recognition, a need that propelled him to encourage Donald’s reckless hyperbole and unearned confidence that hid Donald’s pathological weaknesses and insecurities.”  

According to Stiegler, “[…] justice that does not exist is confronted every day by the existence of the apparatuses of justice, which are also the institutions of what Freud called the \\\’super-ego\\\’. The superego is defined as that which represses the \\\”expression of desire …: desire understood as psychic energy, but also, because psychic individuation process is immediately a collective individuation process, as social energy. As super-ego, the process \\\’of psycho-social individuation tends to hypothesize justice into law, in positing this as the principle of its functioning.” This quote by no means describes Trump, including QAnon. Using his power, he imposed to the law that immigrants should be held at the borders, taken into custody and that children become separated from their parents.

                 Trump then used taxpayer’s money to build the now infamous, wall. Trump must have psychically felt that he should hypothesize his demeanor and hatred of immigrants into a law in which immigrants must be punished and kept out of America, and that a wall would keep them out. Why we should ask, does he do this? It is the desire to rule over other people and to receive more praise and recognition which makes the 45^th president seem notorious and at the same time a danger to himself and to others, as shown by his actions by way of his laws which are unacceptable, immoral behavior and straddles justice deliberately for his own personal wants and his own agenda which is not the motive of others except right wing extremists. 

            “Desire is nothing other than the binding of the drives and, when desire is liquidated, it is the drives that rule. In this reign, desire can no longer accomplish what is its essence, sublimation, through which psychic and social bodies are elevated as the trans  individuation of individuations (as\\\’ that process through which psychic individuation concretizes itself as collective individuation, which notably engenders all the collective secondary retentions through which symbols, meanings, and synchronic supports are constituted, all those elements through which is composed the diachronization in which individuation consists, and which confers on meanings their sense; that is, their motive: their reasons. This is why the reign of the drives is also necessarily that of stupidity – the worst of all evils, as Sophocles said. The worst of all evils, that is, the most intimate,” which is why the 45^th president did not take his job as a leader and a good example of the American people as a whole, seriously, and why people have created QAnon.

“Stupidity inspires shame! [just as the 45^th president had taken to the bunkers during the left-wing protests over the deaths of black people in their communities, which is a tragedy and a shameful stance to America just knowing that if Black Americans had broken into Capitol Hill, they would have gotten shot immediately.]  [But] because to experience stupidity as stupidity, to find oneself confronted by innumerable forms of stupidity, is to experience the shame of being human – that shame that the Greeks called aidos – the shame of being a mortal. The risk is, then, of treating stupidity as an error, or as the guilt of living this shame as a shame prior to guilt: the risk is of transforming one\\\’s own shame into guilt. This shame, which. affects what is confronted in stupidity, is the experience of that stupidity that most intimately threatens what it affects as the possibility of one\\\’s own stupidity. And it is this structure of auto-affection that, then, tends to transform itself-into guilt, that is, into ressentiment and denial. It is for this reason that Dork Zabunyan can write: \\\'[F]rom a transcendental perspective, stupidity must therefore be understood as being my own stupidity, to the extent that my thought discovers itself as a truly engendered faculty (that is, in Deleuzian terminology, \\\’as a superior faculty) through this natural \\\”powerlessness\\\” that stupidity reveals to him in law.” I doubt though that the 45^th president will ever look back and experience shame because his hatred replaced for narcissism in psychology is of this, his libido is too high and he probably thinks that he will always be right. The qanon leaders are ashamed that their president had not won so their stupidity had inspired shame amongst the groups and their followers.

Because of the 45^th president’s super-ego, Americans had been living in a society such as this. “A society without authority, that is, without super-ego, is inconceivable. The point is not to destroy the super-ego which would be to destroy society but rather to critique the super-ego, and to make this a critique in the Kantian sense: to critique that which one cannot do without (as was the case, for Kant, with reason),” which is the whole of the right-wing and the right-winged media, especially QAnon that supported Trump and his narcissism such as being his administrators and the people such as Kellyanne Conway who had also supported his anarchistic narcissism. Now going back to the super-ego, we can imagine what the 45^th president’s libido would be like as a child for in Freud, an example would be the suckling as a young child, who can never get enough satisfaction in sucking his mother’s breasts. In this case, Trump could never get enough satisfaction with the torture of the American people. In Too Much and Never Enough, by Dr. Mary Trump, we can infer that Donald, the 45^th president had always wanted to be first and the best other than Mary’s father Fred, which means that he was always in competition with him between his grandfather and whomever was a favorite of Donald’s grandfather. Donald grew up in a corrupt family where money, fortune, fame and favoritism was everything.

            We can infer that Donald Trump was a corrupt person because of his lack of experience in the field of politics. What the 45^th president seems to lack is a conscience in both the political field and in life noting that his wife had never wanted to hold his hand in any of the cameras on live television, and that there were so many people, mainly women, who set out against the 45^th president for inappropriate touching and molestation. We can reminisce about a time during the pandemic when the 45^th president had held a large rally of people without safety precautions against the pandemic for his campaign. Another incident would be the fourth of July party that Donald Trump Jr. held on a yacht with all his rich, fancy supporters during the pandemic that had killed millions of Americans both black, Caucasian and white. Donald Trump Jr. had never followed the rules of society including the rules for the safety of his supporters. In fact, he only got a vaccination quietly in January when doctors found out that he had covid-19.  

Following the insurrection, it is fear and doubt that lead the American people to storm Capitol Hill. As for the 45^th president’s quote for the Proud Boys, he told them specifically word for word to “stand by.” The Proud Boys were cowards; they were extremists who had picked on people who were left-wing, meaning that they were people of color also known as Black Americans, and possibly Latinos and other people of color. This is how we know that the 45^th president was a corrupt man who was not a leader, but a coward who stood behind his own supporters. Because of this habit he had struck fear and immorality using the gullibility of the people in the eyes of justice and showed us his true colors as a wonton sex fiend, coward and disgrace in the eyes of a democracy that was flailing under the 45^th president’s narcissism which is the right wing’s especially, QAnon’s way of dealing with the 45^th president by theorizing the president in the hopes that the fear and the shame will go away. 

Works Cited                                                                

            Stiegler, B. \\\”Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals: Disbelief and Discredit:

Volume II. Cambridge: Polity.\\\” (2012).