White Supremacy? Moral Supremacy?

 

White Supremacy? Moral Supremacy?

Peter Schultz

 

                  Commonly and correctly, Donald Trump is seen as a white supremacist. But he should also be seen as a moral supremacist. That is, as someone who sees that America and Americans – as he defines them – are morally superior to other nations and other humans. Democrats often fail to take sufficient notice of this.

 

                  But even if they did, they couldn’t take Trump on because they too are moral supremacists. And because a critique of moral supremacy requires a critique of America’s traditional values, like empire, capitalism, and “Waspishness,” as well as a critique of morality generally, the Democrats are unable to oppose Trump at his core. And so no Democratic critique of Trump’s signature mantra, “Make America Great Again,” has been heard.

 

                  Put differently, Democrats and Republicans share the view of America as victim and as exceptional, of America as being victimized because it is morally superior. This is the crux of Bush’s answer to the question, “Why do they hate us?” Because we Americans are morally superior.

 

                  So long as our elites share these convictions, just so long will the empire be secure, and just as long will the righteous savagery continue because colonization disguised as pacification is murderous work. So, whoever is president, “his or her job will be to preserve the myth of America as altruistic liberator …. [while] the terrible truth is that a Cult of Death rules America … hell-bent on world domination.” [Valentine, The CIA as Organized Crime, 378]