{"id":527794,"date":"2025-05-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=527794"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:20:45","slug":"trumpism-wokism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/policy\/trumpism-wokism\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpism and wokism, seven similarities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump supporters and wokes seem like sworn enemies. Yet their respective attitudes to debate, institutions and society reveal striking similarities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

At first glance, everything pits Donald Trump and his die-hard supporters against intersectional activists and gender and race theorists. Trump's followers are willingly conservative, nationalistic and populist. Wokes, obsessed with \u00abstructural\u00bb discrimination, claim to be progressive and cosmopolitan. Yet Trumpism and wokism are far more similar than they pretend or appear: both are part of the same contemporary illiberal impulse, as these seven points in common demonstrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Disregard for rational debate<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Wokes like Trumpists don't seek truth, they seek power. In the previous editorial by yours truly<\/a>, the parallel trends of \u00abreason without debate\u00bb (political correctness, favored by the Wokes) and \u00abdebate without reason\u00bb (political incorrectness, favored by the Trumpists) were discussed. The former lapse into dogmatism in the name of reason (which they forget to practice within a framework of debate); the latter, in the name of debate (which they forget to place under the sign of reason).<\/p>\n\n\n\n