The Qanon Right
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
A conservative movement is taking place in North America that escapes the structures of social control that the Republican right represents. It has happened in the past, businessman Ross Perot managed to accumulate broad sympathies from Americans who observed the decomposition of the public apparatus and represents one of the outsiders who advanced the furthest in the political system. Now, Donald Trump, who has been successful in reaching the White House and overcoming the Republican Party, is trying a second part in the history of American civilism.
For a long time, American public opinion has seen the difference between Republicans and Democrats as the same as that between Pepsi and Cocacola. The group that supports Donald Trump is diverse but focuses on questioning and rejecting the hegemony of a public apparatus that is limiting freedoms, security and order in North America. Trump is above the Republicans and some of them have decided to support Kamala Harris and the status quo of the ruling elites.
Despite everything, the semi-sovereign people of North America react. Polls come and go, no advantage is clearly defined and no one has a decisive scenario. Why is Donald Trump recovering in the polls and overcoming the minimum advantage? The Qanon Movement, studied as a phenomenon of North American conservatism among the extreme and alternative right, represents not only the silent WASP majorities but also social criticism of the bureaucracy of the federal government and the corruption of the White House; even the longing for peace in the face of the geopolitical deterioration that the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have caused.
The Qanon narrative involves questioning various issues of political manipulation that distinguish the US government at home and beyond its borders. The Internet and various media have brought together social groups of the most diverse nature in Qanon. It is not only the unity against the de-wasapization that the Democrats represent but also the criticism against the failure of neoliberal and globalizing democratic politics. Qanon is a social revolution that transcends traditional media and government institutions of social control.
If there is a silent majority waging a synthetic war against the nodes of classical American political power, it is on the side of Donald Trump and is represented by Qanon. An amalgam of various right-wing and conservatisms, aristocracies and nativisms, identities and nationalisms, Christianities and singular devotions, scientists, doctors and social leaders who reject the costs of American imperialism. The American election also represents a consultation on the state of the world.
It is true that Qanon may be influenced by some American plutocracy harmed by the globalizing process; however, the global conservative wave has focused on questioning the damage that neoliberal globalization executes against humanity; democracy cannot be cohesive with neoliberalism in a dogmatic and uncritical way. The crisis of liberal democracy and the mental loss of political leaders who submit to the globalist plutocracy generate collective actions such as Qanon that have unforeseen effects.
Emmanuel Todd exposes the bewilderment of liberal democracy, Europeanism and globalization in the face of geopolitical chaos; they do not understand that they do not understand. The Biden administration missed the opportunity to reconcile the United States and the world; on the contrary, it blindly justified the sociopolitical path that causes so much damage to the various civilizations. Therefore, Trump and Qanon advance, the silent majority that seeks American regeneration prepares itself against the rebellion of the elites.