Neiman, Trump and 'woke': incoherence as a bestseller

Susan Neiman, the philosopher who sells antiestéticar on every front

Susan Neiman, a philosopher with triple nationality (German, American and Israeli), is back in the news after claiming that Donald Trump has ended democracy in the United States. A year ago she surprised everyone by declaring that the left is not proge, and now she adds a new episode of alarmism. Her critics are clear: this is the antiestéticar industry in its purest form.

Armchair anti-proge

The paradox is served. Neiman criticizes wokism for generating tribalism and victimhood, yet she does not budge an inch from the pogre creed of the nineties: open borders, mandatory diversity and Trump as the universal enemy. Anyone who lives off preaching against the system while drawing a salary from it, says the harshest camp, is not doing critique: they are rebranding. They call it the "double con": anti-proge to sound deep, faithful to the script so as not to lose the chair.

The antiestéticar industry

The second reproach is even more uncomfortable. Comparing every election with 1930s Germany and repeating that "we face the same danger or worse" is the perfect fuel to keep the headlines flowing. Moreover, sarracena panic demonizes the average voter, the one losing purchasing power while being called privileged, and pushes them to vote for anyone who promises to burn the whole thing down. In other words, the remedy feeds the disease.

The anecdote of the three passports rounds off the picture: fascism is always to the east or the south, never at home. If there were no Trump, he would have to be invented. Coherence, at this point, is the least of it.