By Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA (20160208-DSC08139) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.Ivanka Trump has thus told us the complete truth about her father’s agenda, for she has laid out a clear case for corporate totalitarianism as liberal democracy in America. It is indeed neither conservative nor liberal, neither Republican nor Democrat, but (to be sure) it is a thoroughly millennial vision of the future, Trump Tower rising above the postindustrial wasteland of Hell’s Kitchen, ‘something beautiful’ carved ‘out of its ugliness,’ setting ‘free its potential.’ The question for voters is whether they will let this corporate merger buy them out from democracy in November; indeed, the other question is whether the other party can offer a vision as compelling as this attractive totalitarianism. Agamben’s aporia is upon us indeed.
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