The Answer to Trump is Revolutionary Love

Analysis of what “the shrieking migraine of Trumpism” reveals about our socioeconomic system: capitalism and authoritarianism “gel very well” – not capitalism and democracy; and the loudly-touted opposition between class and identity politics is encouraged, to distract from the reality that people’s needs and freedoms are so often a hindrance to the system’s central goal of making money “for those at the top”. What we need instead is “a lovely new economic system, one that is centred around the things that actually matter: our health, knowing that we are cared for, being close to the ones we love, knowing that we are safe, and that we have the freedom to express ourselves in all our glittering abundance,” which “requires taking love from the realm of the personal into the political.” The first step: “refuse to buy into the politics of hate and fear that the Trumps of the world are selling”, then “open our eyes to the politics of love and care already being practiced all around us, and join in where we can.”