There's a misdiagnosis of Trump and the behavior of the neoreactionary right, generally. I've seen him and MAGA called the Id of America, and it makes me grit my teeth. They're not the Id, they're America functioning as it was created to. There's nothing that is unpredictable about the neoreactionary playbook insofar as it's a new form of the same American imperial flows. Trump getting as much grift as he can from Middle-East and other states is precisely out of that playbook. If anything, Trump is the Ego of America, following his flitting, low-attention span desires to whatever will gratify him and grant him the greatest control in rational accordance with the channels for those desires American capitalism has provided. Anytime someone refers to him as the Id, they're trying to protect American Hegemony as they think it should exist, as some fictional source of benevolence. It never was!
