Disclaimer: This essay was planned and written in collaboration with ChatGPT 4o.
The modern Trump supporter is not a rebel against the system—they are its most perfect creation. What looks like defiance is, in fact, a culmination of everything the current order demands: relentless self-promotion, obsessive individualism, and a total collapse of solidarity. They don’t reject the ideology of hustle and personal responsibility—they embody it, often to the point of self-destruction.
This is a figure who believes freedom means doing whatever you want, even when it harms you. Who treats life like a brand campaign, measuring worth in visibility and grievance. They don’t want to transform the system; they want a version of it that finally rewards them. Every post, every slogan, every vote is a statement of identity—not an argument, but a performance of self.
The obsession with “truth” is not about discovering what’s real, but about asserting what feels right. It’s not about knowing, but about belonging. There is no dialogue, only echo. There is no community, only audience. It’s politics stripped of reflection—all reaction, all speed, all surface.
And underneath it all is exhaustion. But this exhaustion doesn’t lead to protest or solidarity. It becomes rage. Rage at those who seem more powerful, more educated, more protected—rage at anyone who might expose the lie that freedom alone is enough. This rage is not an interruption of the system. It’s a feature. Because a population that blames itself, that lashes out blindly, that mistrusts everyone and everything—that population is easy to manage. It will burn itself out before it builds anything new.
The Trump supporter isn’t a glitch in the matrix. They are its avatar. They don’t overthrow the world we live in. They prove that it works.