00:00Bonjour à tous, nous sommes sur TV Liberté, nous recevons aujourd'hui Konstantin von
00:11Hofmeister, qui a écrit un livre, « Esotérique Trumpisme », et dont il va nous parler aujourd'hui.
00:17Hello Konstantin, can you introduce yourself to the French public who don't know you yet?
00:25Well, my name is Konstantin von Hofmeister, I'm the editor-in-chief at Arctos Publishing.
00:32Arctos is the preeminent English-language publisher of New Right and traditionalist literature.
00:40So we publish books by a variety of authors like Alain de Benoist, Guillaume Fay, the English
00:48translations, Alexander Dugin, also the English translations.
00:53We have original authors like Jason Trojani, he's very popular.
00:58So we focus on books that are relevant for the dissident right.
01:06Personally, I'm originally from Germany, but I lived half my life in the United States,
01:13Russia, India, Uzbekistan, and various other places.
01:18So I have a lot of experience traveling and interacting with other cultures, which pretty
01:24much formed my worldview.
01:27I worked as a journalist, both in India for English-language newspapers, and in the United
01:34States for various publications.
01:36I was a business trainer in Russia, in Moscow, where I lived for 12 years, where I also
01:43gained a lot of experience and established a lot of contacts.
01:47Now I'm back in Europe because of different circumstances, but I still travel extensively
01:54for networking purposes.
01:58So I would consider myself a poet, a writer, and a journalist.
02:04So I've written one book, Esoteric Trumpism, which we're going to discuss today.
02:09I've just finished a second book called Multipolarity, exclamation mark, which will be published
02:16next month, with a foreword by Alexander Dugin and Dr. Steve Turley.
02:21I also write regularly for Arctos Journal, which is our website on which we publish
02:29new articles on a daily basis.
02:31So I usually write about culture, history, and political matters from a, I would say,
02:38an avant-garde perspective.
02:40Okay, thank you.
02:44Why did you write this book, Esoteric Trump?
02:48This is an original and enigmatic title.
02:51Can you describe to us the particular angle of your book?
02:56Well, Esoteric Trumpism is a book that transcends standard political boundaries.
03:06I wrote this book, well, I came up with the idea of the book in 2023.
03:14I would say in the middle of 2023.
03:17I finished the book at the end of 2023, so it took me about half a year to write the book.
03:22It was published in January.
03:24I wrote this book because no such book exists, you know, because we have standard books about
03:29Trump and regular biographies or political discussions of his policies, but we don't
03:39have any books, or we didn't have any books of Trumpism as a phenomenon, yes.
03:46So my book is not so much focused on Trump the man, it is more focused on Trump as a
03:51symbol and Trumpism as a movement that gathers around the symbol, the symbol of renewal.
03:58And I look at this movement, which the person of Donald Trump engendered.
04:04I look at this movement through an esoteric lens.
04:07It means that I look at it from a non-superficial sense.
04:12I look at it from a philosophical perspective, also from a poetical perspective and from
04:17a deeply historical perspective, drawing comparisons to other historical personages and other historical
04:25movements that are still relevant today, movements that have implicitly influenced Trumpism.
04:33And also from a philosophical perspective, especially, I would say, Hegel and Heidegger.
04:38Heidegger with the idea of being Dasein and how it relates to Trump's populism.
04:48Same with Hegel when he talks about the world spirit and how it manifests itself in different
04:54nations in the world.
04:56You talk about Lovecraft too, it's very strange to me.
05:00But why?
05:01Well, because Lovecraft talked about the great old ones, the Thule myth, the great
05:07old ones that are bound to come back and rule over the earth again because they come from
05:15deep in the cosmos.
05:18And we have acolytes of Thule in the Lovecraft stories that basically worship the great
05:26old ones, these demonic cosmic entities, and they want them to come back.
05:33And the emphasis in Lovecraft's stories is always that humanity is completely insignificant
05:37and these creatures like Thule, they will come back and again, rule over our planet.
05:46And in the book, Esoteric Trumpism, I draw comparisons between the swamp and Thule and
05:56these evil entities, because basically Trump is fighting a sort of evil malignant force
06:06that cannot simply be put in political terms.
06:09I think this force is much older because it is basically a mythic battle that we witness
06:17today.
06:18We witness the battle between populism versus the establishment.
06:21And I think the establishment is the incarnation of some malignant force that we can witness
06:28all throughout human history that has always put the interests of very, very few individuals
06:36above the good of the whole.
06:39And I think Trumpism is another incarnation of the movement of the people that want to
06:47regain control of their own destiny and don't want to be ruled by demonic entities and maybe
06:54even destroyed by them.
06:56Okay, I understand.
07:00I have another question.
07:03You think that the election of Trump is a turning point in the history of the West.
07:08But why?
07:09Well, I think it's a turning point because I can see a paradigm shift, because a lot
07:15of things are happening at the same time right now.
07:19You have a lot of victories for the populist right in the West, not only in the United
07:25States with the victory of Donald Trump, but also in Western Europe.
07:30You have, for example, the AFD in Germany, which is becoming stronger and stronger.
07:34It's now the second most popular party in the country.
07:37It is the most popular party in certain regions in East Germany, like the state of Thuringia,
07:43where the majority of people elected the AFD.
07:47You see it in France, in your country, of course, with Marine Le Pen.
07:51I think if you had presidential elections today, I think she would become the president
07:57of France for sure.
07:59And what you saw in Romania, where basically a Trumpist-like candidate was about to win
08:05the presidential election.
08:07And then, of course, the deep state, basically the Lovecraftian entities, they stole the
08:14election in Romania.
08:17This shows us that the deep state, not just in the United States, but globally, is very
08:22afraid of this populist movement, the movement of the people to take back the reins of their
08:28destiny.
08:29And I think Trump as a symbol and Trumpism as a movement has a sort of trigger effect,
08:34because a lot of people in the West, especially in Western Europe, are looking towards the
08:40United States of America, because whether you like it or not, the United States of
08:44America is still the undisputed leader of the West.
08:48So usually what happens in America sooner or later will also happen in Western Europe.
08:54So if you have a sort of populist revolution like you have now in the United States, I
08:59think this will also affect the populist movements in Europe in a positive way, because
09:04a lot of people are being influenced by this sort of energy that the Trump movement exudes.
09:11OK, I understand.
09:14You said that Trump is magical.
09:17Can you explain to us how he's magical?
09:21Well, I would say he's magical in the sense that he has a sort of magnetism, like a magnetic
09:29aura.
09:30So a lot of people almost worship him as a sort of messiah, as a new messiah, meaning
09:38a figure that brings light back into the world.
09:43In my opinion, again, we shouldn't focus so much on Trump as a person, because I think
09:48we're overestimating him, because I think as a person, he's not a messiah, obviously.
09:56But we have to look beyond the human incarnation that Trump is and look at the symbolism that
10:03he represents, because what he represents is a turning point in the West.
10:08I think because you already mentioned Oswald Spengler, because as Oswald Spengler said,
10:13we are already in the decline phase of Western civilization, in the Faustian stage.
10:19And I think Trump represents a Caesar-like figure, because Oswald Spengler writes in
10:26The Decline of the West that during the decline stage of Western civilization, a lot of strong
10:33men will appear that will try to stop the decline for a certain period of time.
10:41And I think we can see figures like this rising all over the West.
10:45We have Putin in Russia, for example.
10:48We have Viktor Orban.
10:50We have Ceausescu in Romania.
10:52And of course, we have Donald Trump in the United States.
10:54I think these people are the Caesars, especially Trump, because the United States is an imperial
11:02structure.
11:03Therefore, we could consider Trump a Caesar-like figure, while in Western Europe, we don't
11:08have any imperial structure.
11:10We have basically weak nation states.
11:12In reality, we only have two empires in the West.
11:14We have Russia and the United States.
11:17And in my opinion, a Trumpist America is a natural ally of a Putinist Russia, because
11:24both Russia under Putin and America under Trump share the same values.
11:32And I would say they're even the same people, say the average Russian and the red state
11:37Republican American.
11:38Well, you should read my book if you want to learn about the philosophical, the cultural
11:47and mystical background of Trumpism.
11:53And if you want to find out why the symbol, the radiating pro-European symbol that Trump
12:04represents is now guiding all pro-patriotic forces in the West towards a united victory
12:17over the nefarious forces of globalism, and why Trump as the guiding light of the anti-globalist
12:26movement all over the world will help usher in a multipolar world.
12:34Because I think that Donald Trump and what he started will basically disentangle the
12:43United States from, will start disentangling the United States from imperialist ambitions
12:51all over the world, and hopefully revert back to a more isolationist mode, thereby making
13:00America one pole among other civilizational poles in the world, according to the multipolar
13:08theory that certain people like the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin propagate.
13:14Thank you very much, Constantin, for this interview.
13:18Did you have one last word to our subscribers?
13:20Well, yeah, one last word.
13:23If you want to keep up-to-date with geopolitical and cultural developments from an unusual
13:36and avant-garde perspective, I recommend checking out my sub-stack, EuroSiberia.net, and also
13:46ArctosJournal.com, where you can read new articles, new analyses daily about the changing
13:58paradigm and the coming victory that we all anticipate.
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