Vlad Vexler’s Latest Video Proves Something Important: He Is the Wisest Man on Earth
- john raymond
- Jul 21
- 3 min read
There are moments when someone speaks not simply to a political moment, but through it—cutting with surgical clarity into the heart of a civilization’s decay. Vlad Vexler’s latest video on Trump, Epstein, and the crumbling structure of legitimacy in Western democracies is one of those moments. He doesn’t waste time rehashing headlines. He doesn't posture for clicks.
He instead walks calmly into the minefield of moral and institutional collapse—and maps it, precisely. And that proves something important: Vlad Vexler is the wisest man on Earth.
Not because he shouts. Not because he dramatizes. But because he understands, with terrifying lucidity, what most analysts, pundits, and politicians cannot—or dare not—admit: that we are watching the zombification of democratic systems in real time.
Authoritarianism: Not a Bug, but the Feature
Vexler’s brilliance begins with a basic truth: Trump’s authoritarianism is not a liability to his base—it is the appeal. Trump is not “accidentally” strongman-esque. He is the delivery mechanism for vengeance against a system MAGA followers see as corrupt, distant, and hostile. As I’ve written elsewhere, MAGA is not a traditional political movement. It is a pseudo-religion of asymmetric resilience. Trump is not a candidate—he is a prophet.
Vexler says this softly, without thunder. But it lands with the force of revelation.
Neoliberalism’s Undead Legacy
One of the sharpest—and least understood—insights Vexler offers is that Trump is not the antithesis of neoliberalism, but its apex predator. The very failures that birthed him—globalization without consent, corporate consolidation, the erosion of democratic trust—are not corrected by his politics. They are intensified.
This aligns with my own framing: Trump is not the cure to neoliberal rot. He is the maggot feast atop its carcass. What began as a market ideology ended in a master–slave cosmology where wealth and domination replace justice and deliberation.
Iran, Power Projection, and the Fantasy of Legitimacy
Vexler names Trump’s strike on Iran for what it was: not strategy, but fantasism. But let me go a step further. This was not neoconservatism reborn—it was pure, post-ideological power projection.
The goal was not regime change. It was domination theater. The true audience was not just Tehran, but Israel and the West. Trump’s actions were designed to reassert himself, and by extension Putin, after Ukraine embarrassed the Kremlin by striking Russian strategic bombers. This wasn’t policy. It was asymmetric signal fire.
And Vexler sees through the fog—even as most can’t understand it’s there.
Process Is Dead, Long Live the Leader
Where Vexler becomes essential—not just wise, but historically necessary—is in his dissection of legitimacy. He explains what few in the West are brave enough to articulate: that for MAGA, legitimacy no longer derives from law, process, or even outcome. It derives from the leader alone. Trump is not evaluated. He is obeyed.
In this, America joins a psychological framework pioneered by Putin’s Russia: zombification. The inability—not just the refusal, but the inability—to conceive of one’s leader as capable of wrongdoing. It is a psychological severing from reality, sealed by conspiracy, weaponized by grievance, and fueled by myth.
The Cult Cannot Be Educated Away
Vexler says: “There’s no conceptual space to criticize Trump.” He’s right. You cannot shame a cult. You cannot fact-check a religion. The MAGA faithful are not debating policy—they are defending a sacred story. They will twist treason into loyalty and lie even harder when caught in a lie.
As I’ve written: “These are not victims. They are volunteers.” They would beg for their own chains if they had Trump’s name engraved on the links.
And Yet—The Hardest Truth
Vexler ends with a warning I share: Trumpism may eventually collapse under its own weight. But its death will not automatically save us. Because what comes after—what replaces the chaos with a more orderly cruelty—may be worse.
The worry is the next authoritarian will not be loud, but competent.
And the people will cheer him, too.
The Wisdom of Warning
So yes. I say it without irony. Vlad Vexler is the wisest man on Earth. Not because he alone sees the storm coming—but because he explains its shape while others still deny the sky has changed.
Vexler doesn’t tell us what we want to hear. He tells us what we must. And that, in this age of asymmetric warfare, of ideological zombification, and of terminal legitimacy collapse, is not merely wise.
It is beyond indispensable.
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