Not quite totalitarianism, not quite democracy, let’s call it brain dead Bonapartism.
June 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Not quite totalitarianism, not quite democracy, let’s call it brain dead Bonapartism.
radical Trumpism as explicit Bonapartism
February 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
radical Trumpism as explicit Bonapartism
typical anti-intellectual running cover for Bonapartism
January 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
typical anti-intellectual running cover for Bonapartism
Guy who insists on a really strict delineation between "Caesarism" and "Bonapartism"
April 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Guy who insists on a really strict delineation between "Caesarism" and "Bonapartism"
fascism is a Pokemon evolution from bonapartism
Good news everyone! We're now using the correct term for the phenomena that we're doing fuck all to stop!
July 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
fascism is a Pokemon evolution from bonapartism
bone spur bonapartism
Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed?
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
February 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
bone spur bonapartism
like no, we're not geting 19th century bonapartism or one the various strains of 20th century strong-manism, we're getting straight up Rule Without Parliaments Royalism
May 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
like no, we're not geting 19th century bonapartism or one the various strains of 20th century strong-manism, we're getting straight up Rule Without Parliaments Royalism
Congratulations USA, you have just ended your second (post civil war) republic. Enjoy Bonapartism.
August 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Congratulations USA, you have just ended your second (post civil war) republic. Enjoy Bonapartism.
It's not new. It's called Bonapartism.
these people are putting forth a novel system in which elections move imbue the president with the entire sovereign authority of the people, who can then act as an elected despot, unbound by any other authority
April 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It's not new. It's called Bonapartism.
Meanwhile, 'conservative' just means 'Trump supporter' now, and denotes something much closer to Bonapartism or Peronism than things normally considered 'conservative'.
January 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Meanwhile, 'conservative' just means 'Trump supporter' now, and denotes something much closer to Bonapartism or Peronism than things normally considered 'conservative'.
That is what the mid 19th century meant by bonapartism or caesarism
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
That is what the mid 19th century meant by bonapartism or caesarism
towards a chassidishe bonapartism
April 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
towards a chassidishe bonapartism
I feel like PMC Bonapartism is the ideological endpoint for most posters here.
May 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I feel like PMC Bonapartism is the ideological endpoint for most posters here.
Bonapartism, particularly as Napoleon III conceptualized it. The people appoint their agent to act on their behalf then he rules unconstrained, for the people.
August 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Bonapartism, particularly as Napoleon III conceptualized it. The people appoint their agent to act on their behalf then he rules unconstrained, for the people.
"No no it's not fascism, it is merely Bonapartism"
Okay so this isn't exactly part of my vernacular but I believe the only proper response here is *jerkoff motion,* yeah??
Okay so this isn't exactly part of my vernacular but I believe the only proper response here is *jerkoff motion,* yeah??
July 23, 2026 at 10:47 PM
"No no it's not fascism, it is merely Bonapartism"
Okay so this isn't exactly part of my vernacular but I believe the only proper response here is *jerkoff motion,* yeah??
Okay so this isn't exactly part of my vernacular but I believe the only proper response here is *jerkoff motion,* yeah??
The French Revolution indirectly led us to fascism lmao (in the form of Bonapartism)
June 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
The French Revolution indirectly led us to fascism lmao (in the form of Bonapartism)
It's really just a reinvented Bonapartism, especially in its Napoleon III variant.
January 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
It's really just a reinvented Bonapartism, especially in its Napoleon III variant.
I feel obligated to post my award-winning high school paper about Bonapartism and fascism
"Their Cards Up His Sleeve" — Abraham Josephine Riesman // Writer
josie.zone
January 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I feel obligated to post my award-winning high school paper about Bonapartism and fascism
Francoism was not defeated by Bonapartism. Pinochet was not defeated by Bonapartism.
March 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Francoism was not defeated by Bonapartism. Pinochet was not defeated by Bonapartism.
This is actually Bonapartism you’re seizing your own crown and profaning the revolution smdh
September 30, 2026 at 9:53 AM
This is actually Bonapartism you’re seizing your own crown and profaning the revolution smdh
The extra-sucky super-loser form of Bonapartism exists and is called Orangism.
as historical parallels go you can do a lot worse than comparison of Trump to Napoleon (the first one), minus the genius or the winning of course
The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.
April 20, 2026 at 2:04 AM
The extra-sucky super-loser form of Bonapartism exists and is called Orangism.
Bonapartism works on that level too
Having read about Trump's ballroom, the enrichment of his family, Melania presiding the Security Council -
makes it a special experience to study the vainness and greed of the Bonaparte family
makes it a special experience to study the vainness and greed of the Bonaparte family
March 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Bonapartism works on that level too
Also, calling it Bonapartism, without specifying that we're talking about Louis Napolean instead of Napolean, the original recipe, is more designed to confuse than enlighten.
July 23, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Also, calling it Bonapartism, without specifying that we're talking about Louis Napolean instead of Napolean, the original recipe, is more designed to confuse than enlighten.