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Originally Posted by microbet
Surprising that you'd see it like that.
Anarchists actually see people as generally good, worthy, and capable. They see government and power as tending to be corrupt, oppressive and self-serving. And they like"good government" aka "buen gobierno". https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cara..._Buen_Gobierno
Trumpkins don't hate government, just the parts that help people because they hate people.
Giving big government liberals credit for what they say as opposed to what they do, they see people as worthy, but incapable. Hard to reconcile that with support for wars and mass incarceration and stuff like that. As long as someone in the right suit is making a calm argument, hey, maybe that bombing makes sense.
Don't think I was clear. "Good government" types are generally on the side of Hobbes, trying to make life a bit less nasty brutish and short. They also see human motives as corrupt and abuses of power as inevitable (political, economic, whatever). This is often curbed by boring policies and things like being legalistic and filling out forms in triplicate. Come up with a rule to meet every situation. See Scandinavia. Locke is an early exemplar, as is Madison.
Anarchists have more in common with libertarians and out-of-power conservatives, but with hate for those in power. They see individuals as heroes and, more or less, the author of their own destinies. Trump is a nice balance between an anarchist and a conservative, assuming one doesn't know too much about Trump, with enough tendency in each direction for either to justify supporting him. Intellectuals in this tradition, to one degree or another, would include Rosseau, Jefferson (to an extent), Nietzshe, Ayn Rand, and Foucault.
Would agree that the GOP and it's leaders have mainly been in the former camp, but Nixon, Goldwater, Reagan, GWB, and Trump had plenty of the ole Nietzschian/Randian will to power and let the chips fall where they may. Government should not support mass prosperity if it overly checks the ambition of great men.