Let us at least admit, then, that he made the 2016 election a genuine democratic choice—a decisive referendum on accelerationism. Clinton was the candidate of stasis,. Like Jeb Bush or a new Fantastic Four movie she was the revival of a brand nobody was particularly nostalgic for. She offered nothing other than the continuation of present circumstances with all their sense of imminent eschatology. And his sheer destructive potential offered a credible alternative to this. A vote for him was at least a vote for climax.
