Trump opened a space the left tried and failed to open

01:12:55 — Trump opened a space the left tried and failed to open

A difficult but characteristic concession: Trump, Žižek grants, has done what the left tried and failed to do — disrupted global capitalism as we knew it and opened the space for a totally new game. Whether that opening is an opportunity or a trap depends on who moves into it, and Žižek notes that other states are already positioning themselves around what emerges. Note: the Whisper transcript is corrupted across this window, and the formulation stays close to the surviving fragments.