In section 72, we get an expansion of Nietzsche’s concept of nihilism from being without a goal (telos) to being the essential occurrence of the abandonment by being, aka machination, lived experience, and liberalism. Two “oppositional forms of nihilism” are discussed – Christianity and Bolshevism – whose “denial of a lack of goals” gives birth to lots of goals that are merely the “means for the erection and pursuit of goals,” such as making cultural assets equally available to “the people.” We then map this distinction directly onto Republicans and Democrats before Trump, indicating again that liberalism activated both sides of the aisle prior to MAGA.