Admittedly Antifa were always outside the liberal circle of friendly competition. But this is not the Trumpian perception. Due to devil shift, Antifa are perceived as an extension of the Democrats, the same way the other side sees Charlottesville rioters as an extension of Trump.

All it means is that it is an authentically Perennialist work that has ideas pertinent to politics. Perennialism is not internally homogenous, and there is likely more dissensus on political questions than any other (likely, in part, because the school has been so reluctant to deal with the issue).

For the thousands of years prior to the Qin (recognized by Confucius as China's golden age) China had a feudal aristocracy much like medieval Europe.

The mandarinate was guided by metaphysical principles and a devotion the Heaven above even the emperor - something totally absent in Xi's China. What is more, the mandarinate barely existed prior to the Tang dynasty, and didn't exist at all before the Qin dynasty.