The Trumpist story has a touch of perversion, in addition to deforming visible reality and historical evidence.
It is perverse to use the word “liberation” to refer to the day in which Donald Trump He raised a tariff wall. The global wave of uncertainty and fear that generated by kicking the world trade board made the vile way of deforming the obvious to call “day of liberation” to April 2, because that is when he announced the imposition of the global tariff.
That measure is a blow to globalization and puts the world to the edge of a recession, so it is understood that such risks relegate what seems an irrelevant data. However, it is not an irrelevant fact but significant and revealing.
The concept that, for example, should be called the approval of the thirteenth amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865, is used to call the day when Trump destroyed with a tariff bombard Second World War until he stamped his long and ampulose signature with black fiber in the presidential decree.
The touch of perversion of the nominal phrase is in sight if it is taken into account that “day of liberation” is what was called May 8, 1945, because it was when he capitulated the third Reich. That day the crematorium ovens of the concentration camps were turned off and the regime that occupied half Europe and cruelly exterminated millions of people was disintegrated.
Liberation day evokes the closure of Auschwitz-Birkenou, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Dachau, Buchenwald and other sinister spaces where absolute evil prevailed. That is, the end of the industrialization of murder.
Using the grammatical prayer that he called at the moment when the genocide committed by Hitler was arrested is a banalization of suffering that shows ignorance and superficiality. And that is not an anecdotal but fundamental feature. An ideological and human identity feature.
Perhaps the mass marches flooding the streets of Boston, Chicago, Manhattan and other large American cities make alarms sound in the White House. It is likely that the world choir of voices repeating phrases such as “chaos in the markets” and “danger of world recession” have some echo in the oval office.
If so, the ultra -conservative government would try to quickly pass the imposition of tariffs on bilateral free trade treaties, to minimize the negative impact it has on the markets.
In rigor, to tariff reciprocity had to apply it backwards: first propose case -free trade case, and apply high tariffs only to countries that reject that proposal. So it was el Alca In the nineties. The Chavista gravitation made that attempt at continental free trade that today would probably hug the same leaders who then rejected it, if the alternative is the tariff wall that Trump raised.
Now, although it is true that Latin American countries tariff imports that came from the power that received their products with lower tariffs, the Trumpist story leaves aside a fundamental aspect: the terms of the exchange between finished products and raw materials incline the balance in favor of the American superpower.
The Trumpist story deforms visible reality. He proclaims his tariff bombing against globalization out loud so that he is recorded in history, as if the United States had been in the last century an abused country, plundered and subjected by the rest of the world and, particularly, by northwestern democracies that have been its main allies and largest commercial partners.
Trump’s argument incurs the absurd because it seems to describe a country exploited by all other countries, especially their allies in the two world wars and the east-west confrontation. According to Trump, Europeans, Canadians, Japanese and South Koreans, in addition to Chinese and so many others, their wealth suggested as bleeding until it was languishing. A description denied by common sense and obvious reality.
In the period during which, according to the Trumpist story, the United States was scammed and vampirized by the swarm of rascals that make up the international community, especially the “parasites” that make up the northwestern block, the reality shows that the opposite happened: it reached the range of world superpower, in addition to win The most opulent society on the planet.
Calling how he made the launch of his tariff war, deform and banalize communist totalitarianism by cataloging the Democratic governments, and also deforms and banalizes the greatest extermination war in history.
It is likely that the new economic order promoted Trump with its tariffs cause chaos in the markets and global recession, without achieving the strengthening of the US economy promised by the ultraconservative leader. His tariff policy has an antecedent: President William McKinley implemented a protectionism similar at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Their results were good in the short term, but the contraindications appeared in the medium term and prevailed, although their driver could not see them because he was killed in 1901.
Trump also admires McKinley because Hawaii annexed and occupied Guam and Puerto Rico in the war against Spain, inspired by James PolkAntexor who attached Texas, California, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado parts, and bought Oregon from the English.
The obvious thing is that the nominal phrase chosen for this world earthquake is a sample of superficiality that also predicts a change of political system.
The new economic and geopolitical order requires Trump to eternalize in power, despite the amendment that prohibits it. Ergo depends on the fact that American democracy becomes an autocracy.
If that happens, the hope of liberal democracy will be that the future imposes another “day of liberation”: the one that marks the end of the Trump era.
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