Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan captivated his countrymen, who mostly felt fed up with the existential pessimism of then President Jimmy Carter, assuring them that the United States would soon enjoy a “new dawn.” On Monday, in very similar circumstances, Donald Trump began his second management promising them even more. He said that a “golden era” had already begun in which the United States would become more prosperous, more respected and, of course, much more powerful than any other nation in human history.
As Reagan at the time, Trump stressed the difference between his own vision of the present and future of the United States with that of his immediate predecessor, Joe Biden, who, sitting a few meters from whom he had just replaced him, had to endure a barrage of abuse. According to Trump, Biden and those who had accompanied him are corrupt and incompetent subjects who betrayed his country “horribly”.
So and everything, he told them that he would not submit them to a Lawfare campaign like the one they fought in a desperate attempt to prevent him from recovering the presidency. Distrustful, hours before leaving, Biden signed countless presidential forgives for the benefit of family members, officials and friends who in his opinion were in danger of falling victims of Trump’s thirst for revenge.
In the United States, it is common for Democrats and Republicans to alternate in power, but it is not that the differences between the two groups are as striking as they have been from the arrival of Trump to the White House in January 2017. Since then , the transformation of the Democratic Party has been consolidated into a coalition dominated by the products of elite universities and representatives of “minorities” prone to victimize, while the Republican embraced the cause of middle class people and workers harmed by deindustrialization whose Purchase power has barely increased in recent decades. To achieve its support, Trump has promised to repatriate the jobs that were exported to China and throw millions of illegal immigrants who, among other things, have contributed to depressing the income of the non -qualified American workers.
It does not miss, then, that this time the transition from one government to another has completed so grudgingly. Trump is the most notorious protagonist of the “cultural war” who is freeing, in one way or another, in virtually all the countries of the world, but who has his epicenter in the United States where the Biden government did not hesitate to treat opposites to his gender policy as terrorists, he let a multitude of illegal immigrants enter and promoted “positive” racial discrimination against the population of European origin.
Here is a reason why the second coming of the real estate entrepreneur and TV star has been so disruptive not only in his own country but also in the rest of the planet. Today, the alleged merits of the different socioeconomic models or international strategies, issues that until recently served to differentiate the parties, that the gap that has opened between the worldview of the “elites” metropolitan intellectuals and that of those who repudiate it.
Unfortunately for supporters of such “elites”, to the White Americans, who still constitute the majority, do not like to be accused of being congenitally racist who should pass an eternity in Purgatory because of the sins attributed to their ancestors. As soon as he reassured presidential power, Trump repealed a series of Woke standards that Biden had imposed, decree , would work to forge a meritocratic society in which the color of the skin would not matter.
The movement that Trump heads is not a creation of his but one that, until he chose to try his luck in the agitated political world, did not have a leader capable of agglutinating him. To the astonishment of those who believed him a fake, it turned out that the “orange man”, helped by almost autistic narcissism that is his own, would know better than anyone else to interpret what was already happening in the United States without many to pay attention to him. Unlike conventional politicians that are influenced by the ideas that predominate in the fields that frequent, Trump remains an outsider. It is what has in common with Javier Milei.
However, although for almost ten years Trump is one of the best known and most mad characters of the international political cast, for his many adversaries it remains an enigma, a kind of extraterrestrial of authoritarian instincts that raises a very serious threat to democracy in democracy in United States and therefore in the rest of the world. While some pray for the nightmare Imagined by those who have just given power to the man who hates the most.
Bad that many weigh, what is represented by Trump will not disappear when his mandate ends, either for health reasons – he is 78 years old -, or because the current American Constitution does not allow him that the so -called progressivism has failed in North America and Europe is mainly due to the nothing equal form in which all economies have been evolving, including the backward who, increasingly, tend to privilege sectors already accommodated at the expense of the most.
Everywhere, those who believe they are unfairly lagging are rebelling against the status quo, hence the rise of Trump and leaders denied by “right -wing” in Europe. While Trump is a relatively rich tycoon who has never been poor, he shares the hostility towards “the caste” of the bulk of his compatriots who considers her responsible for a situation that is being unsustainable in societies of democratic claims.
Although at first glance it seems arbitrary to link the economic order prevailing with cultural conflicts around gender issues or ethnic group rights, they are interconnected because the most benefited by the technological revolution that is underway seeks to justify their good fortune with allusions to its alleged moral superiority. They do it by adopting a speech that according to some is from the left, in order not to say almost Marxist, that they use to defend a social reality that could be described as rightist in which a relatively accommodated minority behaves as a kind of aristocracy that wants to move away from “ deplorable ”of common people.
While Trump claims to restore some respect for what he says is common sense after four years of foolishness progressing what issues linked to transsexuality, the supposedly inextirpable racist prejudices of all whites and crimes committed by generations already of Americans who dominated the official discourse and affecting many measures that were taken by the Biden government, those committed to the old order that their successor has already begun to tear accuse it of wanting to establish an ultra -rightist dictatorship.
They do not lack pretexts; On one occasion, Trump said he would like to be “dictator for a day” and there is no doubt that he would like to punish those who submitted him to a Lawfare campaign with the purpose of sinking him. On the eve of his departure, Biden, sore by the decision of the fabulously wealthy owners of the technological giants of collaborating with Trump, warned that he was forming a plutocratic oligarchy that “threatens our democracy.” You will be right, but those who call Trump of “fascist” and see in him an American version of Adolf Hitler, attributing ideals that are radically oblivious.
It goes without saying that, in a period as confusing as the current one in which the feeling that the world has lost its course has been disseminated, the hunger for certainties is very intense, which is why the repudiation of the global status quo and the revaluation of Collective identities, especially nationals, which serve to cohesive the different communities, are becoming stronger in both in the United States and in the different countries of Europe.
Trump looks like a great peacemaker who, thanks to the military and financial power of his country, will be able to end the wars that are causing so much suffering in Ukraine, the Middle East and other regions. In his opinion, almost all are due to Biden pusillanimity that was not respected by the enemies of Western civilization. This is something that Trump intends to change; It is expected that it soon order the Russian, Chinese and Islamist “autocrats” to stop causing problems. Although they are unlikely to obey, talking from a position of strength could produce better results than the strategy tested by its hesitant Democratic precursor.
