In Trump’s fantasy politics, he can accomplish anything – but reality will prevail | Andy Beckett
WIt is exactly, is the new head of Donald Trump very high? So far, the explanations have tended to focus on their jaws, contempt of political agreements and the flagrant sabotage of one of the most powerful democracy in the world.
But all of these elements were also present in his first presidency. Meanwhile, other features of both terms, such as worshiping his personality, Screen ram of immigrants And the accusation that the liberal elites caused a national decline, which are a record practice of the hard right powerful, and it was at least for a century.
However, people are still baffling and mistaken, both the most neutral opponents and observers, political professionals, voters, Americans and foreigners. There is an unlimited reason for this. Trump’s presidency, especially his second term, is a very contradictory project. In some respects, it is an epic political imagination, and he promised to dream of every dream from the United States and the patriots to fulfill quickly. But in other ways, it is a frightening storming of reality-in the image full of flowers, many liberals still have how America works and how America is related to the rest of the world.
The main assumption of Trump’s imagination is that in his remaining four -year term, which will enter during his eighties, despite the sharp social divisions of the United States and his buffet is inevitable through global crises, he can accomplish almost anything. He said in his opening: “I stand in front of you now, as evidence that you should not believe that there is something impossible … We are on the verge of the greatest four years in American history.”
Other elements of Trump’s imagination include the belief that the United States can mainly ignore the climate crisis; It can impose a large tariff on imports Without causing increases in their prices; Trump’s personal interventions can end quickly and permanently long conflicts such as Gaza; And that its ongoing lies, exaggeration and inventions can create new facts, whether it reshapes the current history and permanently rewrites history. In short, The Trump Fantasy is that in an anti -politics era, his trademark can be solved from politics everything.
However, at the same time, the opening days of its second chapter revealed facts about the United States, which was previously hidden. Her alliance with Western Europe is not permanent. The power of an empire is still in the traditional sense, with regional ambitions. Many American companies are pleased to have an authoritarian government, as long as they are good for profits. “The greatest civilization in history,” as Trump described his country in the opening, is in fact a national and brutal national place – at least for the great extensions – instead of the benign society mainly and believes in many liberals. Trump’s unarmed presidency has taken to clarify this in the end.
It is still more confused for those who do not support it, and sometimes the fairy tamp threads and reality are intertwined. His strong support for men and Stop the policies of the supporter of diversityFor example, partially from the product of imagination – that from his reign, the dominance of straight males can be restored as it was decades ago – however it is also a reminder that it is in the United States, as in other democracies, conservative men remain a strong and powerful power.
Likewise, Trump’s climate policies – whatever they seem to be increasing in his country because of the harsh weather – are also a recognition that any serious response to the United States to the crisis will require its richer and donor voters to make radical changes in lifestyle. If the planet and the Patriarchate are in trouble, where many supporters of Trump may accept, deeply, like anyone else, there is an argument, despite selfishness, to enjoy all the intensive carbon privileges of traditional American masculinity while you cannot. Thanks to his love for burgers, golden surfaces, and thirsty golf courses and multiple homes, Trump’s life is constantly exposed to this type of heavy consumption of resources. In a world that is increasingly chased by scarcity, while weakening supply chains due to wars, weather and epidemic, its surplus is a raw but strong statement.
In the face of this mixture of denying reality and self -interests, how can those who oppose Trump at home and abroad, or who run the governments with which you will coexist, can restore their political composure? One of the ways may be waiting for him to lose his madness from the executive orders, a process, which is a process that may have already started with He ordered the freezing of federal scholarships to reflect it this week. Even some Trump voters will sooner or later be aware that the issuance of decrees from Washington and the end of “the retreat of America”, as it is considered, not the same.
Another useful approach may be to understand the gravity of many Trump’s fantasy voters, but also inappropriate. Despite Trump’s allegations and reliable media as a unique American leader, the country has a modern tradition from Republican presidents who make unreasonable promises. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan said he would make America safe again, with an unprecedented presence The “Star Wars” system anti -MisteenAnd in the first decade of the twentieth century, George W. Bush pledged to do the same by invading Iraq. Both projects were disasters. The Iraq war also affected the United States’ allies, especially Britain, in part because the government of Tony Blair saw the Iraqi Bush’s confirmation as very strong. Fmese, Kiir Starmer and Trump already tells us how much quality they get.
Any other Republican people only seduce accepting that this is the Trump era that may be useful to the numbers behind his support. Last year, unlike 2016, he won the popular vote, But only 1.5 percentage points. However, both the supportive and anti -Trump forces act as if he had a tremendous mandate that resistance is useless. The majority of his party in the Senate and the House of Representatives as well. If his hopes are disappointed only by a small part of his supporters, it is not permissible for any of the majority to survive in the mid -term elections.
Trump may seem stunning now. However, soon it will be another abnormal, in a world hostile to money. The problem, then, for those who do not support it, will not be his dominance on the speech, which may slip, but the amount of the American state it controls.
