Donald Trump, beware – this is what a global liberal fightback looks like | Timothy Garton Ash
toIberals from all countries, unite! Just as the liberal anti -West forces have ever became stronger than ever, the United States has joined the attack on everything we offer. Against this elaborate attack by the anti -liberal nationalists, we need a specific fight for liberal internationals. Canada elections this week A strong attached brigade can contribute.
One of the basic ideas of liberalism is that if people will live together well in the conditions of freedom, then power or interrogation should always be dispersed and controlled. In the face of confirmation of raw power, whether from Washington, Moscow or Beijing, we must now create anti -power concentrations. In the long history of liberalism, the Fari Press, the Law, the Trade Unions, and the Business Society preserved the separation of political power, NGOs, and institutions that seek the truth such as universities, civil resistance, multilateral organizations, international alliances-in addition to multiple policy, free and advised-minimal self Men who will be kings.
In the mobilization of everyone who believes in equal individual freedom in this battle, we are the liberals we have a problem in our making. Policies associated with the minds of many people in liberalism over the past forty years have fed themselves the tanks of the popular discontent that National populists Continue support. New liberalism, which is shipped through globalized financial capitalism, has led to levels of inequality that has not been seen for a hundred years. The identity policy aims to treat the historical defects of the chosen minorities that left many members of our societies – especially eggs, males, workers and the middle class – a cultural and economically responsible feeling. Both these two sits retracted the promise of central liberalism, which was clearly summarized by the philosopher Ronald Durkin as “equal respect and anxiety” for everyone.
The neoliberalism also turned the world’s strongest democracy into something very close to the oligarchy. The chapter of private wealth and the public authority – a precious and fragile innovation of modern liberal democracy was reflected. Plutoccrats are not satisfied, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg They are now supporters From Donald Trump’s political power, while promoting his economic interests to his wealthy friends. With the help of the media and platforms controlled by Bluettocrats, Trump persuades many ordinary Americans that their suffering is totally due to foreigners (immigrants and China), in fact it is likely that people’s mistake like musk, Bezus and Zuckerberg.
Therefore, we have to fight simultaneously on two fronts: with the enemies of liberalism and the problems caused by liberalism itself. Unit will be strength. If each of them tries to negotiate separately with the fatwas, whether they are in Washington, Moscow or Beijing, they will choose us one by one.
These counter -energy alliances will consist of countries, but also from civil society actors and active citizens. At least half of the United States population with us. Electoral authoritarian states, such as Türkiye and Hungary, have many potential empty citizens. It will be the largest example in the world for the liberal internationally international, the European Union of 27 countries, decisive in Fightback. So major individual democracies, including Britain, Canada, Japan and Australia, will.
We need to do many things simultaneously. Promotion of free trade against Trump-The-THEIGHBOR protection is a clear starting point. It is also easier to say than doing it, because the useful mutual trading arrangements take time to formulate. However, there are some instantly accessible victories. A trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur Group from Latin American countries awaiting ratification by all relevant parties. Britain and the European Union should be more ambitious at their next summit on May 19. The European Union does not need any other person to participate in this to create one digital space and unified capital markets, nor to build European defense industries, which will also be a new Kennesian economic catalyst.
Monopathic platforms and huge wealth of American Oligarshi are a threat to all other countries. If the European Union is ready to use its regulatory strength, in coordination with the efforts of other liberal democracies, we can do more to reduce it. But the organization and taxes alone are not enough.
Either in Europe, CanadaAustralia or Japan, the entire digital infrastructure is actually American. Imagone and iPad are one day, along with the cloud provider, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter (AKA X-ITT). What will leave? Tikhak! And “Bluesky”, you can add, in reference to the preferred liberal social platform. But this is also an American. This is not only about infrastructure. It comes to how to create a digital public domain necessary for the future of liberal democracy.
Civil society initiatives can also help. Why, for example, we have not already seen a major statement of solidarity with Beat American universities From universities around the liberal world?
So consumer protests can be. The impact of the spontaneous boycott of Tesla cars pushes musk to return to its commercial activity, which reduces the free time that he can spend on sabotaging the administrative state of his country. Canadians now have the Buybeaver application on their phones, so They can avoid the goods made by the United States. (I hope to boycott Russian as well.)
It is also the issue of fighting style. The Bludgeon anti -nationalists use us, we are rapine. When it decreases, we go high. When they go to a monkey, we stay cold. When they lie through their teeth, we stand by the facts.
In foreign policy, the most urgent challenge is to save Ukraine, which is Trump Throw under the bus. The fact that it presses the Ukrainians to abandon their legal demand that they are part of the Ukrainian sovereign lands show how Ukraine’s support is now necessary to defend the basic principles of the liberal international system.
What appears after this hurricane will not be the same as it was before. It will be converted by us to learn from our mistakes, to better respond, and the revolutionary influence of Trump. A liberal democratic constellation will not be mainly secured by the “liberal Levithan”, in the amazing John Ecbere researcher, Prince Ecbere, something completely different from what we knew between 1945 and 2025.
Even geography will change. Canada, for example, which once seemed – in the most beautiful possible way – is somewhat oceanic for global affairs, comfortably tucked between America friendly and frozen polar pole, now looks like a state of confrontation lines. One of the most liberal countries in the world, along with Ukraine, is one of the most direct threats directly through Trump’s anti -liberal attack. The North Pole -soluble is a new major theater for international competition. Fortunately, It looks as if it were Canada It will have a government that is not only liberal in the name, but also liberal in nature.
A quarter of a century ago, when the United States was attacked by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001, the Le Monde editor wrote a famous famous title: “We are all Americans!” Today, friends of freedom around the world must say: “We are all Canadians!”
