Trump’s victory outlines a ‘fortress USA’ with fewer rights and a denier of the climate crisis

donald trump will occupy the White House. The “bloodbath” predicted by the Republican leader in the event that he loses the elections is therefore ruled out. USAwhich were held this November 5 and whose results were known in Spain on the morning of this Wednesday, November 6. North American politics will experience a 180 degree turn with international repercussions that are difficult to gauge. For now, Trump’s electoral program allows us to outline a United States much more isolated from the rest of the worldwith fewer rights and blindfolded in the face of climate change.

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Trump who will soon take the baton of command is the isolationism that he has sold and promised to his voters. The Republican leader wants to turn the United States into a strength literally and figuratively.

During this presidential campaign he has not abandoned the idea of ​​building a great wall in Mexico to prevent the passage of migrants. The immigration policies championed by Trump are extraordinarily restrictive. In recent weeks, he has described migrants as “criminalsdrug traffickers and rapists.” All this, in addition to accusing them of “eat dogs“or of”poison the blood of Americans“. This is a position that has permeated the public. More than 30% of Americans share that opinion, according to the annual North American Values ​​survey. The same percentage validates the violence to save America.

The Republican leader has assured, however, that will tighten asylum policies and has awakened the nervousness of the group of migrants, who have been listening for days and days to one of the central promises of the speech of the next president of the United States: mass deportations of irregular migrants.

Trump wants to take that conception of strength very far. The one from 2024 is an isolationist Trump contrary to NATOwhich has promised more sanctions against China and who wants to ensure the self-sufficiency American industrial, energy and pharmaceutical industry. He has also repeated over and over again in the campaign that he does not want wars for the United States, but that he will strengthen the country in terms weapons.

It is an isolationist drift that has a direct impact on the European Unionwhich, as already explained Public through the analysis of Javier Carbonellit is very possible that you will have to start an arms race to rearm in a new international context without North American military support. And the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East? Trump has already demonstrated on more than one occasion his closeness to Benjamin Netanyahu. As for Ukraine, its plans are to end the war by bringing Putin and Zelensky to a negotiating table and force the Ukrainian to give up part of their territory.

Abortion, climate crisis, healthcare and taxes

Another hot topic is Trump’s position against abortion. We will still have to see what happens, but, for the moment, it seems that Washington will not prohibit the interruption of pregnancy throughout the United States. He has said, however, that he leaves the decision in the hands of the different States. The magnate and next president already made moves during his first presidency by appointing three conservative judges to the Supreme Court (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett) who were key to ending the universal right to abortion in 2022.

It is unknown, for the moment, what will happen to the Obamacarethe program promoted by the Democrat Barack Obama to cover a part of the health costs of people from lower social backgrounds. Trump has insisted on its adverse effects and, without specifying too much, has pointed to a model in which competition between insurance. The conservative leader has also made it clear that he will reduce the fiscal pressure on the upper classes.

Analysts are also concerned about its eventual energy management, which is expected to be far from the Green New Deal and based on fossil energy. It is important to understand that the tycoon does not believe there is a climate crisis. Therefore, it will enhance the oil and gas extraction also as one more element of that protectionist story.

There are, therefore, a series of guidelines that will most likely guide Trump’s policies in his second stage in the White House. It remains to be seen how far his isolationist impetus and rights cuts go. Also what is the political climategiven that the budding president has demonstrated the profusion with which he generates hoaxes and the closeness he maintains with Elon Muskowner of the social network X, with whom he stars in a tandem that has already proven influential and potentially dangerous for public debate. Trump assaults power, this time, with the ballot box.