The main Western superpower is once again in the hands of an unpredictable person, without complexes and with a reactionary agenda. Donald Trump has not only won the elections, he has managed to prevail in an open cultural battle currently in the world, closely linked to how the consequences of climate change are managed, how the losers of globalization are cared for and what attitude to take in the face of it. feminist advances.
“The Democrats have governed for four years based on the ‘everything is fine’ and they went to the elections with a project of ‘no change’ and this is what happens,” reflects Michael Galant, senior researcher at the Center for Economic and Social Research. Politics (CEPR), in Washington, DC: “Even if this is Trump’s last term, for anyone who has doubts in the Republican Party, the shift to the hard right will have been proven to be a winning strategy.”
“Unfortunately,” Galant continues, “I also have no faith that the Democrats will learn their lesson, and I think they will bet on ‘let’s move further to the right to take the space granted by the traditional anti-Trump Republicans.’
Democratic Texas congressman Greg Casar, a member of the most progressive caucus on Capitol Hill, insisted in an interview in elDiario.es: “If the Democratic Party does not create another narrative in which it is said that the big Wall Street banks and the big companies corporations are the ones causing price increases, and the wages of workers in the United States are not being raised sufficiently, then Trump’s narrative is left alone. After this election we can no longer be a Democratic party that does not have a clear narrative that we are the party of the working class and the middle class of this country.”
Indeed, looking at the voter profile data, this Tuesday’s result is the worst result for Democrats among the lower classes (households with incomes below $30,000 annually) in two decades. Houses with incomes between $30,000 and $50,000, as well as between $50,000 and $100,000, mostly opted for Trump. And what happens among higher-income voters? In homes worth between $100,000 and $200,000, the Democratic Party won with 53% of the votes (in 2020, however, Trump won) and the same goes for incomes of more than $200,000, which went 52%. % by Harris.
“It should come as no surprise that a Democratic Party that has abandoned the working class finds that the working class has abandoned them,” Bernie Sanders wrote after the election: “While Democratic leaders defend the status quo, the American people are angry.” and wants a change. And he is right.”
Thus, Donald Trump has won thanks to the vote of impoverished workers, climate change deniers and reactionaries to feminism; Trump has proven to be stronger than Harris in social sectors supposedly aligned with progressivism and that the Democratic Party took for granted, such as the most impoverished classes or some ethnic minorities, and has managed to defeat those who present themselves with an agenda based on diversity, reproductive rights and the environment.
The future president’s programmatic manifesto says this:: in his chapter in response to the battle against heteropatriarchy and the denunciation of white domination: “Cut federal funding for any school that promotes critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other racial, sexual, or political content.” inappropriate for our children. “Keep men out of women’s sports.”
And to help him carry out that program, Trump has decided that Susie Wiles will be his future chief of staff, a powerful position in the White House: “Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the biggest political victories in the American history, and was an integral part of my successful 2016 and 2020 campaigns…Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to make America great again. “It is a well-deserved honor to have Susie as the first female chief of staff in American history.” Wiles is a veteran political operative who is considered a fundamental part of Trump’s electoral victory.
New World
The world that will be inaugurated on January 20 will have in the White House someone who has said that he will leave the NATO allies to their fate if they do not pay the bills; who has acknowledged having good relations with Putin, and who has good relations with those who are most in tune with the Russian president in Europe, such as the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, with whom he spoke shortly after winning the elections.
“He is a brave person,” Putin said after learning the election result, referring to Trump’s reaction after he was shot during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July: “People show themselves how they are in circumstances.” extraordinary. That’s where a person reveals himself. And he showed himself, in my opinion, in a very correct, brave way. Like a man.”
Putin also claimed that Trump had been “harassed from all sides” during the campaign, and congratulated him on his victory. “What he said about the desire to restore relations with Russia, to end the Ukrainian crisis, in my opinion, deserves at least attention,” the Russian president said.
Putin said he was “willing” to talk with Trump, criticizing other world leaders who “used to call him every week” but who have now stopped doing so. Trump, for his part, said Thursday in an interview with NBC that Putin was not among the dozens of world leaders he had already spoken to, but that he expected a call soon. “I think we’ll talk,” Trump said.
Mark Leonard, director of the think tank ECFR, warns that “it is dangerous not to take Trump seriously and not prepare for a new world. “Europe needs to learn to defend itself with less of the United States.” Célia Belin, director of ECFR Paris, says for her part: “Trump’s re-election will have historical consequences, in political and geopolitical terms. The Trump-led United States will pose unprecedented challenges to Europe on a wide range of global issues: Ukraine, NATO, China, global trade and climate. Within his own party he will have to deal with different foreign policy doctrines. The ”primacists” (who want the US to maintain a hegemonic foreign policy); the ‘moderates’ (who want the US to focus on internal issues); and the growing ‘prioritarians’ camp (who want the US to focus on China). The latter two sides are the most influential in Trump’s orbit, and their perspective is that the United States should deprioritize Europe and disengage from alliances.
The weight of the Middle East
The Biden administration never broke with Benjamin Netanyahu, nor even pushed for an arms embargo to stop the killing in Gaza. The head of European diplomacy himself, Josep Borrell, has said more than once that if the US does not want massacres in Gaza, what it has to do is stop providing weapons to Israel.
Peter Beinart, a professor at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, wrote this Thursday in The New York Times: “For decades, Democratic Party leaders have treated the fight for Palestinian freedom as a taboo. Harris thought it was more sensible to campaign with Liz Cheney than, for example, Congresswoman [musulmana de Michigan] Rashida Tlaib. “Despite overwhelming evidence, his campaign failed to see that among progressive voters, the Palestine exception no longer applies.”
“There is only one way forward,” Beinart writes: “Although it will require fierce infighting, Democrats, who claim to respect human equality and international law, must begin to align their policies on Israel and Palestine with these broader principles. In this new era, where supporting Palestinian freedom has become central to what it means to be progressive, the Palestinian exception is not only immoral. It is politically disastrous. For a long time, Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere have been paying for that exception with their lives. Now Americans are paying for it too. It can cost us our freedom.”
The cost of freedom
In any case, Donald Trump will go much further in his support for Israel, with what this means in promoting the new configuration of the map of the Middle East that Netanyahu is promoting. This is what he says in his program: “We will support Israel and seek peace in the Middle East.” Benjamin Netanyahu greeted Trump’s victory like this: “Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for the United States and a return to commitment to the great alliance between Israel and the United States. “It’s a great victory!”
It is also a world in which a contagious way of doing politics is rewarded, with ramifications in Latin America and Europe, which is based on lies, manipulations and half-truths, on the intoxication of public debate, on the dehumanization of the opponent. and in its persecution: it has been seen in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Javier Milei’s Argentina, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel or Boris Johnson’s United Kingdom.
And this conception of the world and politics has its main supporter in command of the West, which will play at getting along with Russia and confronting China, at undermining multilateral organizations like the UN – it already left the WHO during the COVID pandemic. -19–, to fuel the military escalation.
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