Donald Trump's triumph in the U.S. presidential election caused a clear stir around the world. The fear of radicalism and the unpredictability of the fresh president's actions dominates, who has already become known from the incorrect side, holding this office from 2016 to 2020. inactive being an elector, Trump reported ownership aspirations towards the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada. Is he trying to follow Alfred Hitchcock’s regulation that he must start with an earthquake and then the tension will proceed to rise? All over the world, fascists and populists enjoy Trump's victory. The president represents their goals and values. However, the joy of the Polish right hand may last briefly erstwhile it turns out that Trump's global policy is in the vital interests of Poland.
In Polish media, most comments concern the global effects of the fresh American policy. However, it is worth considering the interior consequences of Trump’s rule. Does he truly have a chance to make America large again from the point of view of those Americans who, for various reasons, feel frustrated? The United States is the world's top power. However, there is concern that Trump's governments for their economic, military and political size will not become a threat alternatively of inspiring their further development.
What is Trumpism? This is simply a peculiar kind of conservatism, a combination of nationalism, populism and traditionalism. The personification of this conservatism is simply a strong man, convinced of his right and without doubt. That's the kind of man Trump plays.
Trump's nationalism expressed in the slogan "America first" fundamentally means giving up the function the United States played in the modern world, which was defending democracy. This country, utilizing its military and economical potential, sought to preserve democratic values worldwide. As such, he counterbalanced dictatorships and authoritarianism. By closing into Europe, as Trump announced, America opens the way for the fulfillment of Russia's imperial intentions. This is the end of America's imagination as we have known since its Founding Fathers. The value of freedom is replaced by a much closer value to Trump. alternatively of fighting to grow the borders of the free world, Trump promises the benefits of buying or mastering Greenland and the Panama Canal. He may inactive be able to make Canada the 50th first state. Trump besides wants to enroll in past by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to American.. With its nationalism, Trump wants to gain supporters for whom the size of America depends not on its pro-democratic function in the world, but on the size of its territory and the wealth of its citizens. Many Americans enjoy comfortable isolationism, which will not require sending American soldiers to distant corners of the world.
Trump's populism has a peculiar character. Trump talks a lot about the request to meet the needs of average people, improve their surviving conditions. But what he intends to do is to meet the expectations of large capital. That's why he found specified support among American multimillionaires. Demonstrative withdrawal from action to counter the climate crisis is, of course, a manifestation of populism due to the fact that it meets people's reluctance to change, especially erstwhile they require any sacrifice. However, moving distant from Green Deal activities, endless drilling in oil extraction, the further improvement of the meat industry, all of this is meant to service not average people but American business and the improvement of turbocapitalism. To meet the greed of entrepreneurs is more crucial than caring for the surviving conditions of future generations.
Similarly, wellness care is subject to the greed of insurance companies in America. Barak Obama tried to make a difference for the better, but his "Obama Care" program was liquidated by Trump during his erstwhile term. Now Trump announces cancer treatment through superintelligence, presenting himself as a benefactor who gives hope to the sick. However, he does not mention that specified treatment will be horrendously costly and can afford it people like Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg.
The purely populist nonsubjective is besides to halt immigration and mass deportations of illegal immigrants. Trump can indeed number on wider support from those who fear competition in access to employment and the emergence in crime. The immigration blockade is supported by erstwhile immigrants who have already settled in the US and are most afraid about competition from fresh visitors. The effects on the American economy will be interesting erstwhile the immigrant hands are abruptly lacking.
Trump's traditionalism is expressed in the wording of his goal: "To make America the same as it utilized to be." There's no telling how far he's going to go back: slavery, killing Indians or Al Capone's activities? It is only known that he would like to return to old customs where there was no area for LGBT+ people. Just in case Trump issued a decree on the existence of only 2 sexes: male and female. Like an omnipotent demiurge, he thus nullified part of the American society. He besides assured in his throne speech that he would absolutely fight all left-wing trials woke and cancel culture, leading to a change of position on the past of the United States, in which heroes were erstwhile wrongly regarded as defending slavery and racial segregation, earned in the death of Indians and opponents of women's equality. Trump signed a decree to ban service in the military for transgenders and to end the programs of diversity, equality and inclusion in the military that Biden introduced. Of course, Trump does not intend to restrict the freedom of Americans in the possession of weapons.
Trump's governments are withdrawing civilizationally America despite having the most modern technologies. This is not about his decisions that his successor in the White home will be able to change or invalidate. It is about the impact of these governments on a social culture that fosters nationalist and populist attitudes. It's about promoting obscurantism and irrationalism. QAnon supporters and another conspiracy theories may feel satisfied. They were the ones who recruited the attackers to the Capitol on the day of Joe Biden's oath, who now experience their triumph after Trump acquitted them.
Here are any examples that symbolize the effects of the culture of Trumpism. The first concerns the primacy of business regardless of the climatic and wellness effects on American society. The illustration may be an example of DuPont, which utilized the PFOA chemical (ammonium perfluorooctane, besides known as C8) in the production of teflon for decades, despite interior studies indicating its harmfulness. Meanwhile, PFOA, not the teflon itself, has been associated with wellness problems specified as thyroid dysfunction, decreased fertility and any cancers. Teflon production in the town of Parkersburg, West Virginia, where DuPont had its facilities, has led to contamination of drinking water and many wellness problems among both workers and residents. I wonder what the effects of deregulation policy will be, which has wide opened the way for free business in pursuit of profit as the highest value.
The second symbol, which has characterized America for many years, is the function of lawyers representing large corporations. Their task is to effectively defend companies against accusations of environmental harm and to origin adverse wellness effects on workers and customers, as well as against all another accusations, specified as sexual harassment and mobbing. The legal service of companies seeks to maximise the extension of pending court proceedings and to conclude a settlement, i.e. to supply the injured organization with a crucial compensation, which, however, always represents only a tiny percent of the profit from the alleged activity. In order for this activity to proceed to be carried out, without discriminating its negative effects, corporate lawyers request confidentiality of the case.
The 3rd symbolic example is an attack on the gay club Pulse in Orlando, Florida in 2016. The attack was carried out by a homophobe who, for spiritual reasons, shot 50 people and injured fifty-three. It was the most bloody act of force against LGBT+ people. But is it the last one? A clearly homophobic component of the culture of Trumpism can easy loosen the somewhat hatred of Trump supporters referring to the conventional kind of heterosexual macho, pioneer and conqueror.
Example 4 is related to the previous. It's about the right of free access to weapons, as a conventional part of American culture. Acquired from the culture of the chaotic West, the belief that an American citizen must be able to defend his family, his property and his rights, has been taking bloody toll in American schools for years, where many shootings take place. In 2023 there were 349, and in 2024 – 322. Thus young people take revenge on their teachers and colleagues, treating their complexes. American school shooting sociologists already call it a cultural phenomenon.
There is no uncertainty that Trump, as a business typical who intends to regulation the country as a major corp is being managed, will further deepen the mechanics for maximising profit at the expense of society. fewer lawyers who undertake to defend average people against the greed and callousness of corporate sharks will be even more outsiders in their environment than always before. Trump is not curious in human rights but in the law of American business.
Donald Trump undertook an interesting experimentation involving the improvement of the country by withdrawing it to the 19th century, to McKinley's customs policy, to the plundering management of natural resources, to chaotic capitalism and to patriarchal culture. In America, however, there are quite a few wise and socially active people who will not want to let the civilizational regression of their country, its oligarchization, the deepening climate and wellness crisis, the irrationalism of the ruling. What will consequence from the increasing polarization of American society? Given free access to weapons, possibly another civilian war.
