Reign of terror | Eurozine

American citizens live in a terrifying rule. Trump ordered the US Marines and National Guard to quell relatively benign streets Protests in Los AngelesCalifornia, opposes his crackdown on immigration.

The number of government departments, programs and private institutions that Trump is in the process of decimating is also surprising. Ministry of Education, National Fund for the Arts, National Fund for the Humanities, Medicaid, Harvard University (many other institutions of higher education), the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, doubled in the long run.

His actions on the international stage are equally troubling. Aside from the over-inflated group of “trades” Trump has made in the UK and the Middle Eastern countries, we are not only comical pride. Heads of state, like Ukraine’s Voldimir Zelensky and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, are being humiliated and threatened. The war between Gaza and Ukraine continues. And the highly inconsistent tariff leverage forces others around the world to reassess their relationship with the United States.

Economists are increasingly concerned that the president’s lack of economic vision will be the cause Recession within the next six months. Trump’s budget bill is moving towards the Senate with massive cuts from Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare. flat Conservative senators complain As to how much damage these cuts will cause to their members.

But rather than a ton of articles written from helpless rage or an analysis of the current situation is added as if within the realm of rationality, let me offer some takeouts summed up over the past four months under Trump.

Forget Freudian psychology

If you want to understand Trump’s actions, you don’t need to look any further than the schoolyard bully. Trump’s sw walking, his raised fist, his hissing irony – all remind me of the square chin bulldog from an old Disney comic. Identifying how Trump became a bully may not be useful enough to recognize how committed he is to keep it up. At 79, he has not yet stepped out of the schoolyard.

He chooses less powerful countries (Ukraine, Denmark, Canada, Mexico) and messes up countries (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia) where leaders and wealth threaten or impress him. Like all bullies, he leaves the fight. In his first term he saw this in his ti-sick relationship with Iraq, Syria and North Korea. The same difference has emerged in his upset behavior with Russia, Israel and Iran.

It didn’t take long for a foreign head of state to see his fierce past and find his vulnerability. As the cameras rolled during a White House visit, Canadian Mark Kearney and British Kiel Stage stayed on the sidelines, with Trump bulging his chest and offering merchandise like an invitation to Buckingham Palace, making gentle sarcasms to let the audience know that it was all a game. This seems to be their strategy to keep him at bay.

The lonely man in the world

Trump’s greedy need for attention suggests that he may be the loneliest man in the world. According to some reports, First Lady is away from the President. His stranger suggestions, like his impulse to impose 100% tariffs on every film made outside the US, must wonder if the press is going to be late in the day and when he feels particularly abandoned.

The media is his biggest addiction. Ten former Fox News hosts hold cabinet-level positions in the Trump administration, including the Secretary of Defense, Transport and Director of the National Intelligence. Comedians recently removed“I’ve heard of state television. This is the state of television management.”

Trump gives interviews to everyone And everyone. “If they write good stories and true stories to the Atlantic people, the magazines will get hot,” he cried out to reporters from the left-leaning journal in a telephone interview just days after venting a society of truth to the journal publishers. Some of his interviews have obviously been going on for days. There is something terribly generous or rather irresponsible about Trump’s long media pursuit when the country needs to govern.

In recent history of the US president, Reagan was the only one who was used to the media. But Trump is even poorer. His reliance on publicity suggests that he will continue to come up with increasingly strange ideas to inspire journalists to interest him in the future. Organizing his true intentions from his fancy flight will continue to speculate us for the rest of his term.

What kind of vision?

Trump has no comprehensive vision. At least there’s nothing everyone follows. Beyond isolationists, there’s nothing to latch as a “trade”-oriented approach to the world, a light daze to American bureaucracy, and a light empt to those he finds as “foreigners.” If his advisor has a vision, his mood changes hinder his delivery and make his philosophy unclear.

Some commentators have argued that Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is the master plan behind the Trump administration. But even a rough reading of the preface Leadership Delegation: Conservative Promise This concept is questioned by admonition to Congress that “recovering its own power from the bureaucrats and the White House.” Trump’s reign focuses on putting as much power as possible in his own hands, rather than giving him back to Congress.

The only guidelines are Trump himself. His feelings based on real or imagined little things, including his likes and dislikes, his experiences as a businessman and entertainer, and the resentful resentment of rumors to Harvard. University rejected my son.

One of the many dangers of his waffle style is the possible outliers’ effects. recently Laura Rumer’s successwho persuaded Trump to replace his national security adviser is an example of how vulnerable he is to influence from ignored sources. From Rasputin to the astrologer of Nancy Reagan, history is full of such dark figures. And Rumer wouldn’t be the last of this kind of thing to see during Trump’s tenure.

A helpless court

So far, courts have failed to prevent Trump’s attacks on immigration and private institutions. Immigrants remain in security prisons in El Salvador, Panama, Guantanamo Bay and South Sudan. Foreign students pack it to get home. Educational institutions have closed dozens of research programs. And this situation cannot be any better.

There are three main reasons for the inaction of the court. The first is a simple procedure. American jurisprudence takes time. The lawsuit has to go through many courts, and since the beginning of the Republic, lawyers know how to slow the process down to crawl.

Second, the politicization of appointed judges will allow Zigzag to appeal to the Supreme Court, further slowing the process, depending on which end of the political spectrum the judges represent. The sitting president appoints Supreme Court justice, who shares political positions. Due to the split between progressive and conservatives, the Supreme Court has not shown a real interest in restraining Trump. He supported his dare to the law.

The third reason appears to be a combination of ti-disease and fear of exposure. Those impotences may become apparent if the courts pretend to be actual resistance. No judge had the courage to lightly empty Trump and demand that he comply with their decisions. What kind of power can a court actually exercise against a truly fraudulent president? They have several officers with pistols to maintain their orders in court, but if the president chooses not to respect their decision, their responses are limited.

Meanwhile, the administrator pays the system lip service. It says it complies with the law and then keeps on the delay.

Democrats’ failure measures

The lower than the president’s polls Democrats’ favor reviewthis is 29% miserable. The Rallies, a 25-hour speech by a Democrat senator, is another senator’s futile attempt to free the deportees in El Salvador. Democrat voters have not particularly spoken out about the actions of demands from their representatives.

For years, commentators said that The Democrats were lostIvy League, Wall Street, and overidentification of identity politics. Recent publications of The Original Sin: President Biden’s decline, cover-up and his miserable choice to run againthe revelation of the previous presidential administration simply added fuel to the fire. Many Americans feel that Democrats are as hypocritical and “elitist” as Republicans. This is the main political oath of our time.

Democrat senators and representatives are occasionally speaking up against Trump, but leaders spend most of their energy cavalry and seeking positions Running for President in 2028. That seems to be Benito’s strategy. The Biden administration passed a sweeping bill that addresses record low unemployment and infrastructure and climate change, but Democrats still lost a significant amount last November. Without a doubt, Biden’s last minute exit was part of the problem. But failure also involved a lack of ideas, a lack of leadership and a bitters about what was the foundation of the Democrats. The racial composition of the country.

If Democrats can’t find a way to reinvent themselves, their outlook for 2028 is bleak.

There is no moral leader

Trump’s biggest “success” was Moral removal The focus was on victory, greed, convenience and profit from the government. It is clear that we have entered an age of blatant morality and self-interest.

Who can reintroduce morality into politics? A brave person – a strong man – the push from the right is so intense and merciless that he is brave in seeing himself as a martian. A charismatic person, someone who already has a big public presence: both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton come to mind.

We don’t know who this person is and who will come out – in relatively recent American history there is one of Joseph Welch.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was perhaps the most divided American politician of the 20th century. During the Cold War era of the early 1950s, he campaigned against communists and Soviet sympathizers in many branches of government and university, spreading accusations to homosexuals who could be vulnerable to Soviet terrifying mail.

His chairman of the Senate subcommittee on investigations reached its peak at the 1954 Army McCarthy hearing. The hearing was televised and watched by millions. In an exchange with Welch, a Boston lawyer representing the Army, McCarthy implied that a lower-ranked lawyer from Welch’s company had communist sympathy as he was a member of the Progressive Bar Association.

Welch’s rebuttal became one of the most eloquent moments in American history. “Until this moment, Senator,” Welch told McCarthy. Senator, let’s not assassinate this young man more. You did enough. Finally, do you have no sense of conscience? Do you leave a sense of decency? ”

Welch’s statement, coupled with several television shows by respected journalist Edward R. Murrow, proved to be a turning point in McCarthy’s career. His influence faded, and he was “condemned” by the Senate and died shortly afterwards.

“Consciousness” is not a term that is often used in American politics today. It is necessary for someone of Joseph Welch’s height to revive the word and restore its connection to American debate.

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