We take inspiration from Trump's election, but we can broaden the concept to all of the recent history of the United States. Analysis and debates of the post-elections, often focus on "What will happen now", pointing the spotlight on the moves of the newly elected President and the future of the nation.
In the current context, the questions are even more relevant, since the unforeseen election of Trump suggests an important change of scenery on the horizon, both internally and on foreign policy.
As a further starting point for reflection, however, we could ask ourselves if the arrival of a President considered to be a break from the previous administration, is really a forerunner to makeover important or if vice versa it is the synthesis of a change of course requested for some time by the electorate. In other words, will Trump be the one to change the country or will America have been seething with stratified social discontent for years?
In a pure presidential system, where the head of state is also the head of government and assumes the role of an absolute monarch (especially if supported by a friendly Congress), it is clear that all the products of the mandate will be referred to his direct work. Just to cite a few examples: it was so for Kennedy, who went down in history as a liberal president with great views; this was the case with Reagan, the father of the great US return after the somb of the 70 years; this was the case for Obama, the first African-American president, the patron of breaking a thousand taboos ...
In reality, each President is born from a popular investiture that has developed a conscience throughout the previous administration. This is especially true if the outgoing President has enjoyed a double mandate, increasing the chances that a reversal of the state of affairs is pleasing to the electorate. This disregards the virtues and successes of an administration: it is an inevitable need for replacement that is linked to the evolution of the times. Churchill also paid for it, leading the United Kingdom to victory in the World War, but was scrapped soon after. How to say: "The party is over, the saint has fallen ...".
To stick with the examples then, we can interpret Kennedy more as the charismatic symbol of a new generation ready to move from General Eisenhower to the beat of the 60s, than as an innovative President who came from who knows where. Same thing for Reagan, exhumer of America from the ashes of Vietnam, of Watergate, from the fool in Iran and from the economic and identity depression of the 70s.
Coming to our days, the reasoning is the same. Obama retired Bush's America riding on pressuring liberal circles and demands, matured in 8 years of radical "republicanism". Now that it's up to Trump, it's not hard to imagine that those same issues no longer represent the inner heart of a nervous and disappointed country. If Obama was the embodiment of the revenge of cultural, ethnic, religious minorities and the ideal bank to overthrow all American political traditionalism, it was tens of millions of Americans who had long remained without a voice to push Trump to the threshold of the White House. No matter what someone turns up their mouth, there is a demographic majority in the States made up of whites, Christians and hetorsexuals, of which at least half are men, who have the right to have an opinion and above all free access to the vote. So it is and you have to be there.
It would be worth saying "Times change" and it's just like that indeed. Trump will not be introducing who knows what news then, but it has been an America that has been tired of certain environments to ask to do so. What touches him, it can be contingency, destiny or even skill. Trying to break the shell of universal thought structured on the most common places of the politically correct, it was not an easy task and in all honesty, we needed the appropriate character. Now we will see, knowing that "What is to be expected from Trump" it becomes in reality "What can be expected from the America that elected him".
The axis of analysis is moved on this. If Hillary Clinton and theintelligentsia DEM have not been able to capture the deepest heartbeat of the country, the same thing is happening in the rest of the West?
What the States will be through the choices of the new President corresponds to what the States have murmured in recent years of profound detachment from Obama's work. Does the same apply to Europe?
Judging by the electoral responses of recent years in several European countries, the answer can only be "yes", with all certainty. While the ruling lobbies in Washington were moving away from an expanded social base (with the exception of the liberal strongholds, now back in the minority), even in Europe there is the certainty that the bureaucratic political power is not keeping pace with the discontent of local communities.
The institutional "simplicity" of the US, however, guaranteed the change, confirming the great form of direct democracy that represents America. Will it be like this too?
The starting point is interesting and invites us to a consideration: we must not ask ourselves what the Trump presidency will bring for America, but what will happen to the world that depends directly or indirectly on America.
Are we Europeans, spoiled by half a century of cultural, political and ideological powers, yet we are still able to decide on our future? Flattened on the American long wave that we have followed in every passage, from the XIII long years' McCarthyism to the gay friendly the last decade, what will we do in front of a 180 ° steering wheel like the Trump election? Are we going to tilt in a short circuit between the people and institutions that do not represent it or will we make the dogs that reposition themselves in front of the master?
In this regard it will be interesting to see the political language of the administrations embedded from the liberal superpower of Washington, which among other faults has had above all that of being immortal and loved by everyone.
Only for this reason it is worth keeping your eyes open for at least five years.
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