Ist Trump das Symptom des Niedergangs Amerikas?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/27/trump-wants-to-reverse-americas-decline-good-luck
Ist Trump das Symptom des Niedergangs Amerikas?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/27/trump-wants-to-reverse-americas-decline-good-luck
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He is either a Caesar or a Commodus, time will tell.
I mean I can feel some very strange vibes from the US. This *offended* s*ociopathic populism* is very unusual. For me it is not the sign of strength, but a sign of decline. Grabbing territories, ditching old allies, fearing new emerging powers – this is not the behavior of a strong and confident superpower.
It’s a symptom of America’s autoimmune disorder, just attacking itself before it shuts down completely.
It’s the end of their Republic, they’ve let corporations and corrupt politicians destroy their democracy for profit. Governance and the rule of law is crumbling.
I remembered someone famous predicted this
Yes. Trump wouldn’t be possible if a lot of other things weren’t already broken about American political society and culture. He is certainly malignant but he is most definitely not the malignance itself.
I keep thinking about that old postwar quote, „When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving the cross“ and how disturbingly prescient it was.
Is water wet?
Well, I’d hesitate to say decline, but it’s certain that the america of the 20th century is dead.
Trump is a symptom of massive internal societal problems that America keeps bottling up and seems institutionally completely unable and unwilling to resolve. There is no objective need for America to withdraw from its global positions or to scale down its interests and commitments – the country isn’t facing any sort of difficulty financing them, and in fact still possesses enormous untapped financial potential (it has very low taxes and a huge economy).
However, America is still plagued by notions of collapse and decline. I think that is because its society is facing problems that it doesn’t want to actually face, due to various deeply ingrained socio-cultural and political mental barriers. And because the actual source of those societal problems cannot be addressed, all sorts of grifters and politicians have now cottoned on that they can simply employ various different appeals to emotion in order to exploit their population’s rising distress for enormous political gain.
My country is facing a war of ideologies that can be boiled down to conservatism vs progressivism. Obama being the president traumatized conservatives for 8 years. For them it was a signal that the foundation of their hierarchy was eroding. Trump is the final death throw for them to maintain that hierarchy in the United States. They need to consolidate their power because they know if they don’t they will lose it forever. They have cranked up the fear mongering to 11 and have shattered the psyche of a third of the country to achieve their goals. If they win, they will export their terror by lashing out at the world from the rage they have built to gain power.
Yes. But he is doing his best to save it.
Je pense que Trump est un symptome de la montee de l’extreme droite dans le monde entier.
when Trump made a choose like 100% tariffing to any nation who doesn’t need dollar to trade that is sign of weak and bad business to anyone for threating people like that . American made is so expensive to compare those Chinese , Indian and Vietnamese made for same product they made