By Dimitris Eleas
The world was shaken by Donald Trump’s inauguration speech and the phrase, “our Golden Age has just begun” is like kidding.
There are many reasons why such a man, with such a big “Ego” was re-elected President of the USA. It is the hundred million Americans who have been impoverished. The rift from decades of economic inequality. Both major parties are to blame, but one party, the Democratic Party, is the one that represented the poor and those without degrees, supposedly, but forgot them along the way. And the Right, which knows how to preserve itself, would not miss such an opportunity.
The inauguration was attended by everyone, from the CEOs of the most powerful companies in the best seats, to the man with the chainsaw (President Miley of Argentina). All the elite of “the shores of America” united, along with the former presidents, and all the elite now supports Trump. Openly, without pretense and it’s not just the tax breaks. Dystopia! Did he make anyone go away with the nonsense he was saying?
Trump’s speech had a Wild West fantasy of “America will expand” and imperialism – to take back the Panama Canal, to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America – and elements of hyperbole as always. It is the style of extravagance and spectacle! This with the two sexes is the work of science and not politics. He spoke plainly about immigration and tariffs. This about “freedom of speech” is also the First Amendment to the American Constitution, it is the only logical thing one heard. This is also logical with Mars, because in the near future Humanity will be “forced” to expand elsewhere.
Melania made a big impression with the “vicar’s wide hat” she was wearing, and Trump’s kisses on her were seen as being in the air. She also looked like the heroine of a French novel at a funeral. What did Shakespeare miss, I thought, who was born in the wrong century and never wrote about how a scheming ruler can win over an entire kingdom by telling lies. The American people in the past felt decadence and betrayal. However, this people is not stupid, with the election of Trump it shakes everyone and everything, inside and outside, and especially the great powers, Russia and China, should not rush to take America’s place in the world. America does not leave the chair. In fact, one of the chair’s feet, in my estimation, is already firmly placed in Greenland.
It’s the next four years, enough time for the Democrats to find the ball again, and they will if they listen to a wise “old man” from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, but also Michael Sandel and Thomas Piketty and especially what the two important thinkers discussed in Paris some time ago. These gentlemen – the former a political philosopher at Harvard and the latter an economist – explain perfectly why Trump prevailed, why everywhere the Right is raising its head, and what can change now. Their book, “Equality: What it means and why it matters,” will be released soon.
At the same time, the Trump Administration, for all its comedy and tragedy, will be Shakespearean in scope – and undeniably entertaining for all Americans and more. The decrees issued already are the beginning…
Dimitris Eleas is a New York-based political scientist, researcher, writer, and activist.
24 January 2025
Source: countercurrents.org