There Goes a Novel Term – Trumpism
Op-Ed
My amateurish view of modern political science depicts the course of global politicking as ‘flexible’ which is good, ‘fickle’ which is unsafe, and ‘dubious’ which is bad. On the other hand, there are some attractive sides to this worldwide process, like the Trumpesque style of handling the inner workings of the United States, as well as America’s niche in the international family of nations, its rights, obligations and attitudes towards the countries who in fact are not capable of survival without America lending them a Good Samaritan’s hand, our Georgia being one of the kind.
Trump came to the helm and things changed, and the change has drastically told on internal and external American policies, irritating the liberally charged American citizenry to a hysterical degree, and turning upside down the democratic political kitchen headed by the current speaker of the house. The sitting American president didn’t need the headache of the world’s key country’s chief executive because he is as rich as Croesus and could have lived longer, healthier and happier without the heavy golden saddle on his back, but he chose to make America great again. Bravo!
Trump knows well that the refreshed world order has to be met by new tools for its treatment, and he is daringly applying those innovative geopolitical vehicles. Who would’ve thought that he might challenge the rules of paying dues to NATO and the United Nations, or grow apprehensive of the fairness of international trade, or doubt the virtue of environmental treaties and continue fortifying the country’s borders with concrete walls by hundreds of miles? Who is not aware today that America’s commercial enslavement to Chinese shoddy cheap-mania has come to a finale, and that the markets around the world have in panic perked their flapping ears, with stocks going through heads-up quakes? Who doesn’t know that the Russian-American adversity is methodically being cast into a potential mutual cooperation to the benefit of the rest of the world, whereas the pre-Trump Russian-American reset was a total fiasco? Who would not admit that the Euro-Union is looking at the USA with goggle eyes, at a loss about the unpredictability of America’s global behavior? Who will believe that America is really giving in to deliberately exacerbated racism and artificially overblown white supremacy, undermining the fairest and most powerful constitution in the history of Mankind? Who on earth, except the idle and cowardly democrats, would wish to close the country to trigger more hunger deaths than any pandemic pest would manage to kill? Who would trust the histrionics of perpetually losing liberals, staging their preposterous acts in the corona-ridden streets of America’s towns and cities?
Meanwhile, the second-term-happy Donald Trump will not allow the enemies of America to weaken the large-scale influence of the United States, to fail its authority among peers, or to abate its power of universal decision-making. Trumpism is on the assault, and America should be proud of it. The United States has in the last hundred years patronized the world in the most positive meaning of this statement, for which it has patiently and unreservedly used its every available resource. But no resource is infinite, and no patience is endless. Incidentally, President Lincoln’s famous quote is asking here to be paraphrased: “You can feed some of the countries all of the time, and all of the countries some of the time, but you cannot feed all of the countries all of the time.”
Donald Trump has probably gotten right the words of that genius sooner than any other living or dead American politician in history. Understandably, some of us can take it easy and others might drop dead having faced the gist of Trumpism’s historic value.
Without an iota of doubt, America has its merits and flaws, like any other nation, and Trumpism is part of that kind of valuation, but whether the liberal democracy wanted the guy to be or not to be the President of the United States, he has already secured his fascinating spot in the annals of the nation which nothing and nobody can change, even the filthiest attempt of his recent stillborn impeachment. That’s what Trumpism is all about!
By Nugzar B. Ruhadze
Source: poynter.org