This is the election year par excellence. 3.6 billion people in more than 70 countries, almost half of the population, will be able to vote. Some have already done so in Russia, India, the United Kingdom, France or the European Union. Others will do it. Americans will have their appointment with the polls on November 5, the first Tuesday after the first Monday of the month, as tradition dictates. All elections are important, but what happens that day will attract all the attention, as has happened during the campaign with the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the resignation of the re-election candidate, Joe Biden. It will already bring all the interest because whoever is elected will influence the entire world. This new monograph from Vanguardia Dossier x-rays the United States that supports Trump, a reactionary movement with deep roots (Castells).
Trump does not have one voter that defines him, but several. And the engine that animates and defines its bases, which are not only made up of white voters without higher education, but also by members of the communities of color (English) and Hispanics (Méndez), both groups on the rise, is a deep resentment against the elites, whom he presents as enemies of the American people (Senserrich). It appeals to the most basic human instincts, such as the will to oppose and survive, transcending ideological barriers (Weisbrode). He has created his own party, which differs from the Republican Party in principles and also in organization: it embraces a provincial nationalism, rejects the international involvement of the United States and no longer has an establishment because there is only one leader: himself (Janda). It has given rise to the new right (Continetti) and elevated one of its members, JD Vance, to vice presidential candidate. “It’s a question of power,” said his now number two about Trump’s attempt to reverse the election result that Biden won.
A convicted felon, casino owner, married three times and an adulterer who pays off his lovers, Trump is seen as a combative champion in the culture war against the liberal elite – which includes the media (White) – and secularism. For this reason, and because Trump was willing to pass laws and appoint judges who privileged a Christian vision of the conservative world – see the Supreme Court ruling on abortion, for example – he has Christian support (Hibbard). Pure political tribalism and basic transactionalism. A question of power, not ideology.
Thus, and as of June of this year, the judges appointed by Trump are a third of the Supreme Court, 30% of those who are full-time on the appeals court (more than any other president) and 26% of the judges district also full time. Climate change deniers and tariff increase supporters (Ashbee), an isolationist trilogy defines the relationship of Trump’s United States with the world: no to immigration, trade protectionism and anti-interventionism in foreign policy (Kandel). Trump describes a dysfunctional and declining America. And he presents himself as their redeemer: “God has given us Trump,” proclaims a video from his campaign.
