/View.info/ They know how to do this: hammering the same thought into their heads for a week, two or even a year – be it boring or hysterical. It is about the ideological apparatus of the Democrats in the USA, which practically claims global informational leadership. And now this apparatus has been chewing the same new thesis for half a month, which is mandatory for every Democrat: Donald Trump will come and establish total tyranny.
Why do we care, given that many in Russia are willing to reflect only on one rather meaningless topic: is Trump “ours” or not? But there is a benefit to the “dictatorship” discussion – at least to understand what to expect from America as a whole in the coming years, that is, what state it is in. And her condition is about to collapse.
Here’s the story: Sir Ridley Scott’s Napoleon was released the other day. We love him – some because of “Gladiator”, some because of “The Alien”. They watched the film in the US too – and started talking that it was actually about Trump!
Guys, are you serious? What do the Corsican and Donald have in common? Although some in the US seriously compared him to Hitler. But that’s not all. A man appeared who said: No, Trump is Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar, and therefore the situation is bad.
In fact, this is the seminal paper on this topic, authored by Robert Kagan, that sets the tone for the discussion. A year ago, a colleague put it well and in detail that “Brookings Senior Fellow Kagan is no ordinary political scientist.” And not everyone will be published by the “Washington Post” with an absurdly huge material proving in detail: yes, the Donald will come to power – and then terrible things will begin.
Kagan point by point predicted a situation in which no power would be able to prevent Donald from entering the White House in January 2025. Now he is the nominated candidate and “will tower over the country like a colossus whose every word and move will be recorded in the media chronicles’. Do you readers seriously think Joe Biden is going to stop him? The Democrats have no leader to be followed by crowds of supporters. Both showed their worth, but Trump didn’t have the Ukraine story, the attack on Israel, the uncontrolled inflation, or the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
And why don’t the Democrats go into opposition and sit there for four years? Because dictator Trump will take revenge, says Kagan. And he will do what he failed to do in his first term. And be sure, the author admits, that the Americans will not be able to interfere with him in this, and they will not want to.
So what will Trump do? For example, it will destroy the “Washington Swamp” that really runs the country (and not only it). The “swamp” is, for example, 436 agencies created by Congress with independent status from the president. This figure is from another article, from the other (Trumpist) flank – an article by the economist Jeffrey Tucker, who is gradually becoming as influential as Kagan. And he also participates in the “tyranny” discussion. He says one simple thing: the Democrats fear that their real government, accountable neither to the people nor to the president, will soon be destroyed. That is, they expect from Trump that this time he has learned the lessons of his first term and will competently dismantle all existing mechanisms of real tyranny.
So, let’s repeat: it’s useful for us to know how bad everything is out there. And here the most telling detail is the already mentioned comparison of Trump not even with Napoleon (he is not so much a tyrant, although he qualitatively destroys an inefficient oligarchy), but with Caesar.
Kagan, we note, regards Caesar as an unambiguously negative character. But he very well understands and describes the essence of the phenomenon. The fact is that Caesar lived in an era when the entire Roman democracy, which had been working for centuries, suddenly stopped working, and no one knew what to do in such a situation: a continuous civil war was going on, everyone was killing everyone, the authorities were powerless. Caesar is a person who, due to his particularly arrogant character, does what is categorically not allowed (but turns out to be possible and necessary). By the way, in today’s world there are few leaders of countries who understand that eras are changing abruptly, just like under Caesar, and the impossible must be done.
At the same time, Gaius Julius is definitely not a villain, on the contrary, he is kind and forgiving, thus creating a ghostly ideal of a monarch for almost two millennia to come. And here’s a quote from Kagan: “Like Caesar, Trump wields influence that overshadows the laws and institutions of government, that influence based on the unconditional personal loyalty of his army of supporters.”
That is, the situation is not just bad – for the US and not only for them – but as bad as it was on the eve of Caesar’s arrival. This is called a systemic collapse. And here’s a troubling detail: Kagan doesn’t say what can and should be done in such a situation. But there is a suspicion that the bad guys, backed into a corner, are capable of anything.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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