The sexual victory of Donald Trump in the election of the president of the United States has a deep ideological meaning. Looking back in the short term, 2016 is the key year, eight years ago. At that time, British nationalists won the Brexit referendum and Trump did so for the first time in the United States.
The so-called “populist right” in the Western world began a process of growth in the West, but at the same time it meant that populist culture entered the Anglo-Saxon world for the first time in history
Just as from the end of the 18th century in the Anglo-Saxon world the so-called “liberal democracy” was an example, in the Latins, Germans and Slavs, political instability and persistent populist, dictatorial and even totalitarian experiences showed a lack . permanent adherence to the “liberal democracy” and populist movements of diverse ideological origins.
The Anglo-Saxons were the best means of global strategic statements to defeat Napoleon at the beginning of the 19th century, to defeat the main empires in the First World War, the totality of the -Europe in the Second World War, communism in the Cold War, and keeping the terrorism inside. of Islamic extremism in the early years of the 21st century.
This is no longer the case and Trump’s victory, as well as his strength and legitimacy, is evidence of this.
But this phenomenon occurs in a wider historical context, which leads to the crisis of liberal democracy in the Western world. Dissatisfaction is spreading throughout it and social inequality seems to be the main reason. This has been evident in the recent US election. The economy is not bad, but the feeling of inequality generates discomfort in the popular sectors and the middle classes.
This is perhaps the main reason for the turn of the popular sectors, both in the United States and in Europe, towards a strong conservative ideological agenda that is opposed to the middle classes who usually maintaining their adherence to liberal democracy.
The argument of people like Donald Trump about this problem is that the political system of liberal democracy, which arose two and a half centuries ago from the American and French revolutions, today has become outdated in the face of the changes big things that have happened in society. and the world of technology, which is changing lifestyles, values and approaches to politics.
Faced with this phenomenon, the academic world of the Western world is delaying debates, discussions and necessary research on this urgent and transcendental problem. The conservative public has had several election shows that have just been in the United States, both in Europe and in Latin America. It is worth mentioning that the candidate Jair Bolsonaro in São Paulo, the most populous city of the American continent, won the second round with 60% of the votes a few days ago.
Right-wing populists have shown more efficiency than progressives in navigating the world of technology. Elon Musk is probably the most important figure in this field and is expected to be in the future. He is a man who is 54 years old and Trump is 78. This businessman, who is the richest in the world, is probably the one who has the most pressure on the right populist about the future world.
In July he announced, before the US government and NASA, that a spacecraft from his company was going to reach Mars in 2026, that an astronaut would do so in 2030 and in the following years he expects build a permanent human settlement here. planet It may sound like science fiction, but it is a project that is already underway.
He has several companies, such as Starlink in the world of satellites, Tesla in electric cars and X in the world of social networks. Also companies in the field of health, which are experimenting with issues such as inserting microchips into the human brain.
Today, companies or enterprises such as The Boring Company, which build underground roads, are being used experimentally to test construction on Mars. But SpaceX is perhaps his most important company in terms of space visibility and vision for the future.
This is actually the thinking and ideology in the movement and development of the populist right, which has taken over technology and the future. This has left progressives and defenders of liberal democracy on the defensive and without long-term proposals. Today they are the defenders of the status quo. Another agenda that transcends the formalism of representative politics is perhaps the greatest challenge to those who defend liberal democracy.
The wave of the populist right, which represents the strong influence of Trump, will only stop in the field of ideas and for this it is necessary to create a different horizon. Perhaps the struggle between liberal democracy and illiberal democracy is fundamental to confronting this problem. It should be remembered that Milei repeatedly said during his two years of campaign: ““I am Trump, Bolsonaro and Spain’s VOX party.”
Rosendo Fraga is Director of the Union for the New Majority Research Center
2024-11-07 22:38:00
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