Inside the Trump victory

Mangshir 25, 2081

Pramod Mishra

Inside the Trump victory

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Trump's victory has shaken world politics. Even mainstream American conservative thinkers and some establishment Republican leaders are not happy. Liberal Democrats were left reeling from Trump's loss of Kamala Harris. A person who has no control over his speech.

Who has been proven misogynist by both his words and actions. Many women have accused him of sexual misconduct and have been fined millions of dollars by the courts. who was convicted by a jury in a criminal trial. The 240-year-old tradition and history of uninterrupted peaceful transfer of power in the world's oldest democracy, which elevated its violent racist supporters to attack the Legislative Congress, sabotaged it, in order to maintain its power. There was a case against him for this. How did the great American people make such a person win for the second time, not only by the 'collegiate' vote like in 2016, but also by the popular vote of the people?

In 2008, I remember a top official from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and a learned friend from Nepal expressing the same suspicion in Kathmandu. said, "Where will Obama be allowed to be the president?" The same American people who twice won the son of a Kenyan citizen father who was born in the US but has a strange name for the general American society like Barack Hussein Obama. But the same American electorate won twice over someone who is as morally depraved as Trump and has been found guilty in 34/34 cases by a jury made up of his own citizens. Not only that, despite defeating capable women like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

How will the world understand America's contradictions? Trump's victory has created confusion about the American people and America itself.

Trump's victory and Kamala Harris' defeat are interpreted by Trumpist Republicans and Democrats in their own way. But people from both these camps and independent commentators agree on the four 'E's. They are - Inflation, Immigration, Identity Politics and International War (Israel-Gaza and Ukraine-Russia wars). Even

. Although the US economy and the New York stock market were doing well, the public was suffering from inflation. Immigration chaos has been seen along the border with Mexico. Hool's Hool people came from many countries of the world and were allowed in by Biden. Despite her responsibility to watch the boarder, Harris did nothing. The Trumpist right-wings, like the right-wings of other countries, began to shout on vlogs and social networks along with Fox TV that "America has sunk, the country is full of criminals from the world, we have lost our identity and culture, America would be finished by the Democrats".

Although America is a country of immigrants, until 1965 only people of European origin were allowed to immigrate here. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act through Congress, on the one hand restoring civil rights including voting rights to the descendants of slaves of African origin, and on the other hand, by introducing immigration laws, he opened up immigration from countries other than Europe based on efficiency and family reunification. As a result, the descendants of the enslaved, the indigenous Native Americans, and some non-Europeans began arriving in America, in addition to people of Hispanic descent from the western states annexed by the 1848 treaty with Mexico. About seventy percent of Americans are now counted in the census as white, with the rest black. By 2050, it is estimated that others will outnumber people of white or European descent. Which seems to have an invisible effect. This is what the Trumpists are doing.

Similarly, the American society has been affected by the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars for the past one year. On the one hand, the Ukraine-Russia war attracted billions of dollars in money and weapons, while the Israel-Hamas war agitated American society, especially Muslims and college students. Biden-Harris was in favor of the war, while Trump was against it. The youth and the Muslims here also did not vote for Harris. However, limiting Trump's victory to these external factors leaves a holistic understanding of it incomplete. For that, the historical cultural and psychological complexity of American society has to be looked at.

Trump has emerged as a white supremacist and masculinist wealthy messiah. But not only that. Trump is a character who rose to politics from a TV reality show. Ronald Reagan emerged on the political scene fifty years ago as a Hollywood actor, while Trump emerged from the popular culture of television. In which his flamboyant image of Dhankuwer (billionaire) was also embedded. There are a few billionaires like Warren Buffett in America (who earns wealth by keeping away from the hustle and bustle and consumes that wealth for public welfare). Trump is the polar opposite. Gold commode, gold basin, marriage with fashion model and cinema heroine, Besomat's Dangdung dialect, Churtifurti, Fainfutti. This nature is also intertwined with his gambling casino and five-star culture and real estate brokerage (deals).

White supremacist Trump

In 2016, when Trump won the presidential election for the first time with the collegiate vote, the extreme right wing of America rose up. Among them, various groups of white racists held a rally in Charlotteville, Virginia, with the slogan "Jews will not displace us." An anti-racist white woman was also killed in the clash. President Trump made a statement that "there were good people on both sides." did not criticize. But decades before that statement, in 1973, Trump's company was sued by the federal government for housing discrimination. What this means is that Donald Trump is considered their savior by white supremacists in America.

Although they don't talk openly about racism, in the name of nationalism, in the name of preserving national culture, they have encouraged white supremacists by using half language or white supremacist sign language. It has served to stir up racism that normally lies dormant in some white communities. Before 1934, even after Hitler's arrival, general Germans were still following Hitler's National Socialist Party, against Jews and Roma. Even in America, white supremacist groups are very excited by Trump's victory. But this time, the majority of Hispanic, black and Asian men also voted for Trump. This is where the puzzle of Trump victory has become more complicated.

Masculinist Trump

Trump's masculinity is reflected in both his words and actions. He was accused of sexual violence for the first time before the election. He was also sued. He was also sentenced to pay a fine. The dirty things that misogynist men do about women were made public before their first election. But all the accusations against him slipped away in the eyes of the public, like rain on the leaves of Pindalu. He won the election. Even most white women voted for him, in both elections. This shows that women are more attracted to ethnic and gender (alpha male) masculinity than femininity. But this year, Hispanic, black, and Asian males also voted for Trump in large numbers. The Democrats' campaign platform, led by Kamala Harris, embraced women's freedom over sex and abortion with the slogan 'My Body, My Choice'. The ``MeToo'' movement curbed both white and black men, who had been nurtured for centuries in the patriarchy of ``Your body, my rights''. He also voted for Trump's masculinity as his Hispanic, Asian, African savior. Masculinity was found to be more attractive than race to black men.

On the other hand, Kamala Harris is not only a woman, but also a child of immigrants on both sides - her father is a Jamaican of African origin and her mother is an immigrant of South Indian origin. At least Barack Obama's mother was a white woman from Central America. Obama was a grandson, a nephew of whites. Harris is not white, neither male nor white. It also got a lot of votes.

Cultural trumps

But this seems to be the most important cultural thing. America is a country of the free, founded on the foundation of freedom. The strong side of freedom is liberation and creation. So far, the US president has been a dark personality, deeply influenced by the Bible, Western civilization (Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian). Although Reagan came from a Hollywood background, his language had a strong imprint of the founding Puritans. Although Lincoln was born in a log cabin and did not attend school, but grew up as a manual laborer on someone else's farm, his language, personality and word choice were inspired by the Bible and profound literature. But Trump's language is very rude. 

The other side of freedom is freedom. Trump is the epitome of this. Because Trump is a flamboyant tycoon, who deals in gambling and enjoys sports like professional wrestling (ultimate fighting) and boxing. Alcohol, gambling (casinos), strip clubs, sex videos (pornography) and sex material buying and selling, and sex scandal TV shows to make money by boosting ratings and making money from the subsurface culture that remains in America has never been out in the open. There was no attempt to enter the White House. John Kennedy's romantic relationship with Marilyn Monroe remains a romantic, mysterious and glamorous story. Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky led to accusations of Republican puritanism. But with Trump's victory, this culture has openly found mainstream political expression in its vulgar form. Because Trump is a representative character of this culture in mind, words and actions.

Even in the selection of his staff and cabinet, the sex scandal has become the main news of the media so far. People are worried about how much damage his cabinet picks will do to American institutions. But while saying this, we must not forget that the American people (as stated in the Preamble of the Constitution, 'We the People') have been given the right to freedom by the Constitution. The American people have used that freedom, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad, according to time, period, leadership, and circumstances. America's Founding Fathers (Founding Fathers) created the Constitution following domestic, foreign world ideals, Lincoln sacrificed his life, won the Civil War, freed the slaves, and provided rights. Lyndon Johnson restored civil rights for blacks and opened up immigration. Trump is not a world ideal, he has become president for the second time by imbibing anger, rage, hatred, prejudice, narrow-mindedness, malice and revenge. His cabinet and staff selection seems to be the same.

But if we should remember, almost fifty percent of the American people voted against Trump. It remains to be seen what will happen to their ideals and ideals in the next four years. America is not completely broken. If Trump challenges America's habit of clinging to its ideals and forces it to introspect, that will also be an achievement. 

Pramod

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