Could her categorical victory over her Democratic rival, , open the doors to deeper change in the USA? Or is this change, in fact, already irrevocably underway?
It’s not just about the always-cited autocratic impulse of the elected or the sinister, with which Trump claims to have differences and it’s unclear whether and how it will be adopted.
What is also worth asking is whether the redefinitions of society and the electorate are not projecting some deeper movement towards new political and institutional arrangements. The second wave has the opportunity to shake the traditional configuration of the liberal democratic establishment with repercussions on party representation itself, giving more defined contours to what seemed to some to be an episodic, spontaneous and anarchic populist outbreak in the 2016 victory.
In this sense goes the well-known proposal for a “post-liberal regime”, set out in a recent book by Patrick Deneen (“Regime Change – Towards a Post-Liberal Future”), an influential intellectual interlocutor of Senator JD Vance, now vice-president. elected president of the USA and strong candidate for heir to the throne.
Such a regime, which would be born from the inescapable crisis of liberalism, recently seemed nothing more than an unlikely political engineering, bringing together in the same building proposals that could sound right-wing and right-wing.
Deneen is enthusiastic, for example, about the formation of a party with a labor profile that acts to represent the interests of the working class — abandoned by both the elites of the classic republican right and the progressive ones, linked to their post-modern identity variants. In contrast to globalizing laissez-faire and the logic of winner or loser individualism, a dose of interventionism in the economy is part of the recipe.
At the same time, the professor at Notre Dame University preaches a foundation for social life in community circles and religious entities, encouraging a system of support and solidarity between people and classes. This is what he classifies as “conservatism of the common good”.
Of course, Deneen’s post-liberal regime is an abstraction that is easy to put up in a book and difficult to materialize in practice. This type of discussion, however, does not fail to reveal that there is some method and strategic formulation in Trump’s world — which already controls, for example, the , today a structure at his service, with the consequent displacement of traditional right-wing leaders, many of which found themselves in the position of supporting the Democratic candidate. Where will they go? What to expect from the future of the old acronym?
It is also true that all of this could end, hypothetically, in a major economic fiasco and even in some serious stumble that leads to an impeachment process — for now, beyond any consideration, given the enormous accumulated political capital and the republican parliamentary strength. Or even a retake of ground by the Democrats, if they react to what is happening.
These are speculations at this point, but Trump’s triumphant return, which captures the revolt against the elites, is not a trivial fact in American history.
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