(China News Service) "Trump Era" has ended, but "Trumpism" is far from exiting
Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 20th, title: "Trump Era" ends, "Trumpism" is far from exiting
Chinanews reporter Liu Xu
On January 20, Eastern Time, US President-elect Biden will succeed Trump as the 46th President of the United States.
On the afternoon of the 19th local time, the White House released a video of Trump's farewell speech on the occasion of leaving office.
In the video speech, Trump detailed his "transcripts" of the past four years, including the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel, the development of a new crown vaccine, the creation of a "space army", and the construction of the US-Mexico border wall.
He particularly emphasized that he did not launch any foreign wars during his tenure and regarded the economic recovery as credit.
On January 20, 2021, local time, Washington, United States, Trump left the White House early. He and his wife Melania took the "Marine Corps One" presidential helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base.
External comments pointed out that Trump's farewell speech still showed a full "Trump style", but public opinion did not "buy it."
The National Broadcasting Corporation article stated that Trump neither built a wall nor had strong economic growth when he left office. Apart from division and violence, he left no political legacy.
"His slogan is'Make America great again', but the final image of his tenure is by no means great." The BBC commented that in 2016, Trump ran for president as an "outsider", saying that he would change the politics of the time. order.
Four years later, as norms and traditions continue to be broken, and the president’s expectations of behavior are constantly being subverted, the US government when Trump left has fundamentally changed, and it can even be said that it cannot be reversed.
On January 19, local time, in Washington, the capital of the United States, the inauguration ceremony of the 46th President of the United States was ready.
The picture shows the National Mall in Washington full of flags.
Tian Feilong, associate professor of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics School of Law, said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that Trump’s farewell speech was the last performance of his usual political style, and he did not sincerely summarize the gains and losses of his four years in power.
In his speech, Trump condemned the riots on Capitol Hill. "When he found that continuing to incitement and support these people would bring him political danger, he immediately chose to abandon them. This actually shows that Trang. Pu’s political speculation."
"After giving his farewell speech and moving away from the White House, Trump retired as the President of the United States, but the'Trumpism' remained." Tian Feilong said that the so-called "Trumpism" was created by Trang A political orientation formed by a series of major domestic and foreign policy adjustments during General's tenure. It contains the political background of "anti-Federalists" and the polarized political positioning of right-wing populism, and it also carries "America first". Hegemony and nationalist economic policies and new hegemony concepts.
It can be said that "Trumpism" has changed the basic strategic framework and position of the United States in handling Sino-US relations, alliance relations, and globalization.
"What we need to pay more attention to is not Trump's stay or stay, but the solidification and long-term influence of Trumpism."
On January 20, 2021 local time, Washington, USA, Trump boarded the "Marine Corps One" presidential helicopter.
Tian Feilong reminded that even though Trump has left a "troubled" mess for his successor through "retiring" and launching a trade war during his tenure, we cannot simply criticize Trump for bringing about After the multiple divisions between the United States and the world, he was only the discoverer and plan provider of the established divisions in the United States. The root of the emergence of "Trumpism" still lies in the crisis of American society itself.
Teng Jianqun, a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies and director of the American Institute, also pointed out in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that the social ecology of the United States has changed for a long time, and the serious tearing of American society is an important background of Trump's ruling thinking.
"From another perspective, Trump used his own understanding to prescribe a prescription for this torn American society, but his'politicization of business minds' and conservative moral passion failed to extinguish the fire of division. On the contrary, It is to fan the flames and add fuel to the fire, which has caused both US interests and democratic norms to no longer allow Trump to operate in the extreme of'Trumpism'," Tian Feilong said.
As long as the problems in American society still exist, "Trumpism" will have a breeding ground.
"'Trumpism' is a new element of American politics that does not depend on whether Trump is re-elected or not. It has shaped a new kind of American political discourse and consensus." Tian Feilong reminded American voters that "there is no special Trumpism" is a political legacy that the Biden administration must respond to and deal with, and it is also one of the political challenges and pressures it faces.
"In short, Trump is just a'prescription'. Political criticism and clean-up of prescriptions cannot replace the diagnosis and response to the real problems and contradictions in the United States." Tian Feilong emphasized that the US democratic reconstruction does not end with criticizing Trump, but precisely Take it as a negative model and the beginning of reflection.
If the Democratic Party stays the same, the liberal pluralism in internal affairs will continue to allow the collapse of internal values and the deepening of inequality, and the liberal imperialism in global governance will continue to pursue unified imperial hegemony and excessive subsidies for the high cost of imperial governance. The imperial pathology will not only not resolve, but will further disease.
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