Captain of the anti -ammerics | Ukrainian Truth

The captain of the anti -amateur for the first hundred days of Donald Trump was measured by the economy.

Recession. Tariffs. The world economic crisis. The forty -seventh US president has decided that his country should produce more and sell more – and is ready not to stop at anything. As a result, the world was covered by tariffs, uncertainty and excitement on the exchanges. Economists are looking for parallels with the law of Trouble-Gouli, the presidency of Herbert Hoover and his brainchild-Great Depression.

But the fact is that the « Trump effect » is not just about the economy.

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The US President can really believe that the current situation of the United States is vicious. That the emigration of industries to other countries is unfair. What to be a safety guarantor for allies is a waste. That the US should not buy goods from all over the world, but the whole world has to buy American and pay for protection. His trouble is just because this system has emerged as a result of post -war reality. In which the value of the US labor has increased, the reliability of the American financial system, too, so the whole world has not been invested in US production, but in the bond of the US debt. Just because it was convenient and safe to borrow the United States. Just as living under an American safety umbrella.

Donald Trump can drain this situation. It can quarrel with the whole world for the sake of restoring the status quo. The only problem is that the disadvantages of any system are often a continuation of its advantages. And you can’t nullify what you don’t like without igniting what you like.

After the Second World USA, they ceased to be only an economic giant. They raised the flags of the slogan of global values. They turned into a magnet for those who tried to escape from the oppression of communist dictatorships. At a time when the world became a two -pointed one, Washington became the capital of the collective event.

After 1991, the collapse of the Soviet pole only strengthened this status. Democracy and freedom have ceased to be one of the rabbits – becoming a main highway instead. The world was reminiscent of Comic Con, in which the countries cosped the triumphant and adopted the rules of life. Washington turned into a lighthouse and this lighthouse had no alternative.

Gilbert Chesterton wrote that Rome was not in love with greatness – Rome became great because he was loved. The United States was not in love with jeans and not Coca-Cola-but the « heavenly likeness » of both. Hollywood was easier than any other film industry center. Because it is much easier to sell a myth about the country if your myth has guaranteed buyers.

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The world knew where the Forest Gamp runs – he runs to globalization, freedom and the first dark -skinned president. The world understood why they rescued ordinary Ryan – because Landliz, Marshall Plan and West Berlin. The world saw why cowboys needed – because their inheritance was the right of ownership and the triumph of the law.

From every hero of American literature, from every character of cinema, it was possible to draw a symbolic thread in the present – then to declare this line a route letter to freedom. Titanic characters floated to America Kennedy and Reagan. Indiana Jones searched for the artifacts of the past on the rights of a representative of the bright future. And John McClein was attracted not only by his personal charisma, but also by the scenery of the country, which he saved for Christmas time.

A symbolic image is impossible without the foundation. And in the last half -century, all the symbolic capital of the United States has relied on American reality. In this reality, there were iPhone and democracy, chewing gum and freedom of speech, Chizburger and the struggle for rights. We lived in space, where only 41 years separated Barack Obama from Martin Luther King – and that allowed us to talk about the triumph of the latter. So, about the triumph Harvey Milka and Erin Brokovich, Jango and Aldo Rhine, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers.

From anywhere in the American past, the historical line has been known to us the future-thus providing guaranteed Hepi-end. Any film hero was the forerunner of the present and therefore, even in the event of defeat, he still won in the eyes of the viewer. The symbolic role of the United States was an excuse for all zigzags of its history – giving each of his supporter a life -instead. Instead, the United States now helps the poor. Instead, they protect the weak today. Instead, they are now opposed to dictatorships.

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Now all this in the past.

Donald Trump has broken not only the tradition of public rhetoric. Not just the logic of relations with allies and dictatorships. He also buried all the symbolic capital that his country has accumulated for decades.

The 47th President of the United States cancels USAID and closes the Voice of America. Appoints loyal and releases professionals. It swans to the dictators and raises the voice on democracy. Donald Trump made the decision « going to the cache » – and changes the accumulated doubles of his country’s reputation and authority.

From now on, the United States is a country that votes in the UN synchronous with Nicaragua, Eritrea and Belarus. It announces the whole world that other countries kiss her leader in the ass. It is a country that requires the victim to capitulate in front of the aggressor, so as not to interfere with Washington to do business with Moscow.

Donald Trump has not only released American politics. He at the same time selected the American image of all his « moral correctness. » One that relied on the role and importance of the United States for the rest of the world. The moral correctness that allowed to empathize with Scarlett O’hari and John Rambo, Clint of Eastwood and Martin Riggs.

The grandeur of the United States was built not only on economic power. Its foundation includes trust in American institutes and the image of a reliable partner. The stability of the dollar and the independence of the federal reserve system. Professionalism of bureaucracy and the rule of law. Leadership in international organizations and the public role of guard democracy. All of what the 47th President of the United States refuses today.

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Destroying the symbolic capital for the sake of the economy, Donald Trump stops everything. The American dream is no longer rhymed with ethics. Jeans ceased to be a democracy. The United States lost the role model of the « imitation sample » model. And even if at the next electoral coil the current president gives way to his opponent’s chair, the memory that 77 million Americans have chosen Donald Trump’s course, he will not disappear.

There was a good lighthouse in the world. Unfortunately, he went out.

Pavel Kazarin, for the UP