Duration of the US presidential campaign 2016, The Atlantic He warned those who, like the press, Tok Donald Trump “literally, but not seriously”, when, like their voters, they should do the opposite. It was better not to concentrate on the absurd details, but detect a flourishing project behind the scene. A border wall along the Grande River allegedly paid by Mexico, a generalized global commercial war: these policies certainly took the loss of wrestling or reality television, the art of the false show that Trump and his followers adore. But they reflected a deep change in American politics that voters wanted. The time for isolationism had come, destined to restore the greatness of the United States after those stunned in Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrible economic-financial crisis of 2008 and the emergence of China.
Unfortunately, 2024 is not 2016. Trump 2 is not Trump 1: now it is necessary not only to take Trump “seriously”, but also “literally.” The president of the United States has not changed his platform, but this time he is trying to implement it brutally. Going from boxing fight, Trump is dismantling the world order inherited from the end of the Cold War and his determination has shaken the planet.
In fact, Trump was caught in his own trap, forced to retreat tariffs due to the distrust of China’s financial markets and resistance. Certainly, the inconsistencies of the former real estate tycoon are notable, such as the material impossibility of replacing the Great Income Tax with tariffs, their method of calculating such tariffs, or the strange idea or taxing imports of the Antarctic territories. It seems to live in the idyllic world of the 1950s, with giant and integrated factories, but globalization has dispersed production chains throughout the planet, without possible performance.
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