Goodbye to the liberal elites: Trump’s no savior, but he correctly identified America’s biggest problem, by Glenn Diesen

The money sentence: “Who would vote for four more years when the status quo entails driving off a cliff?”. From Glenn Diesen at swentr.site:

FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump. ©  Brandon Bell / Getty Images

Donald Trump’s election victory should not have been a surprise. The era of liberal hegemony has already come to an end, and a correction was long overdue.

Put plainly, the liberal hegemony is no longer even liberal, and the hegemony is exhausted.

Trump is often denounced for being transactional, yet the de-ideologization of America and return to pragmatism is exactly what the country needs.

Change or preserve the unsustainable status-quo?

The overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the country has been heading in the wrong direction, which placed Kamala Harris – as part of the incumbent team – in an unfavorable position. As vice president, she could not distance herself sufficiently from President Joe Biden’s policies, which meant that she had to own the failures of the past four years. The message of “turning the page” didn’t resonate, and she was left with the meaningless slogan of “joy” – which only demonstrated her detachment from the growing concerns of Americans. 

The borders have been wide open, media freedom is in decline, the government’s overreach is growing, US industries are no longer competitive, the national debt is out of control, social problems and culture wars are going from bad to worse, the political climate has become increasingly divisive, the military is overstretched, while the global majority rejects Washington’s simplistic and dangerous heuristics of dividing the world into liberal democracy versus authoritarianism. Meanwhile, the US is complicit in a genocide in Palestine and is heading towards nuclear war with Russia.

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