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and they can win elections, govern with relevant majorities and call it, euphemistically, democratic triumph. Jesús Ibáñez, one of the most influential sociologists in the Spanish language, used to start his classes by warning: distrust electoral majorities. They are the result of a marketing political compound of emotions, fears and a state of excitement caused by hatred and the fear of an identity catastrophe. As an example, he stressed: if 100 million flies eat shit, the shit is good, nor is it recommended for human consumption. In other words, convincing citizens to live in hell and promise paradise or eat shit depends on creating the conditions to make it viable.
Donald Trump’s electoral victory cannot be analyzed from a short-term vision. Its success is the result of a strategy born under the umbrella of cold warin the 1970s. It was a concentric attack on the welfare state, social policies and wealth redistribution processes. Globalism and the new right emerged in that period and with greater relevance in the US. Its first objective was to change the criteria that the Republican candidate must possess to access the White House. Private foundations were displacing party strategists and advisors, while figures whose ideology contained a profound criticism of the political system, synthesized in the so-called Vietnam syndrome, gained prominence. Thus, neoconservative platforms were born outside the walls of the Republican Party. His speech was simple, but effective. Faced with a society devastated by the defeat in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, subjected to internal tensions, and moral relaxation, a man willing to make up for lost time was required. The election of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) was not coincidental. It was the result of the strategy designed by think tanks . They would take real power. The following Republican candidates are cut from the same cloth. George HW Bush, (1989-93) George W. Bush (2001-09) and Donald Trump (2017-21) (2024-?). Men without attributes, but vitalists. When faced with any problem they resort to a triad: family, God and country. With their peculiarities, phobias and anecdotes, they unite them with the Democratic Party: anti-communism and considering themselves destined by providence to bring peace to the free world. It is enough to see the coincidence when it comes to applying their policies against Cuba, their support for Israel and their immigration policies. However, the Republican candidates share the idea that they are gifted beings to revive the reviled american way of life or American lifestyle.
Trump’s motto: Make America Great Again (make america great again
), is comparable to the speech proposed by Ronald Reagan in his 1981 electoral campaign. The United States must regain its status as factotum of the free world, then it can consult allies
. Guardians of the West sow fear, identify the dangers and then establish themselves as the only military alternative capable of successfully confronting the enemy. If it was possible to defeat the USSR, Americans must be sure that Trump will defeat China, no matter what: applying tariffs, fueling conflicts, diplomatic crises or through insults and disqualification.
East versus West. Samuel Huntington synthesized the new wars as a clash of civilizations
. Characters like Jeane Kirkpatrick, Irving Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan, Lulu Schwartz, Condoleezza Rice and Clifford May displaced the elephants of the Republican party in the 1990s, taking away their power and decision-making capacity. Trump is the last link, a consequence of a policy of attrition within the party; It is enough to see how a strong man of the apparatus, a former combatant in Vietnam, Senator John McCain III, was ignored until he achieved his political insignificance.
Today, the Republican Party is in the hands of entrepreneurs of cybercapitalism, digital platforms and artificial intelligence close to foundations such as the American Enterprise Institute, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Heritage Foundation or Project for the New American Century. Foresight experts cannot predict anything. There is always the surprise factor. But, without falling into conspiracy theories, in the United States they have been subjecting citizens to neocortical warfare for decades. Eliminate the ability to think until thought is defeated. The objective, his mentors will say, is to paralyze the adversary’s cycle of observation, orientation, decision and action […]; in short, nullify their ability to understand
. How else to believe Trump’s claims? There are the foundations of his triumph. Just two examples: Haitian immigrants eat dogs and cats or Kamala Harris is a communist. Now it is time to connect the dots and expand the neocortical war on the networks. The executor of the plan: Elon Musk. The human condition is in danger and the symptoms do not portend a better future.
