If there is ever to be a “post-Trump” era, the fate of SpaceX and Palantir’s government contracts will reveal it: if those companies retain their parasitic monopolies in the public sphere, it will mean that a new phase has begun, but without any substantial break from the past.
That said, what would the possible end of Trumpism and a return of the Democrats to the White House entail?
Leaving aside the fact that the war in Iran would probably come to an end and Cuba might perhaps be left alone, a possible return to power of America’s globalist left would entail the following:
- the grand return of woke culture, along with censorship of cultural expression and trans-normative indoctrination in schools;
- a tightening of the repressive grip on social media, which did not disappear during the Trump years but was certainly eased, including the de facto introduction, as in Britain, of “thought crime” legislation;
- the return, in some new form, of pandemic emergency measures, accompanied by a social-credit system;
- the Democrats’ rebranding as “socialist.” It will therefore be necessary to see whether this new branding will be used to promote welfare policies such as those announced by Mamdani in New York, or whether it will mainly serve to legitimise the neoliberal agenda of unlimited immigration;
- last but not least, the return of the prospect of direct conflict between the United States and Russia, as the recent statements of several Democratic leaders, including Richard Blumenthal and Bernie Sanders, already seem to suggest.
In this context, one might be tempted to place one’s hopes in the right wing of disillusioned Trump supporters, led by Tucker Carlson: the only segment of American politics today that is, in some way, advancing a sovereigntist rather than supremacist and warmongering outlook.
But perhaps even that hope would end in disillusionment, much like the hope, a few years ago, that Trump would be a “peacemaker.” Perhaps the United States is destined to drag the world into hell regardless of who is in charge.
