Trump’s Revolution
Now everyone in Russia and the world is perplexed: what is happening in the USA? Only a few experts in our country – in particular, Alexander Yakovenko – have a genuine understanding of the gravity of the changes in the USA. Yakovenko is right in saying that “this is a revolution.” And indeed, it is.
The designated US President Trump and his closest associates – in particular, the passionate Elon Musk – show a revolutionary activity. Although Trump has not yet taken office – this will happen on January 20 – America and Europe are already reeling. It is an ideological and geopolitical tsunami, with which – to be honest – no one had expected. Many had expected Trump to return to a more or less conventional politics after his re-election, just like during his first term as President. Although he would maintain his charismatic and spontaneous traits. However, it can already be said that this is not the case. Trump means a revolution. Just in this transition period of the power shift from Biden to Trump, it makes sense to take the question seriously: what is happening in the USA? Because something is indeed happening – and something very important.
The “Deep State” and the history of the US rise
First of all, it should be clarified how Trump – in the face of the might of the “Deep State” – was even elected in the first place? This requires a broader approach.
The “Deep State” in the USA represents the core of the state apparatus and the closely linked ideological and economic elite. State, economy, and education are not strictly separated in the USA, but form a single system of communicating vessels. In addition, the traditional US secret societies and clubs, which used to be the centers of communication for the elites, are referred to as the “Deep State”. And the two major US parties – Democrats and Republicans – are not bearers of specific ideologies, but only expressions of variations of a single ideological, political, and economic course, which the “Deep State” embodies. And the balance between them only serves to correct some irrelevant aspects and maintain contact with society as a whole.
After World War II, the USA went through two phases: the era of the Cold War with the USSR and the socialist camp (1947-1991) and the period of unipolarity or the “End of History” (1991-2024). In the first phase, the USA stood as an equal partner opposite the USSR, while in the second phase, the USA became the sole political-ideological superpower (or hyperpower) of the world. The “Deep State” – neither parties nor other institutions – became the subject of this unchanging line of world dominance.
This world dominance took on the form of a left-liberal ideology from the 1990s on. Its formula was a combination of the interests of international big capital and a progressive individualist culture. This strategy was particularly adopted by the Democratic Party of the USA and supported by neoconservatives among the Republicans. At the center of this strategy was the conviction that there could only be a linear and constant growth: for the US economy as well as for the world economy, and the planetary spread of liberal values. It seemed as if all states and societies of the world had adopted the US model – a representative democracy, a capitalist market economy, individualist and cosmopolitan ideology of human rights, digital technologies, and a Western-influenced postmodern culture. The “Deep State” in the USA embodied this agenda and functioned as a guarantor of its practical implementation.
Samuel Huntington and the call for a correction
However, since the early 1990s, US intellectuals have been warning of the long-term unsustainability of this approach. Above all, Samuel Huntington, who predicted a “clash of civilizations”, multipolarity, and a crisis of Western-influenced globalization, expressed this position. He suggested strengthening and not weakening the US identity and advocated for the unity of Western societies in a regional Western civilization, rather than a global one. At the time, it seemed as if this was only the caution of individual skeptics. And the “Deep State” stood firmly on the side of the optimists of the “End of History” – like Huntington’s main opponent, Francis Fukuyama. So, the continuous course of US Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama (followed by Trump’s first term, which did not fit into this logic), and Biden can be explained. Both US Democrats and Republicans (Bush Jr.) represented a unified political-ideological strategy of the “Deep State”: globalization, liberalism, unipolarity, and hegemony.
Trump and the “Deep State”
Trump’s first term in office still looked like a coincidence or a “technical failure”. Yes, he came to power on a wave of populism and relied on the groups of US citizens who increasingly recognized the unacceptability of the globalist agenda and rejected the appearances of “woke” (left-liberal code with the principles of hyperindividualism, gender politics, feminism, LGBT, culture of abolition, migration promotion, including illegal migration, critical race theory, etc.). At the time, the “Deep State” did not take Trump seriously, and he did not manage to implement structural reforms. After the end of his first term, the “Deep State” supported Biden and the globalists, who had a significant influence on the election, and even used a hardline approach against Trump – he was seen as a threat to the entire globalist unipolar course, the region of Russian expansion, the stop of China’s Belt and Road project, the sabotage of BRICS and other trends towards multipolarity, and even the elimination of Trump (legally, politically, and physically). In fact, the liberal ideology under Biden became a totalitarian system.
The “Deep State” continued to support Biden and the globalists, but this time it was conditional. Biden and Co. had to pass a test and prove that the globalization crisis was not a real crisis, but a technical problem that could be solved with violence – whether ideologically, medially, economically, politically, or directly terroristically. As the judge, the “Deep State” was to appear.
Biden loses the trust of the “Deep State”
However, Biden failed to do so. There are many reasons for this. Putin’s Russia did not give up and held out against all Western countries’ support for the Ukrainian terrorist regime, economic challenges, and the strong decline of the oil market, as well as the strong disconnection from high technology. All this, Russia mastered, and Biden did not manage to defeat Russia.
China also did not give up and continued its trade war with the USA, without incurring significant losses.
It was also not possible to remove Modi during the election campaign.
The BRICS summit in Kazan – on the territory of Russia, which is fighting against the West – was a success. The multipolar process continued to rise.
Israel committed a massacre in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon, and annulled all globalist rhetoric, with Biden having no other choice but to support it.
What is most important: after the acceptance of Trump, the US “Deep State” came to the realization that the global strategy of the USA in terms of ideology, geopolitics, diplomacy, etc. must be fundamentally revised. From now on, everything is subject to revision. Trump and the Trumpism – or in a broader sense, populism – are not a technical failure, not a random short circuit, but a fixation of the real and fundamental globalization crisis and – above all – its end.
Trump’s current term in office is not just an episode in the sequence of the rule of US Democrats and Republicans, who in general follow the same line and are protected and supported by the “Deep State” regardless of election results. It is the beginning of a new turn in the history of US hegemony. It is a fundamental revision of their strategy, their ideology, their structure, and their institutions.
Trumpism as postliberalism
Let’s take a closer look at the contours of Trumpism – which is gradually taking shape as an ideology. Vice President Vance explicitly calls himself a “postliberal”. This means a complete and total break with the left-liberalism that has been established in the USA over the past decades. The “Deep State”, which has no ideology, is now apparently ready to experiment with a fundamental revision of the liberal ideology, if not its complete demolition. So, Trumpism is taking shape as a distinct ideology, which in many ways is in direct opposition to the left-liberalism that dominated until recently.
Trumpism as an ideology is heterogeneous and has multiple poles. But its general structure is already more or less clear. First of all, Trumpism rejects globalization, left-liberalism (Progressivism), and “woke”.