The inexorable March of the US presidential election means that America is moving to the next fork in its history. Thus in the debate about how to deal with the pandemic, to mitigate its consequences for the economy and support citizens, there is some invisible common denominator. One way or another, but the denominator remains the question of how to understand America’s greatness, the strengthening of which claim responsibility for the current US President, Donald trump, and his future democratic opponent in the election, Joe Biden.Arguments about the division of America have become common place and has arisen before in American politics with a clear coordinate system in 2016 sensationally broke the non-si Donald trump. However, only when it has split the country crack reached the Holy of holies — the cornerstone principle of American values, American leadership and American greatness.Clearly unnecessary or inappropriate was hanging down the word “again”. Because it seemed to assume that Donald trump intends to return the country to some basics — something that is lost, lost, forgotten.But what period in modern American history, a “Golden age” could mean Donald trump, remained unclear until the end (the era of the war of the North and South to take into account will not, because after all, Donald trump is unlikely to want to return the country of the XXI century for a couple of centuries ago).Rather, in many respects in its interpretation of American values, he acted as an innovator, a pioneer.That is why it is initially met with hostility by not only the Democrats, but the Republican President — George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr., who did not vote for him in the election. That’s why it didn’t want to see at the funeral who had considerable moral authority among Republicans John McCain: family of the late Senator considered that trump simply has no right to approach his coffin.So, what is the understanding of the task of strengthening American greatness and American values by Donald Trump and why it is so abhorrent to his opponents?In international Affairs, is the achievement of a “global surplus” in relations with the outside world, measured exclusively to the dollar equivalent, when America spends less and gets more.Hence the arm-twisting NATO allies with the requirement to increase appropriations in the budget of the Alliance, pressure on South Korea, which allegedly “underpaid” Washington for the American base, the locks not only against China but also against the leading trade and economic partners of the West and the East that are designed to address the trade imbalance and create jobs. Finally, the folding relations with international organizations, which will allow you to save even more. Deliverance from the unprofitable, according to the President of the United States, the fifth wheel of American politics.So, Donald trump has consistently denied the very idea of moral leadership and the global mission of America, which held the rule of both democratic and Republican administrations in the White house.Forms could be different, but the promotion of this idea involves the adoption of liberal values and carrying out “democratization of the world”, often with fire and sword, which itself was costly. But no one questioned the necessity of these costs that were justified by the idea of global leadership of America and the idea that, as a snake discards old skin, the middle East, Asia, Latin America, the former Soviet Union will one day relieve the skin of authoritarianism and become one big democratic world.It was an investment in the future of the world, who leads America, holding aloft the torch of freedom.As for understanding American values in the country, according to Donald Trump it is a kind of optimization of the “melting pot” that America remained for decades, incorporating, in addition to the indigenous white population non-white America.Of course, to completely stop his work, not even such a policy as Donald trump, who once called himself a genius, alluding to its special historical mission. However, what you can try to do is to minimize the amount of “contaminants” in the American pot by building walls on the border with Mexico or curtain for entry of Muslims from troubled countries.My old new York friend, the Director of the Center for middle Eastern studies Alon Ben-Meir, removing the office near the Trump Tower, abandoned their studies of the middle East today, and immediately rushed to write about Donald trump (to hell with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict when collapsing their own country!).In a series of ten articles called “Donald trump as the antithesis of American greatness”, it carefully and methodically, point by point, trying to explain why, from his point of view, a President should be named a superhero of America, and its terminator.Alon Ben-Meir and his associates, apparently, are in a state of severe psychological stress. The stress grows as the realization that Donald trump has any chance after the November elections to stay in the White house for another four years that seem an eternity.When in 2016 it became known that the election has sensationally won the trump, it was also a shock. But then it was a little easier. His victory was treated as a mishap, as an anomaly, after which norm will prevail anyway.In the end, all those who understand the idea of Americaning values otherwise, so I decided: well, I will get through the winter, let’s be patient, we’ll stay this trump, if you can not get rid of it before with the impeachment.But today the resource of patience is almost exhausted, but that seemed an anomaly that has a chance to permanently become the new American norm. For a long time, if not forever. The democratic party is going through a deep crisis and generally carries a more obvious stamp of degeneration.Not surprisingly, the democratic opponent of trump Joe Biden — a politician third political youth, which also has not come, and hardly already will be. And the stories about who was sleeping with in ancient times “sleepy Joe, make his figure at all anecdotal, pushing away from nuclear democratic electorate. To this is added the suspicion that the candidate in US presidents memory lapses that may indicate signs of dementia. So he just opens his mouth, his team is already a feeling of anxiety suddenly blurt out something that would kill his campaign once and for all.In the background are in better shape Donald trump could get the mandate and for a second presidential term. Accordingly, they understand the idea of American greatness will continue the triumphant March across America and around the world.What to do in this situation, my new York friend and the millions of Americans who think like that? Acts trump, sprouting at every step must remind them of the sinister cactus from an old horror movie by Alfred Hitchcock. I recall his story: cactus greedily absorbs a drop of blood accidentally cut his hand and now suddenly speaking in a human voice, begins to grow rapidly and encourages the person to water it with their blood and then, uttering a human voice: “Feed me.”People who understand American values on their own, represent my country the poor gardener, whose blood methodically drink a drop grown cactus the Donald trump.Where’s the exit? In dozens of countries those who are beginning to choke who “don’t like the regime” may at some point say to yourself: it’s time to throw! These piled up and incorporates decades of American “melting pot”.For many very soon, in November, it may be a unique situation the final collapse of the foundations. If you win the election Donald trump.But to bring down America — that would be something new, previously unknown and unheard of, and quite UN-American, given that many in the world just wanted to dump in America.And then, much to blame: in Europe? In China to XI Jinping, to Russia — to Vladimir Putin?In the end, instead of external emigration half of America is preparing to go into internal exile with his rejected understanding of the Americasanskih values and American greatness.
Split American greatness Columnist of “Kommersant” Sergey Strokan about the future of U.S. global leadership
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