A Profoundly Un-American Moment | The Nation

In 2017, I wrote the column for The sacrament of bees By borrowing the phrase from Emil Zola. “J’accuse,” I wrote about Trump 1.0, and then continued to list many ways that Trump and his cohort of lyxspitel make the country more rough, more called in my nonsense.

In Trump 2.0, this is more like a realistic version of Mao’s cultural revolution. In this first month, government workers dominate the scale and at the pace that exceeds those that have occurred even in the macaus. We also witnessed the politicization of justice and security systems; Creation of a shadow government under the guidance of Elon combined with the unlawful admiration of the Doge force; attack on concepts and language that behind, diversity, justice and inclusion, the process of armed weapons, which is increasingly designed to rethink the federal government as a heterosexual reserve of the white man; And the selection – and confirmation – about who is, which of the grifts and extremists in the Trump’s office.

Every day there is another Onion The title that turns out to be a real news. There is a Trump that orders to The Ministry of Justice dissolves your anti -corruption units and no longer obey the Law on Federal Corruption Practice; and there is a title about Trump announces what makes himself chairman of the Kennedy Performing Arts Center– And then, at the really Stalin moment, having received the recently created Board of Directors Unanimously vote for him in position. Trump not only pardoned 1500 violent January 6^you rebels but then forcing it to shoot people involved in the investigation this day and then Clearing their recordings around January 6 without informing the National Archives. I did not even reach it contrary to international rights: now it is the US policy on ethnic gas purification of two million residents to turn it into a upscale resort and office park, as well as to close the US to all fugitives, except for white South Africans.

With the heirs of the Society John Birch and his theorists engaged in conspiracy, which the US government has taken over and seized their moment to release the violation, irrational, authoritarian image in American society, what is the apt phrase for its description? Is the betrayal? Not in the classic sense, because many voters who chose Trump essentially supported their vision of the country. Is it deeply nee -American? Absolutely. It flies in the face and spits in the eyes, from some millions, which have created American history over the centuries. It requires clay and with an iron fist forms it into something really brutal and exclusive.

With Republicans in Congress and State Legislative Bodies, either on the back before the absorption of the Maga party, or completely aboard this absorption, and with the Democrats, paralyzed by fear and hesitation as a result The message that it is in the acts of shock and the entry of this lawless presidency.

This is a deep non -American moment.

While Congress is falling asleep, Trump, Musk, Vens and their supporters of Congress do what the terrorist generations could not do, which failed to do the Soviet Union, which failed to do Japanese, Italian and German armies in World War II. Cut in red, white and blue, and allegedly supporting the first nationalism in America, they beat not only the buildings, but also the poles of the US government and civil society, and expanding not the usual oligarchs JOES, but also the oligarchs of the Bilanner Center. On a scale that would make the participants in Scandal with Kupala President Warren Harding Blush, they open the whole country for corruption and kleptocracy by dismantling anti -corruption units, General State Inspectors. get rid of ombudsmen ethicsand take the obvious What is the place where Foreign policy. Now, similar to Trump’s mafia, includes now includes tells Ukraine What if he wants us to continue his support in the US defend himself against invading Russia into the country, he will need to give the US access to his rare land minerals.

Meanwhile, Musk, the richest man in the world, accumulates a huge number of additional wealth from the November elections. At the end of December, Barron It has been reported that in the last three months, the value of Moscow has increased by more than 80 percent. Now, set as a Trump’s execution and acts as perhaps the most powerful man on Earth, a business assemble states that he will make sure that he will not violate ethics during his Dogeg mission. So, if Musk does not think that he works with the law, then apparently he doesn’t. Who knew that everything worked? Moreover, Mus Financial disclosing information will not be public. Not surprising that scientists are ethics Not impressed.

Dodge hacker-quads under the exclusive control of Elon Musk gain access to the most sensitive financial details of organizations, enterprises (including Moscow competitors) and private citizens. They are destroyed or brought into deep freezing, all government agencies and the prevention of government work without hearing, no contributions to Congress and Public Life Agency for Public Service eventually found that they cannot support services and safety. The final result will be that tens of thousands of government workers accept ransom, and dozens to the steer more likely to be fired. Musk claims you can just “Delete” state institutions and the programs that he as the only referee need to put under the clock The fact that they are essentially political commissioners.

Methodologically, all this resembles a peculiar hostile acquisition of the government function that took place in Iraq when the forces under the leadership of the United States tried to cancel the country, or when the Bolsheviks launched Russia and leaned against the will of the Marxist Revolutionary Revolution, or when Hitler won the election And then the dismantling, the Weimar Republic continued. It also looks not too different to the high -tech version of the speed version of the structural perestroika, which the West regularly imposed to destroy the effect on one country, less developed, over the last half -century. Voters do not understand this yet, but they, as they risk losing the basic social protection, as well as anyone else in this deployment, deeply non-American moments.

The list continues and continues, every crazy act makes the US much weaker or much more vulnerable.

You do not need to be an expert in the Middle East to realize that if Trump really comes to the “reception” of Gaza and force two million inhabitants in the desert of Egypt and Sinai, he will not only make the United States international pair, but it will turn into the country and Americans into Overall, in magnets for each fanatical terrorist group on Earth. How is this perhaps good for American interests?

If Trump really put a squeezed on Denmark to give in to Greenland, or on Canada to become 51^ST The state, it will participate in hostile actions against NATO’s friends – not what seems to be concerned with NATO’s ignoring in improvised negotiations with Putin to stop the war in Ukraine, and it seems to produce the world in the sphere of influence, makes it clear Clearly.

Meanwhile, in the stamp, to impose tariffs on allies and enemies, in a unilateral cut of international trade agreements, painstaking over the years, Trump shows that the US is at best, and in the worst case it is assumed by the enemy.

As a result, Eviscerat USAID Trump has created an international vacuum with a soft power that China and other ascending powers will be too happy to fill, which further weakened America’s global position.

Using a Federal Commission for Communications for pressure broadcasters to the party line and in Construction of Access to the Press White House with AP For refusing to call the Gulf of Mexican as a “Bay of America”, the White House makes a big game to weaken the first amendment. We like to think that freedom of speech is as American as the apple pie. It turns out that those in power do not like apple pie.

When trying to massively reduce state financing vital scientific research, the transition is temporarily released by the courts, in the interest, referring to its base against the examination, sacrificing the country’s main role in medical and other critical scientific research. Again, ultimately, it is music to the ears of China, Russia and any other force that hopes that one day will become the next world hippo in the world.

In October, state health and imposing orders for GAG to what CDC and NIH may not discuss, the administration makes it more likely that the old diseases will burn out and that the new ones will not be detected in a timely manner to stop their distribution.

In the demonization of transgender Americans, immigrants and other groups considered “enemies of people”, the administration attacks the most power of America – its diversity – and its willingness to constantly rethink themselves. Having rejected the decades of progress that has expanded the definitions of the “American” and who deserves the inclusion in American history will not make the country the stronger, but it will certainly make it rigid.

Overall, it is an unprecedented attack on American society and values ​​that intended to undermine the country’s alliances and its civil fabric, one arrogant political processes of democracy, and all likely the basics and replacement of constitutional management of imperial government.

Last month, there was no ordinary rough and rude democratic policy. Also, it was not just a reset that was kept within the constitutional borders, state priorities. With the help of Diktat Executive Director, we see the robbery of the American dream.

As it is said, it is deep, horribly, grotesque non -American moment.

Sasha Obramsky

Sasha Obramsky NationWestern correspondent. He is the author of several books, including American way of poverty. House twenty thousand books. Not surprising: Fairytale Loty Dodd, the world’s first sports superforeand most recently Chaos is calling: The Battle of the extremely right absorption of America in America.

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