Trump’s Victory Inaugurates the Postliberal Era
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Trump’s Victory Inaugurates the Postliberal Era
Gladden Pappin analyzes how Donald J. Trump toppled a corrupt liberal regime, and what his Administration means for Western civilization.
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Since 2016, two leaders have stood out from the pack, challenging the liberal mainstream and calling for strong nations based on sovereignty, national interest, secure borders and peace.
For the last four years, Prime Minister Orban has been demonized for maintaining that political friendship with Donald Trump. But this approach has proven to be the correct one and, beginning on January 20, the United States and Hungary can once again cooperate in the defense of Western civilization.
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Trump’s sweep of the so-called Blue Wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — coupled with strong support from minority groups, men and young people — is a rebuke of the year's long campaign to delegitimize the concerns of Trump voters.
How did we get here?
During the last four years, the Biden administration inflicted untold harm on America’s international reputation, the integrity of its borders, the situation of public safety and even the sense of shared democracy. In each of these areas, Democrats assumed that they could exclude Trump and his supporters from the realm of polite company and from American political life as a whole. After changing the laws to enable their supporters to vote “more easily,” Democrats apparently thought that they could rule with impunity over a powerless American public.
But over the succeeding years, it became clear that the Biden administration had no plan for building American success and prosperity, or maintaining the American position in the world. Whereas Democrats had claimed that Trump was a destabilizing force on the world scene, the world quickly fell apart, beginning with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Since then, everyone has suffered from the high prices that have followed this destabilization.
Heading into the election, polls showed that 75 percent of Americans felt that the country was on the wrong track. Yet to win, Trump needed to convince a broad segment of the American population that they would be better off under his administration. This call ended up receiving the support of one of the broadest political coalitions in modern times. Even though Trump had been branded as a “racist” for years, a majority of Hispanic men voted for Trump, and Trump also achieved his best score among blacks (particularly black men), in spite of running against a black woman.
The Harris team had touted its selection of Minnesota governor Tim Walz as a brilliant pick, intended to bring a “folksy” charm (covering over Walz’s aggressive left-wing agenda). Voters saw through the deception, and the Midwestern states that have suffered from deindustrialization and despair went with Trump and his Ohio-born running mate, J D Vance.
Trump’s first administration was marred by his lack of loyal personnel. Since he had just taken over the Republican Party, he had few people with him, and was surrounded by backstabbing, leaks, betrayals and refusals to implement his decisions. After the 2020 election loss, numerous groups formed to train and recruit potential new members of the next Trump administration.
At the same time, many anti-Trump neoconservatives left the Republican Party. The environment among political staff in Washington, DC, has shifted strongly toward Trump among Republicans.
The Biden administration made ordinary people feel that they were the target of an aggressive regime that sought to change the traditional nature of everyday life. During the height of the Biden administration’s “woke” regime, the LGBT ideology was in the ascendancy, and families following traditional lifestyles were made to feel excluded and strange. Major corporations leaned heavily toward the “woke” agenda, turning summertime into a never-ending “pride parade,” while pushing bizarre practices like the use of personal gender pronouns (“she/her”) across elite American institutions.
The excesses of the Biden administration caused a precipitous fall in US military recruitment. It caused conservative Americans to move out of failing liberal states such as California and seek a better life in stable, prosperous American states like Texas and Florida. The liberal elites of the Biden administration began to look completely out of touch with the concerns of ordinary life.
Recall that during the 2020 campaign, Biden mostly sat in his basement (due to the COVID restrictions), delivering messages by Zoom. Harris and Walz also never developed a successful “vibe” on the campaign trail, whereas Trump’s rallies were consistently packed—often three or four times per day in different locations throughout the country. In spite of suffering two assassination attempts, Trump was determined to let nothing get in the way of his spending time with ordinary people.
What does a Trump administration portend, both in American politics and internationally?
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