“Against the background of eccentric and sharp statements and actions of Donald Trump, many people seem that the new US president is some anomaly, a “natural disaster” that you just need to wait. UA.News asked for the opinion of well -known Ukrainian political scientists about it. Trump is definitely not an anomaly, says political scientist, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Ruslan Bortnik. In his opinion, if it”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
Against the background of eccentric and sharp statements and actions of Donald Trump, many people seem that the new US president is some anomaly, a “natural disaster” that you just need to wait. UA.News asked for the opinion of well -known Ukrainian political scientists about it.
Trump is definitely not an anomaly, says political scientist, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Ruslan Bortnik. In his opinion, if it were an anomaly, then Trump would not vote twice, and maybe even three times.
“If Trump were an anomaly, he would hardly be able to run and win in the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections. Three times he thinks. Trump, on the contrary, is absolutely ordinary, natural, natural process and reaction of traditional American society that America, from their point of view, has not moved in the right direction in the last hands. The fact that America was used as an engine for liberal globalization around the world, that huge US resources were spent on left -liberal globalization, on various humanitarian and technological issues related to climate change and ending with an effort to establish a single political system.
All these funds were spent, and at the same time in the United States remained a huge number of unresolved internal problems associated with poverty, poor education, poor medicine, inaccessibility or complex availability of housing related to migration and with a lot of issues that simply destroyed the US from the inside, ”Bortnik explains.
The expert says that in recent decades the United States is reminiscent of a kind of athlete, which of the last forces, the cost of health and even life has tried to push the “globalistic bar”. Of course, this order of things does not suit the traditional US conservative voters.
“Trump believes that US resources should be directed to solve internal issues, to build a” hail of shining on a hill “instead of a” global village. ” And this social request is headed by Trump, who was chosen three times President – well, twice officially, and possibly even three times, if you mention 2020.
That is why Trump’s effort to wait is an effort not to wait for a storm that will pass quickly. It is an effort to wait for the winter that will not pass quickly. In addition, after decades of globalization in the world, there is a right -wing political revolution, a right -wing political revenge. When the world is tired and less and less shares the values of universalization, unification, but more inclined not to build a melting boiler, but an international cooperation on a bilateral base, on the basis of mutual respect, ”Bortnik notes.
The political scientist says that the battle between left liberals and right conservatives can last for a long time, and we do not understand the consequences of it. Try to just wait for it – wrong and just naively. It is necessary to adapt to new realities and get used to working in new conditions, summarized Ruslan Bortnik.
The political scientist, the head of the Institute of World Policy Eugene Magda, also expresses a similar way. He believes that the election of Donald Trump is a logical consequence of those events that have developed in the United States recently.
“Because he has not just become president for the second time. He won the election against the background that it was a third campaign, when they competed in the finals, say, so, candidates of good age. And this indicates that there is no flow of “fresh blood” in the American politicum.
In 2016, Trump was a “fresh blood” when he politically gave the entire republican establishment. And now we see how such a “fresh blood” became Trump and Maga. That is, there is a radicalization of American society, the polarity between radically right and extreme left. It seems that Americans simply do not know their state’s mission, they do not realize what they should become, they do not see the need that there is today, ”the political scientist says.
In this context, according to Magda, Ukraine should observe how the United States is changing. Kyiv has to respond to this in the most appropriate way. And to understand that no one will ever cancel the election in the US.
“That is, American democracy is now experiencing a period of considerable turbulence. We have to take into account and act appropriately and understand, ”Yevgen Magda summarized.
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