The reason why Lincoln was able to lead the newly established Republican Party to stabilize White House , and why did his election trigger such a big rebound in 11 southern states? All this starts with the problem that has been plaguing the United States since its establishment:
should be free or fair?
There are many definitions of freedom and fairness. At the beginning of the establishment of the United States, freedom meant freedom in the states, while fairness meant fairness in the United States.
, represented by the third president Jefferson, emphasizes freedom and believes that states should have greater power to decide the affairs of their states. However, the core of the Democratic Republican Party is planters. Everyone, including Jefferson, has a large number of black slaves in their hands, and the freedom of black slaves has nothing to do with the freedom claimed by the Democratic Republican Party.
, the federal party led by the first Finance Minister Hamilton, believes that a strong federal party should be established above the states to coordinate the resources between states and enable more fair development between states. However, the Federal Party, which advocates priority in the development of industry, believes that the United States should implement large-scale trade protectionism , imposing huge protective tariffs on goods including the United Kingdom and other European countries. Fairness in trade is not within the scope of fairness claimed by the Federal Party.
Fairness and freedom, the Federation and the State, the Federal Party and the Democratic Republican Party, these contradictions were finally resolved in the Philadelphia Constitutional Conference in 1787 by a compromise between the two sides. The Federation was retained, and the power of the states was also largely maintained. Since then, the Federal Party and the Democratic Republican Party have taken turns to rule. When the former is in power, American politics will be more fair, while the latter is more free.
The United States has gone through the first nearly a hundred years in the chaos in the early stage, and during this period, it has experienced the dissolution of the Federal Party, the division of the Democratic Republican Party, the rise of the Whig Party, and finally, the two sides of the showdown have been locked in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
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With the changes in American society, the definitions of freedom and fairness are also drifting. What remains unchanged is that each party has its own representative interest groups.
The core supporter of the Democratic Party is the southern planter, while the core supporter of the Republican Party is the industrial capitalist in the north.
Plantation economy is a kind of agricultural economy after all, it requires stability, and a labor force that is highly bound to the plantation to complete the entire set of work from sowing to harvest. Obviously, what meets their requirements most is that they have no personal freedom and are forcibly bound to the plantation: black slaves.
What the industrial economy needs is flexibility. What the factory owner needs is to flexibly increase and decrease workers according to market demand, which leads to the northern industrial sector requiring a large amount of free labor.
Therefore, the contradiction between the South and the North, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party was specifically focused on one issue: the abolition of slavery.
, which represents the interests of planters, Democratic Party, on the grounds that it was the power of the states to stand up for slavery in disguise.
At this time, Lincoln, an important member of the Republican Party who was recently established, knew that if he and the Republican Party want to succeed, they must firmly represent the interests of the northern industrial capitalists who support them. If they want to win the favor of the latter, they must firmly oppose slavery.
Lincoln took morality as the leader and showed the world his determination to abolish slavery. His actions achieved good results. Both in moral and political interests, Lincoln and the Republican Party achieved great success.
But taking sides is only part of politics, and the other part is compromise. Before the 11 southern states publicly announced their separation from the federal government, Lincoln did not take a heavy hand on slavery. He tried to protect the interests of northern industrial capitalists who supported him in a gentle manner without dying up with the southern planters.
Lincoln was betting that he could be elected through abolitionist claims and maintain a fragile relationship with the southern planters. Unfortunately, this time, the attitude of the 11 southern states was more determined than expected, which eventually led to the American Civil War.
Gilded Age
Lincoln's election directly led to a civil war, which was a miscalculation for the Republicans, but fortunately, the Republican-led federal government achieved a final victory.
Now, the problem that cannot be solved by compromise has been answered through guns and the victorious Republican Party has the right to formulate rules and at the same time formulate a set of definitions of "freedom" and "fairness" that are consistent with their interests.
The core of the Republican economic policy is a free market economy. The government should minimize intervention in the market, make competition more sufficient and economic vitality better release.
However, the free market economy has a scope, which is within the United States. While the Republicans are implementing free market economy at home, they are also engaged in trade protectionism. On the one hand, they impose high tariffs on European industrial products such as the United Kingdom to protect American industrial enterprises from the US market. On the other hand, they also collect taxes on agricultural products exported to European countries such as the United Kingdom, so that agricultural products produced in the southern agricultural areas will be given priority for American industrial enterprises.
After the Civil War, the Democratic Party was suppressed by the Republican Party for a long time because of its black history of "standing on the platform" for slavery. The Republican Party started a "monopolized" White House rule cycle, during which the Republican Party's economic policies were implemented for a long time.
With the economic policy of free competition + trade protectionism + supporting industry, American industry flourished in half a century after the Civil War.
1894, the output value of the United States industrial exceeded that of the United Kingdom and became the world's number one industrial country. This is the "prosperity" of the Republican Party, but this "prosperity" is not complete. To be precise, it only belongs to a few people.
The Republican Party pursues a completely free competition market economy . The result of completely free competition must be that the strong will always be strong, the weak will be weaker, and resources will be rapidly concentrated in the hands of a few people. While American rich people such as Rockefeller , Morgan, and Carnegie won the throne of the world's richest man, most American workers bear heavy labor every day, but can only obtain income that can only survive. ironically, some so-called free workers who work day and night in factories have their actual living standards that are not even as good as those of black slaves in the former plantations.
And that's not all. Enterprises that grew up under the free market economy system advocated by the Republican Party began to form a monopoly after reaching a certain scale. They used their scale advantages to continuously crush market rules, making fair competition impossible to talk about. After the monopoly interest group is formed, it will move towards the last step: controls politics , they lobbied Congress through huge political donations, allowing Congress to pass bills that are beneficial to them.
The strong will never fail, and the weak will never turn over. This is the absurd reality of the economic development of the Republican-led free market to the end.
Democratic Party’s counterattack
As polarization becomes more and more serious and becomes the main contradiction in American society, the Democratic Party has finally found an opportunity to fight back against the Republican Party.
The two-level economic division and political collusion between officials and businessmen have made the American people, especially the working class, disappointed the Republican Party.
With the development of American industry, the power of the working class has also begun to become stronger. The Democratic Party knows that as long as it grasps this force, it can reverse its political disadvantage over the years and overturn the Republican Party to the ground.
The first Democrat to launch a counterattack against the Republican Party was in in New Jersey. This firm-willed "little fat man" was famous for often vetoing the proposals of the powerful and powerful when he served as mayor. Cleveland was elected President of the United States twice in 1885 in 1893. During Cleveland's administration, he attacked the corruption during the Republican Party's administration, and a large number of corrupt officials were expelled from the government. His character of his daring to say no to the powerful and powerful helped the Democrats win the favor of the working class. However, during Cleveland's term, he did not attack the core of the contradiction during the Republican Party's administration: two-level differentiation.
After Cleveland stepped down, the monopoly giants still grasped the lifeline of the US economy. The working class's claims have not received a complete response, which calls on later generations to challenge the Republican ruling foundation in a way that can better satisfy the working class's claims.
From Virginia former Princeton University president Woodrow Wilson was elected as president of the United States in 1912. Wilson can help the Democrats defeat the Republicans and enter the White House, relying on the propositions that are beneficial to the working class, such as " eight-hour work system ", "cancel child labor", and "minimum wages".
represents a new change in the crowd, and also allows the Democrats and Republicans to make different choices between freedom and fairness again, and this choice has directly affected American politics for the next hundred years.
Democrats advocate that the failure of the free market economy will cause two-level differentiation, and the task of politics is to correct this market failure , , so the Democrats emphasize social fairness.
, while the Republican Party believes that excessive government intervention will only disrupt the market and cause losses to the economy, so the Republican Party emphasizes economic freedom more.
Since Democrat Wilson was elected president, the debate on freedom and fairness has ushered in a new climax. Due to the Republican laissez-faire economic policy, the Democrats have occupied public opinion. However, during Wilson's administration, World War I broke out. Under Wilson's leadership, the United States participated in the war and became a victorious country. However, Wilson's efforts to establish a new world order dominated by the United States were not successful, which made Americans who suffered the pain of war again be wary of government power.
After the end of World War I, Republican Harding regained the throne of president. After Harding was assassinated, his successor Coolidge once again used the Republican liberal economic policies to bring the US economy to a new climax.
But the economic hidden dangers laid by completely free economic policies also broke out in a concentrated manner, and the Great Depression, which completely defeated the US economic system, came into being.
The impact of the Great Depression once again calls for the Democratic Party that emphasizes social fairness. Franklin Ross was successfully elected on behalf of the Democratic Party. Roosevelt eased social conflicts through government intervention, and led the United States to win World War II and re-established the world order dominated by the United States. It was not until Franklin Roosevelt President brought the United States to the top of the world that the Democratic Party’s counterattack against the Republican Party that had been completed in nearly a century has achieved a phased victory. But as long as the debate on freedom and fairness is still there, the struggle between the Democratic and the Republican parties will never end.
Actors' "magic"
During the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union, due to fear of the communist thought advocated by the Soviet Union, even if the Republican Party, whose policies are more liberal, had to consider the power of workers and take care of the interests of workers, the difference between the two parties was only the extent of interference in the market.
Time came to the early 1980s. At this time, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was in a critical period of decisive victory. The Soviet Union fell into a stagnation of social development caused by leadership corruption, and the United States was not much better, with economic stagnation, inflation , and the society was seriously lacking in vitality.
Republican Reagan decided to gamble. Reagan was an actor before entering politics, but he only acted in four movies a year. Later, during the election campaign, Reagan told the reason why he did not act in the fifth movie: according to the tax system at that time, almost all his income from acting in the fifth movie was contributed to taxation, so it would be better not to act simply. It would be easier. Reagan used this to prove that excessive government supervision and regulation would seriously curb social vitality.
So after Reagan was elected, he opened the door to tax cuts again. At the same time, he advocated the government to relax supervision and give enterprises greater autonomy. The economic turn led by the Reagan administration achieved results, and the US economy began to gradually recover. With the accelerated decline of the Soviet Union, the Reagan administration's courage to reform became increasingly greater. In order to pursue a larger profit of , , some companies moved factories from the United States to countries with lower labor costs.
Reagan's economic reform helped the United States win another beautiful growth, allowing the United States to defeat the Soviet Union as a complete winner, but Reagan Economics is not "magic". While it plays its role, it has laid the groundwork for the future crisis in the United States. Democrats will also find their own "magic" in the near future. The future bipartisan dispute between the United States is gradually evolving into "magic defeating magic."
Speculator
Since the end of World War II, the throne of the US president has been alternating between the two parties. Republican Reagan has been widely welcomed for leading the United States to defeat the Soviet Union and won Cold War . After his two-term presidency expired, Bush, who was also a Republican, was successfully elected with the help of Reagan's political achievements.
The collapse of the Soviet Union made the United States the only superpower in the world. This transcendent status made the United States more bold when acting: lower tax rates, fewer restrictions and regulations, and deeper globalization.
But in fact, on the issue of globalization, the Republican Party, which has always had a tradition of trade protectionism, does not have the advantage, while the Democratic Party has played the logic of globalization with ease.
Compared with industrial capital represented by the Republican Party, financial capital that supports the Democratic Party is easier to get rid of border restrictions, gallop around the world, and harvest wealth. At the same time, the United States has stood at the top of the global industrial chain through its control of high-end technology.
Democrat Clinton After taking office, he relied on the status of the only superpower in the United States to play globally and easily play globalization. Since the biggest funder behind the Democratic Party is financial capital and technology upstarts, financial capital needs money to flow more freely across borders, while technology upstarts need R&D personnel from all over the world. The characteristics of
are destined to the Democratic Party as an active defender of globalization. At the same time, in order to support the strong R&D needs of Silicon Valley from online talents all over the world, the Democratic-led US government must create a picture of American multiculturalism to the world. Therefore, Democratic politicians have given great tolerance and even condoned the so-called minority groups. "Minority groups do whatever they do" has become a hidden rule in the American society dominated by the Democratic Party, which is the so-called "political correctness."
is backed by the strong financial resources in the hands of financial capital and technological upstarts, and seizes the moral commanding heights with "political correctness". The Democratic Party is only one step away from the throne.
However, while Democratic politicians propaganda to the world that the United States is a "paragraph", the income of middle and lower-class people in American society has not achieved real growth in the 30 years since the end of the Cold War.
In this globalized system dominated by the Democratic Party, the interests of most Americans are actually damaged, which Republicans certainly noticed, but the so-called Republican political elites find it difficult to come up with an effective action program to compete with the Democratic Party.
Let's take a look at the main supporters of the Democratic Republican parties at this time:
The people who support the Democratic Party are financial capitalists, technology capitalists, multinational enterprise practitioners and ethnic minorities who benefit from globalization.
Supporting the Republican Party are industrial capitalists, workers, and middle and lower class white people in the United States.
Due to the globalization dominated by the Democratic Party, the United States' industry has become seriously hollowed out, and an interesting phenomenon has emerged. The richest wave of wealthy people in the United States have become supporters of the Democratic Party, known for taxing the rich, while the working class jumped to the Republican side.
The traditional Republican political elites did not fully recognize this change. They still tried to confront the Democratic Party, who was good at playing politically correct, with a chaotic political program.
Compared with traditional political elites, the real estate developer Trump showed a foresight on this issue. He entered the political arena as a political amateur and passed the hurdles and killed the Democratic political elite Hillary .
Trump's sudden rise is nothing else. It is the populist , which is full of all corners of American society. The middle and lower-class white people in the United States who have lost their jobs in globalization and have lost their voice in the context of political correctness. is already dissatisfied with the current situation in the United States. They urgently need an outlet to vent, and Trump acts as the outlet.
Although Trump has been struggling in the business world all his life, he can tell at a glance that the general logic of American politics is that what the current American society wants is an extreme voice. What candidates need is to tell some voters in an extreme attitude that they will meet all their requirements. This set of methods is not clever, but the United States is very effective at this time.
Trump, a shrewd speculator, completed an almost perfect political speculation with his precise grasp of the American social and political ecology.
Trump, who has been in the presidential position for 4 years, has a clearer understanding of the political ecology of the United States. American society does not need rationality, nor does it need the truth, but only extreme voices.
So after the failure of the 2020 election, Trump resolutely stated that there was fraud in the election. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether there is fraud in the election. Let his supporters believe that there is fraud in the election, which is the most important thing.
In the two years since he stepped down, Trump has never stopped showing off his presence with extreme voices. This behavior is not glorious, but it has to be admitted that it is very effective.
However, Trump ignored a problem: is not the only one who can make extreme sounds.
Seeing that Trump has achieved huge political benefits through extremism, more and more Republicans are beginning to follow suit, and extreme voices are emerging one after another. In the winner-takes-all American society, who will finally compete with the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the end depends on whose voice can resonate more.
The struggle between Democratic and Republican parties has developed for more than a hundred years and has been separated from the initial struggle between freedom and fairness. The two sides are just competing with whose voice is more extreme.
American society has come to this day, and both fairness and freedom have gone away, leaving only a mess under the fierce political struggle.
Gilded Age
Lincoln's election directly led to a civil war, which was a miscalculation for the Republicans, but fortunately, the Republican-led federal government achieved a final victory.
Now, the problem that cannot be solved by compromise has been answered through guns and the victorious Republican Party has the right to formulate rules and at the same time formulate a set of definitions of "freedom" and "fairness" that are consistent with their interests.
The core of the Republican economic policy is a free market economy. The government should minimize intervention in the market, make competition more sufficient and economic vitality better release.
However, the free market economy has a scope, which is within the United States. While the Republicans are implementing free market economy at home, they are also engaged in trade protectionism. On the one hand, they impose high tariffs on European industrial products such as the United Kingdom to protect American industrial enterprises from the US market. On the other hand, they also collect taxes on agricultural products exported to European countries such as the United Kingdom, so that agricultural products produced in the southern agricultural areas will be given priority for American industrial enterprises.
After the Civil War, the Democratic Party was suppressed by the Republican Party for a long time because of its black history of "standing on the platform" for slavery. The Republican Party started a "monopolized" White House rule cycle, during which the Republican Party's economic policies were implemented for a long time.
With the economic policy of free competition + trade protectionism + supporting industry, American industry flourished in half a century after the Civil War.
1894, the output value of the United States industrial exceeded that of the United Kingdom and became the world's number one industrial country. This is the "prosperity" of the Republican Party, but this "prosperity" is not complete. To be precise, it only belongs to a few people.
The Republican Party pursues a completely free competition market economy . The result of completely free competition must be that the strong will always be strong, the weak will be weaker, and resources will be rapidly concentrated in the hands of a few people. While American rich people such as Rockefeller , Morgan, and Carnegie won the throne of the world's richest man, most American workers bear heavy labor every day, but can only obtain income that can only survive. ironically, some so-called free workers who work day and night in factories have their actual living standards that are not even as good as those of black slaves in the former plantations.
And that's not all. Enterprises that grew up under the free market economy system advocated by the Republican Party began to form a monopoly after reaching a certain scale. They used their scale advantages to continuously crush market rules, making fair competition impossible to talk about. After the monopoly interest group is formed, it will move towards the last step: controls politics , they lobbied Congress through huge political donations, allowing Congress to pass bills that are beneficial to them.
The strong will never fail, and the weak will never turn over. This is the absurd reality of the economic development of the Republican-led free market to the end.
Democratic Party’s counterattack
As polarization becomes more and more serious and becomes the main contradiction in American society, the Democratic Party has finally found an opportunity to fight back against the Republican Party.
The two-level economic division and political collusion between officials and businessmen have made the American people, especially the working class, disappointed the Republican Party.
With the development of American industry, the power of the working class has also begun to become stronger. The Democratic Party knows that as long as it grasps this force, it can reverse its political disadvantage over the years and overturn the Republican Party to the ground.
The first Democrat to launch a counterattack against the Republican Party was in in New Jersey. This firm-willed "little fat man" was famous for often vetoing the proposals of the powerful and powerful when he served as mayor. Cleveland was elected President of the United States twice in 1885 in 1893. During Cleveland's administration, he attacked the corruption during the Republican Party's administration, and a large number of corrupt officials were expelled from the government. His character of his daring to say no to the powerful and powerful helped the Democrats win the favor of the working class. However, during Cleveland's term, he did not attack the core of the contradiction during the Republican Party's administration: two-level differentiation.
After Cleveland stepped down, the monopoly giants still grasped the lifeline of the US economy. The working class's claims have not received a complete response, which calls on later generations to challenge the Republican ruling foundation in a way that can better satisfy the working class's claims.
From Virginia former Princeton University president Woodrow Wilson was elected as president of the United States in 1912. Wilson can help the Democrats defeat the Republicans and enter the White House, relying on the propositions that are beneficial to the working class, such as " eight-hour work system ", "cancel child labor", and "minimum wages".
represents a new change in the crowd, and also allows the Democrats and Republicans to make different choices between freedom and fairness again, and this choice has directly affected American politics for the next hundred years.
Democrats advocate that the failure of the free market economy will cause two-level differentiation, and the task of politics is to correct this market failure , , so the Democrats emphasize social fairness.
, while the Republican Party believes that excessive government intervention will only disrupt the market and cause losses to the economy, so the Republican Party emphasizes economic freedom more.
Since Democrat Wilson was elected president, the debate on freedom and fairness has ushered in a new climax. Due to the Republican laissez-faire economic policy, the Democrats have occupied public opinion. However, during Wilson's administration, World War I broke out. Under Wilson's leadership, the United States participated in the war and became a victorious country. However, Wilson's efforts to establish a new world order dominated by the United States were not successful, which made Americans who suffered the pain of war again be wary of government power.
After the end of World War I, Republican Harding regained the throne of president. After Harding was assassinated, his successor Coolidge once again used the Republican liberal economic policies to bring the US economy to a new climax.
But the economic hidden dangers laid by completely free economic policies also broke out in a concentrated manner, and the Great Depression, which completely defeated the US economic system, came into being.
The impact of the Great Depression once again calls for the Democratic Party that emphasizes social fairness. Franklin Ross was successfully elected on behalf of the Democratic Party. Roosevelt eased social conflicts through government intervention, and led the United States to win World War II and re-established the world order dominated by the United States. It was not until Franklin Roosevelt President brought the United States to the top of the world that the Democratic Party’s counterattack against the Republican Party that had been completed in nearly a century has achieved a phased victory. But as long as the debate on freedom and fairness is still there, the struggle between the Democratic and the Republican parties will never end.
Actors' "magic"
During the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union, due to fear of the communist thought advocated by the Soviet Union, even if the Republican Party, whose policies are more liberal, had to consider the power of workers and take care of the interests of workers, the difference between the two parties was only the extent of interference in the market.
Time came to the early 1980s. At this time, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was in a critical period of decisive victory. The Soviet Union fell into a stagnation of social development caused by leadership corruption, and the United States was not much better, with economic stagnation, inflation , and the society was seriously lacking in vitality.
Republican Reagan decided to gamble. Reagan was an actor before entering politics, but he only acted in four movies a year. Later, during the election campaign, Reagan told the reason why he did not act in the fifth movie: according to the tax system at that time, almost all his income from acting in the fifth movie was contributed to taxation, so it would be better not to act simply. It would be easier. Reagan used this to prove that excessive government supervision and regulation would seriously curb social vitality.
So after Reagan was elected, he opened the door to tax cuts again. At the same time, he advocated the government to relax supervision and give enterprises greater autonomy. The economic turn led by the Reagan administration achieved results, and the US economy began to gradually recover. With the accelerated decline of the Soviet Union, the Reagan administration's courage to reform became increasingly greater. In order to pursue a larger profit of , , some companies moved factories from the United States to countries with lower labor costs.
Reagan's economic reform helped the United States win another beautiful growth, allowing the United States to defeat the Soviet Union as a complete winner, but Reagan Economics is not "magic". While it plays its role, it has laid the groundwork for the future crisis in the United States. Democrats will also find their own "magic" in the near future. The future bipartisan dispute between the United States is gradually evolving into "magic defeating magic."
Speculator
Since the end of World War II, the throne of the US president has been alternating between the two parties. Republican Reagan has been widely welcomed for leading the United States to defeat the Soviet Union and won Cold War . After his two-term presidency expired, Bush, who was also a Republican, was successfully elected with the help of Reagan's political achievements.
The collapse of the Soviet Union made the United States the only superpower in the world. This transcendent status made the United States more bold when acting: lower tax rates, fewer restrictions and regulations, and deeper globalization.
But in fact, on the issue of globalization, the Republican Party, which has always had a tradition of trade protectionism, does not have the advantage, while the Democratic Party has played the logic of globalization with ease.
Compared with industrial capital represented by the Republican Party, financial capital that supports the Democratic Party is easier to get rid of border restrictions, gallop around the world, and harvest wealth. At the same time, the United States has stood at the top of the global industrial chain through its control of high-end technology.
Democrat Clinton After taking office, he relied on the status of the only superpower in the United States to play globally and easily play globalization. Since the biggest funder behind the Democratic Party is financial capital and technology upstarts, financial capital needs money to flow more freely across borders, while technology upstarts need R&D personnel from all over the world. The characteristics of
are destined to the Democratic Party as an active defender of globalization. At the same time, in order to support the strong R&D needs of Silicon Valley from online talents all over the world, the Democratic-led US government must create a picture of American multiculturalism to the world. Therefore, Democratic politicians have given great tolerance and even condoned the so-called minority groups. "Minority groups do whatever they do" has become a hidden rule in the American society dominated by the Democratic Party, which is the so-called "political correctness."
is backed by the strong financial resources in the hands of financial capital and technological upstarts, and seizes the moral commanding heights with "political correctness". The Democratic Party is only one step away from the throne.
However, while Democratic politicians propaganda to the world that the United States is a "paragraph", the income of middle and lower-class people in American society has not achieved real growth in the 30 years since the end of the Cold War.
In this globalized system dominated by the Democratic Party, the interests of most Americans are actually damaged, which Republicans certainly noticed, but the so-called Republican political elites find it difficult to come up with an effective action program to compete with the Democratic Party.
Let's take a look at the main supporters of the Democratic Republican parties at this time:
The people who support the Democratic Party are financial capitalists, technology capitalists, multinational enterprise practitioners and ethnic minorities who benefit from globalization.
Supporting the Republican Party are industrial capitalists, workers, and middle and lower class white people in the United States.
Due to the globalization dominated by the Democratic Party, the United States' industry has become seriously hollowed out, and an interesting phenomenon has emerged. The richest wave of wealthy people in the United States have become supporters of the Democratic Party, known for taxing the rich, while the working class jumped to the Republican side.
The traditional Republican political elites did not fully recognize this change. They still tried to confront the Democratic Party, who was good at playing politically correct, with a chaotic political program.
Compared with traditional political elites, the real estate developer Trump showed a foresight on this issue. He entered the political arena as a political amateur and passed the hurdles and killed the Democratic political elite Hillary .
Trump's sudden rise is nothing else. It is the populist , which is full of all corners of American society. The middle and lower-class white people in the United States who have lost their jobs in globalization and have lost their voice in the context of political correctness. is already dissatisfied with the current situation in the United States. They urgently need an outlet to vent, and Trump acts as the outlet.
Although Trump has been struggling in the business world all his life, he can tell at a glance that the general logic of American politics is that what the current American society wants is an extreme voice. What candidates need is to tell some voters in an extreme attitude that they will meet all their requirements. This set of methods is not clever, but the United States is very effective at this time.
Trump, a shrewd speculator, completed an almost perfect political speculation with his precise grasp of the American social and political ecology.
Trump, who has been in the presidential position for 4 years, has a clearer understanding of the political ecology of the United States. American society does not need rationality, nor does it need the truth, but only extreme voices.
So after the failure of the 2020 election, Trump resolutely stated that there was fraud in the election. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether there is fraud in the election. Let his supporters believe that there is fraud in the election, which is the most important thing.
In the two years since he stepped down, Trump has never stopped showing off his presence with extreme voices. This behavior is not glorious, but it has to be admitted that it is very effective.
However, Trump ignored a problem: is not the only one who can make extreme sounds.
Seeing that Trump has achieved huge political benefits through extremism, more and more Republicans are beginning to follow suit, and extreme voices are emerging one after another. In the winner-takes-all American society, who will finally compete with the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the end depends on whose voice can resonate more.
The struggle between Democratic and Republican parties has developed for more than a hundred years and has been separated from the initial struggle between freedom and fairness. The two sides are just competing with whose voice is more extreme.
American society has come to this day, and both fairness and freedom have gone away, leaving only a mess under the fierce political struggle.
