Trump is on a mission to reorganise United States, world to his liking

US President Donald Trump is a unique man. He is self-assured and stresses a “Me” philosophy that upsets some people. He is not what the 55 men from 12 states in the 1887 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia had in mind when drafting the clauses on electing presidents. Anti-democratic and protectors of elitist privilege, they still had to balance competing state interests in deciding everything including the contradiction between professions of freedom and the practice of slavery. Creating the Electoral College, dominated by the elite from each state to determine who the president would be gave them comfort that the wrong man would not succeed. With George Washington slated to be the first president, they were sure that political unfits would not be anywhere near the presidency. Trump, a convicted felon, has proved all of them wrong by recapturing the presidency.

The second man to recapture the presidency after losing it, Trump believes he is on a God given mission to reorganise the United States and the world to his liking. He has imperialistic desires to re-grab Panama, make Canada a state in the United States, and snatch Greenland from Denmark as part of his scheme to make America great again. In doing so, he is likely to be enlarging both the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary by bringing the West under his thumb. In the emerging Trump Doctrine, the world would be divided between the Geopolitical West and the Geopolitical East. Russian strategists, such as Alexander Dugin, seemingly accept this likely world division and call their possible zone ‘Eurasia’ that starts from Eastern Europe stretching eastwards to Asia. Having failed to get acceptance in Western Europe, the Russians would like to secure Eastern Europe as a security frontier as they concentrate on the massive Eurasia as their geopolitical zone. This Russian thinking fits neatly into the rising Trump thinking of forcefully turning Western Europe and the Americas into his “Me” ‘America.’

Trump is associated with ‘the New Right’ movement in the West. It is ‘nativistic’, anti-foreign, and desires to maintain the West as a pristine ‘garden’ in which those people who are not white should be kept out. Those to be kept out are often former colonial or imperial subjects, used for doing menial work, and never expected to aspire to be policy makers anywhere. The problem for the New Right is that the children of such people, former colonial and imperial subjects, had already penetrated the socio-economic and political systems in the various ‘gardens’ that they learned the systems so well that they acquired leadership positions. This penetration is evident in Canada where people of real Indian origin became minsters, in Britain where Indians and Africans lead the government and political parties, and in the United States where Indians aspire for high political office and a Kenyan, Barack Obama, captured the presidency. To a large extent, this socio-political penetration of the ‘garden’ by the imperial/colonial subjects is the reason for the rise of the New Right in the Conceptual West.

The New Right is therefore a reaction to the reality that the imperial subjects no longer acted like ‘loyal and obedient servants’, they were inside the imperial centres, helping to determine and shape policies. The New Right was therefore a racial reaction to the reality that the ‘garden’ was not as ‘pristine’ as some people would want it to remain and still have power to rule the rest of the world. Obama, for instance is the reason that Trump ran for office in 2016, claiming that he wanted to Make America Great Again; a seeming euphemism for making the White House ‘white’ again.

In less than one month of retaking the White House, Trump has deliberately managed to upset some countries while pleasing some. Russia observes silently from far and waits for opportunity to act in its interests. To the extent that many are uncertain of what Trump is likely to do in remaking both America and the world, he is happy. He is achieving his dream of being the centre of world attention. His stress on being “Me” everywhere is working.