So the first round seems to go to Trump and those who support him. The antic's of the legal establishment in New York appear to have scored an own goal by bringing Trump to court on what might be judged as minor misdemeanours rather than substantive crimes and given the hysteria the ex president develops in his followers it was never going to fly for them. They are a significant block vote in the next presidential election and irrespective of what he actually does they will forgive him and blame the Democrats for creating as they see it a witch-hunt which then only serves to drive the American electorate further apart into ever more extremist positions.
Isolationism has always been a component of the American psych. Having come in many cases as outcasts from Europe their entrenched reticence of European ideas and their sense of isolation ‘out west’ made them uncomfortable bed fellows and the more recent newly found cosmopolitan attitude to neighbours on the continent, somewhat baffling for the run of the mill Wisconsin who hardly pokes his nose over the State boundary line.
Make America Great says it all to the chap from Idaho. I’m sure Vladimir Putins Muscovite feels the same about Russia as does the citizen of Xi Jinping’s Beijing, we went through the same death throes as the rhetoric spewed out by the Brexiter’s huge misinformation plan took hold.
Alliances are fragile and the great achievement after the Second World War was the American Lease Lend scheme which allowed both the victorious and the defeated to get back on their feet. It came at a cost of course America spent billions being the worlds policeman whilst at the same time cementing itself as trading depository for goods and services and most important of all, a world currency. Now with the rise of China, a more compliant and disciplined nation, dictated to by an authoritarianism the Free World wouldn’t countenance.
So Trump posed the important question “why us”, “why do we have to do all the heavy lifting”.
The sight of the garish, flag waving Trump supporters pumping out xenophobic images is mighty unsettling but is it unexpected. Would we all not qbenefit by a bit of nationalistic tub beating especially in a class riven society like ours where the divisions run very deep and the establishment are emboldened to ignore the needs of the majority. It’s hard to imagine the marching bands of the American proletariat in Downing Street (now conveniently gated off but in my day accessible) wrapped around in Union Jacks blasting out their call for revolution from a bullhorn. We are much removed from the wild west frontier, sedated by centuries of forelock tugging, we even make a fetish out of our docile nature, defining it as genteel and to be admired and therefore we don’t seem to mind as the fabric of the nation is dismembered by the present government.
My distain for the EU came with my disgust at the way the bankers, mainly led by Germany destroyed Greece and the rickety financial pyramid that Goldman Sachs had created for them in one of the biggest financial cons ever manufactured. The collective European banking system were in on the deal and the Greeks were, like embryonic cells in a Petri dish, just part of the stress test that Frankfurt had authorised. So when in the voting booth I voted to leave. The assumption that my vote carried little weight and that the majority of people would vote to stay (David Cameron et al) was confounded by the confusion sown in the minds of the voter by Boris Johnson. Very few people were prepared to weigh through the debates in committee in parliament, who drew on the expertise of experts in the fields of trade, finance, scientific collaboration, regulatory provenance regarding our water purification, statutory impediments to companies like Monsanto, there were so many influential doubters as to how it would work to maintain standards which cost money (the English hate spending money) but were thought of as a line in the sand to the Europeans. Our own companies we distinguished as always brought struggling to the party, preferring profit to the welfare of the people.
The embryonic schism which runs through our country, that of wealth prestige and the old school tie made it impossible to envisage a fair deal once we had left and so it has proved.
So you don’t need a Trump if it’s been established before hand that you can “hand it over to us, we have your interests at heart”
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