By FRANCESCO ERSPAMER*
The same people who are now fighting to be able to cry “wolf” once again, to cover up their incompetence and fundamentalism, say: “Donald Trump’s second term will be nothing like his first.”
Who knows why so many Italians are tearing their clothes off over Donald Trump's victory? Could they remind me how the previous presidency would have hurt them?
Covid aside, nothing significant happened in those four years, neither in the United States nor in Italy: certainly not the catastrophes that the liberals had predicted.
The same people who are now fighting to be able to cry “wolf” once again, to cover up their incompetence and fundamentalism, say: “Donald Trump’s second term will be nothing like his first,” they threaten (quote from CNN), admitting, deep down, that eight years ago they were wrong and demanded to be taken seriously, as they do now.
On the other hand, four more years of Bidenism would have worried me.
Especially as an Italian, given that the results of the senseless imperialist policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have led to the war in Ukraine and the consequent inflation that, I suppose, has already been noticed even by an idiot. Not to mention hypertourism, largely determined by the myth of mobility that characterizes the false consumerist and individualist left.
One of the most frequently used insults directed at Donald Trump during the election campaign (for example, by Kamala Harris during the presidential debate and, more recently, by Michelle Obama) is that he has “a backward-looking, backward-looking vision”. Too bad I don’t believe it, otherwise I would have voted for him. But the fake left does not understand and does not tolerate the simple idea of slowing down, stopping or even going backwards; for them there is no alternative but to continue running in the same direction, without asking whether it is the right path.
It is the rhetoric of perpetual growth at any cost, the ridiculous “progressivism” that transformed socialists and communists into banal consumers (of products and technologies, but also of ideas): in short, it is the ideology of the new as an end in itself, a necessary and sufficient condition of laissez-faire and liberal neocapitalism, founded on planned obsolescence, waste, the cancellation of real, countless and local cultures and diversities, not global ones, and therefore excluded from the narrow and restrictive canon Woke.
I do not believe at all that Donald Trump will save the world, in which he seems to have little interest, nor the United States. He is not a conservative, he is not a moralist, he is not a traditionalist, he is not a statesman: in fact, he is a liberalist, like Giorgia Meloni, like Marine Le Pen. That is why I did not vote for him.
But from here to despair at the failure to elect a petty champion of supposed “universal” rights, if not “natural” rights (all originating in the United States, but to be imposed in every corner of the earth) and of individual and individualistic freedom to feel and do whatever one wants, without any social responsibility, is too much.
However, anyone who is truly terrified of Donald Trump can do one thing: reject his military bases and nuclear bombs and fight to remove Italy from NATO. These would be the first steps to emancipating oneself from servility towards a country that elects figures like him.
*Francesco Erspamer and pProfessor of Italian Studies at Harvard.
Translation: Anselmo Pessoa Neto.
Originally posted on the author's social media.
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