Donald Trump may go, Trumpism will stay

Trumpism will outlive US President Donald Trump: almost all political commentators are saying that—and are worried about. For they are uncomfortable with everything Trump stands for—patriotism, capitalism, free speech, liberty, and hope. Patriotism and capitalism are equated with racism and protectionism, free speech with hate speech, and liberty and hope with white privilege.

It will, however, be very difficult for the commentariat—most of whom are liberal and thus Trump-haters—to disparage and discard everything associated with and initiated by the US President. His economic policies, for instance, which have done so well.

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He has brought a paradigm shift in the political discourse on economy. His performance has been so good that even the<em> New York Times</em>, which is pathologically opposed to him, was forced to concede that “Trump has altered the conversation around the economy.”

In a report on October 24, Patricia Cohen wrote in NYT, “Still, despite one of the worst years in recent American history, the issue on which Trump gets his highest approval ratings remains the economy. It points to the resilience of his reputation as a savvy businessman and hard-nosed negotiator. And it is evidence that his most enduring economic legacy may not rest in any statistical almanac but in how much he has shifted the conversation around the economy.”

She also wrote, “No matter who spends the next four years in the White House, economic policy is likely to pay more attention to US jobs and industries threatened by China and other foreign competition and less attention to worries about deficits caused by government efforts to stimulate the economy.”

This is a big applause from the mainstream newspaper that, shedding even the pretense of objectivity, has exhibited unadulterated hatred and scorn for Trump, who is the greatest leader of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Cohen quoted a businessman as saying that before Trump the exodus of manufacturing jobs “was considered a fait accompli.”

No longer, for the Joe Biden administration would not be able to remain unconcerned about the de-industrialization of America and manufacturing job losses. The slimy, sly glib talkers of Wall Street will not now find it difficult to shift factories from America to China. This worries financial experts who have fattened for decades in persuading industrialists all over the world to shift their manufacturing bases in China.

As I wrote earlier, in Trump “the essence of America… resurrected.” This worries the entire intellectual class, as much in the US as elsewhere. Such is the degree of self-loathing among America’s thought leaders that it is extremely painful for them to tolerate anybody who loves America and its ethos. Hence their hatred for Trump.

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Liberals fear that Trumpism will continue for a long time after President Trump. Since what liberals fear is invariably good, let’s hope that their fears are true..