The Post-American New World Civilization after Trumpism
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 () Donald J. Trump exploits the super power of the U.S. (by virtue of holding the presidency) and uses it to skillfully but desperately play with the hopes and fears of people in the socio-political world of our era in 3 major ways (i.e., market-capitalist vice, liberal democratic dysfunction, and American imperialist decline). The important point to remember is that the phenomenon of Trumpism reflects a historical infection point from the last stage of Pax Americana to a rapidly changing post-American new world order, ultimately unto the direction of "post-capitalism" and "post-democracy" in "post-civilization" around the "Asian 21st century" and beyond. 1st Way of Manipulation: Trump's Greed, and the Market-Capitalist Vice The first way of Trumpism to manipulate hopes and fears in our era is that, contrary to political correctness in Western mainstream mass media, Trump's greed reflects the market-capitalist vice which elevates "greed" as "good," as fashionably portrayed in the 1980 film "Wall Street." The central obsession of Trump's professional life is with "money, money, and money," as Trump himself said (in a January 2016 rally): "My whole life I've been greedy…I've grabbed all the money I could get. I'm so greedy. But now I want to be greedy for the United States." In this sense, Trump's economic modus operandi is based on a ruthless greed-based tool of extortion and bullying. For instance, in trade, he uses "tariffs" against the rest of the world -- both friends and foes alike. He blames the massive U.S. trade deficits on the rest of the world, just as a consumer would blame a supermarket for his transaction deficits because he buys from the supermarket but the supermarket does not buy much from him. Trump's solution is to extort as much money as he could from the rest of the world by imposing tariffs on each of them, hoping that his "beg your neighbors" tariffs would eliminate or reduce U.S. trade deficits. This is the classic trademark of a greedy bully with no moral scruples for fairness or reasonableness, to the point of criminality (with a wicked sense of pride, as he is a "convicted criminal," after being convicted of 34 felonies in a New York court in 2024).
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