Swinging an increasingly orange hand around, Trump has signed dozens of executive orders, from pardons for the January 6 rioters, eliminating DEI, and withdrawing from the Paris climate accord. To dismiss this spectacle of an administration as chaos would be wrong. Rather, this is the calculated consequence of a society that has abandoned reason and chosen to adopt neo-fascism.
Currently, preparations are being made for a detention facility at Guantánamo Bay that Trump said could be used to hold up to 30,000 immigrants deported from the US. These parallels mirror the fascist values of Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. The election of Trump is not just an aberration but a rational endpoint of a culture that is continuing to forsake thought in favour of short-term sensations. Removing DEI efforts and eliminating “gender radicalism” in the military will not solve the economic crises the country finds itself in.
Removing DEI efforts and eliminating “gender radicalism” in the military will not solve the economic crises the country finds itself in.
Yet this regime champions that which stifles its growth. Trump’s foreign policies are dictated by ego rather than strategy. In reference to Gaza, it is no surprise the avaricious business mogul openly declared for the ethnic cleansing and mass migration of the Palestinian people, saying on his first day of office: “Gaza's interesting. It's a phenomenal location. On the sea, the best weather...Some fantastic things could be done with Gaza”. The President of the Real Estates of America continued the discussion days later, stating: “You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing”.
This administration’s policies would be laughable if they were not so destructive: tariffs are choking innovation, and censorship is thinly veiled as patriotism. The Trump cult—who are consumed by their own irrationality—publicly celebrate on social media the mass deportations of children, workers, and families by the ICE, describing them as “criminals” and threats to the American people.
What is clear is that the brilliant MAGA logic transcends the ideas it unwaveringly stands by. According to the election results, criminals and rapists should not just be in the country, they deserve to be in the Oval Office itself. Donald Trump—with thirty-four felony convictions, two impeachments, and accusations of rape—now makes the decisions for the American people.
The White House and the country have become a parody of itself, enslaved to the ideologies it once sought to destroy.