Trump and Organization

Trump and Organization  

   Fusty ideologies personified with dead men’s masks are escorting fear and despair worldwide. Not a hasty categorization, but concrete recognition needed to resolve a problem.

    The narrative referring Trump as an incarnation of neo-liberalism^[각주:1] would be as equally inappropriate as the narrative calling him Adolf Hitler. Considered that every political decision can only be made in, and is a response to, a specific given conditions, all metaphor that extracts a figure (including Frederick Hayek or Adolf Hitler) from the past have limitation in capturing reality which always position itself here and now. In fact, both two allegories drawn to describe Trump seem to be rather harmful than merely meaningless for they effectively get in a way of understanding what really is happening now.

    It goes without difficulty in acknowledging that the America is different from the Weimar Republic obviously because America has an incomparable number of institutions that are highly organized^[각주:2], maintaining checks and balance system. On the other hand, the diagnose that the limited sects of people monopolize the power over politics and economics also sounds fairly rational. Those who deemed the power structure of the U.S. ruled by few elites would find however, the multiple disparities between those limited sects, confirming the fact that the level of functioning pluralism is historically at its peak in contemporary America. Because of their shattered interests and plural political roots(states, donors...), It would be a bleak to hope all republicans who apparently took both house and senate to cooperate altogether even on single issue, not to mention every issue. Countless impediments nominal republicans will face in order to get one done. Gridlock, a prominent keyword understanding U.S. politics, won’t suddenly vanish into thin air, although there could be a chance to be gradually diminish.

    The same insufficiency arise with the argument that views president Trump as an omen of onrushing full-fledged neo-liberalism. However, neoliberal tendency, though there is high probability of being continued in Trump administration, cannot be a single administration’s distinguishable nature, when historical accounts are considered. Neoliberalism would have successfully grasps the relatively coherent narratives of Magret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan’s policies. Yet the both Thatcherism and Reaganism, either done their job good or bad, had finished its own vocation thereby giving up their core principles when they encountered economic depressions, particularly, the Great Recession. It withered away since there was no choice but to do so. Irreversibility rules the stage of history. There can’t be any taking back to the way it just was. Neoliberalism swept away once, getting rid of regulations and social security net concentrating wealth to the fewer people. The objective might be similar; yet the velocity and the range in achieving so can’t be similar to those of Thatcher’s and Reagan’s because there no more left as there used to be, to destroy. Although it is undoubtedly true that considerable amount of time in human history will be spent responding to the boons and burst of capitalism’s cycle, switching the gear back and forth, It would be a vagabond to warn people that the past ideology will prosper as it did back in the days.

    The overall political environment has changed, and changing of the already changed isn’t going to be a easy quest. In this sense, investors seems to be the the shrewdest group^[각주:3], expecting that even Trump won’t be able to shift radically an inclination to appease people who got smacked by Great Recession. Those who work in financial areas, clearly know that unlike all the indications of the public statistics, the great majority of the people never succeed to restore themselves back. Their selling bonds are based on rational prediction that Trump will also enlarge welfare system causing inflation regardless of his personal desire. It is hard to neglect the fact that the America has been a state which successfully suppressed the revolutions, taking the minimum social democratic measures and it is implausible to expect an exception to be in Trump administration. Stirring stark emotions providing crudely drawn metaphors to elicit panic responses from people is not useless but detrimental. Suggesting reliable opinions to fathom the reality requires far more considerations and close observations.

    The statement regarding Trump as a “hollow man” or “vacancy” seems invalid. Even if we try not to ask unscrupulousness of the author about the source of “scary” neoliberals that will empower the president. Quite contrastingly, Trump, as all other people are, is a mixture of diverse social conditions which have accumulated historically. Scrutiny on social context admitting the changes that had taken place in reality is ever needed in understanding the continuous phenomenon starts from Brexit to Trump.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/14/neoliberalsim-donald-trump-george-monbiot [본문으로]
2. Wolin, Sheldon S. Politics and Vision; Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. Chapter 10: The Age of the Organization and the Sublimation of the Politics Boston: Little, Brown, 1960. Print. [본문으로]
3. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/14/bonds-trump-prompts-inflation-tax-cuts-interest-rates [본문으로]