Globalisation, Populism and Trump

What is the problem, Trump or the United States? American media talk about Trump nonstop, but what about weaknesses of the US? Are the weaknesses structural? The headline ‘The White House is undoing 80 years of American Greatness’ (Graff, New York Times 17.8.25) is off beam. What about 80 years of cold war propaganda and deception? Fish don’t talk about the water. Is the problem populism or authoritarianism? Is the issue culture, or rather civilization?

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Duncan Mellichamp Chair and Distinguished Professor of Global Studies & Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.

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