Donald Trump and the Temptation To Retreat into Oneself

In our eyes, the Republican “chiefdom” style race is surrealist. Maybe it’s an exact reflection of America’s permanent desire to isolate itself, a trait evident in its closure to the creations of foreign cultures, such as how U.S. films only illustrate known examples.

This is a historic attitude, endlessly reinvented and eminently effective, that rests on both U.S. invasions and attempts to dominate the world, and on its reception of the world as a way by which to better assimilate it, to fashion the world in its image.

The support given to Trump, incomprehensible to the political intelligentsia of other nations, may be an instinctive means for the American people to protect themselves from the disappearance of their distinctive characteristics and the creators of their identity. These have been endangered by the political globalization of wide-ranging capitalist changes, even if it is in America’s immediate interest to ensure these trends take off.

A reactionary attitude? A vital attitude? History will decide.