Donald Trump, a clown with money, earned the title of being the most anti-democratic president in the history of the United States with honors, and, if that’s not enough, the “worst criminal in human history” according to linguist Noam Chomsky. Directing his primitive behavior at lining the pockets of the most affluent and big business, and impoverishing the most destitute (who form a majority in the world), an extremely dangerous Trump specialized in peddling hoaxes and other lies and became an invaluable asset to bankers and multinational enterprises.
Trump complemented his empowerment of the far right, white supremacists, racism and xenophobia with the populist wholesale offer of security by instilling fear and hatred directed at immigrants, the dispossessed, the LGBTQ community, African Americans and those discarded by history. He fueled enthusiasm for the all powerful who exploit the workforce and the planet’s riches as they please.
His neofascist repertoire, his bullying and insulting of those who disobeyed him, and his lies intent upon establishing the kingdom of untruth that emerged as the hegemonic culture of “fake news” caused many, especially those in the historical backyard known as Latin America, to believe that the Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, was some sort of leftist, a redeemer of the poor and someone who was opposed to what both he and Trump represent — neoliberalism, a system of injustice and shamelessness that has enriched few and impoverished millions.
As highlighted by former Bolivian President Evo Morales, who knows that the United States is governed by CEOs, multinationals and imperialist capitalists as opposed to the people (divided into Democrats and Republicans), “The only difference is that Donald Trump is more racist-fascist.” Trump, who legitimizes hate and class discrimination, and who with his populism and cheap tricks has led a large number of the exploited to support his political fraud, is but another puppet of the powerful, who nevertheless support both political groups with funds and resources.
Democratic and Republican presidents have ripped democracy to shreds. In democracy’s name, and in the name of liberty, they have promoted invasions, violations of sovereignty, coups d’état, bombings, the destruction of foreign land, blackmail and economic blockades. The empire retains no theoretical basis vis-à-vis respect for the free self-determination of a people or for peaceful coexistence. When it has to destroy, it destroys. Simple as that.
President-elect Biden is not above this aberrant practice. For example, as we all know, both as Barack Obama’s vice president and as a senator, Biden had no qualms in supporting the attacks and invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. He is another piece of the complex machinery of U.S. imperialism, which, through its 160 years of bipartisanship (the Republican Party, the younger of the two, emerged in 1854), has dismissed other strategies, especially when they were linked to anti-capitalist doctrines.
Biden, who is no leftist despite Trump’s depiction of him as a McCarthyite (Trump also used other descriptions, including references to Castro-Chavismo and resorted to other fascistic propaganda devices, such as turning people against journalists, liberated women, Black people, dissidents, etc.), represents the most conservative strand of the Democratic Party. It is worth remembering that as vice president during the Obama administration, he was also involved in the coups d’état against Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and the attempted coup against Rafael Correa in Ecuador. He is by no means an angel.
In any case, Trump has in fact set a series of shameful trends in motion, including the denial of science and climate change, and the assertion that COVID-19 is a hoax. (The 10 million individuals who were infected and the deaths of 235,000 people from COVID-19 in the United States mattered little.) He leaves behind him atrocities that transcend his country. Trump is an extremely dangerous member of the far right, which includes militants in other regions on the of the map, as has been noted in Colombia, for example.
Right before the election, Chomsky wrote in The New Yorker that “In the 350 years of parliamentary democracy, there’s been nothing like what we’re seeing now in Washington,” referring to the malfeasance of possibly the worst president the White House has ever accommodated. Chomsky attacked Trump by branding him “a very loyal servant of private power, private wealth and the corporate sector.”
Moreover, Chomsky described Trump as an enemy of humanity, who celebrated climate catastrophes, or better yet, sponsored them, and posed a grave threat to the survival of humanity on a debilitated planet. Biden, for his part, has promoted the American military-industrial complex and has close ties to the wallets of Wall Street, and is no dove. Time will tell.
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