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Joe Biden’s victory, albeit narrowly, is good news for progressive forces in the West and even more so for pro-European ones. The doctrinal pillars of the Trump presidency suffer a severe blow: international political isolationism and at the same time mistrust in European unity, trade protectionism and conservatism of civil rights tinged with racism or at least hostility to the active policies of race and gender equality. However, Trump’s extraordinary recovery in recent weeks from the polls cannot be underestimated, underestimated or surprised. Trumpism is not the classic republican conservatism that, after all, had to do with the freedom to guarantee market forces; in fact, in a way, protectionist options contradict this historical essence.
Trumpism is above all a cultural superstructure, which also in Marxist terms supports and is sustained by a structure of economic interests. A mix of ultras from the most radical Christian denominations, libertarian fanatics, white supremacists along with some traditional settlements of heavy industry, military and energy interests. But he is also representative of some interests and sectors of society that made up the classic electorate of the Democratic Party: the forgotten men of the expanses of the American interior, the working poor of the big cities, and the workers of the big factories.
All of them voted largely for Trump against Clinton and again, albeit to a lesser extent, for Trump against Biden. Democrats in America and their cousins in Europe, taken over by the most innovative and intellectual classes, by ethnic minorities and by struggles for civil and politically correct rights, have lost some coordinates of the suffering of the losers of globalization and the outsiders. To the system. And only if progressive parties around the world have truly learned this lesson, can they find in the Biden presidency the ideal stimulus and inspiration to assert themselves and make our societies more just and prosperous.
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