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The politics of the United States before the inauguration of the new president on the 20th is full of darkness. In the wake of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the opening ceremony itself will be drastically reduced and will take place.
This year, former President Jimmy Carter, 97, also announced his absence. It began with his inauguration in 1977 and has attended every inauguration ceremony in the United States ever since, and the news of his absence from the 46th President’s inauguration ceremony makes us aware of the uproar in American society.
Although the United States government caused heavy casualties and an economic recession along with Corona 19’s lack of quarantine, it is also true that natural diseases have fatalities beyond human capabilities. And at least before the end of this year, the situation is expected to improve.
Trump’s legacy
▲ Trump supporters invade the US Capitol. Supporters of President Trump stormed the United States Capitol in Washington DC on the 6th (local time). (EPA / JIM LO SCALZO) ⓒ Yonhap News
The concerns of American politicians are different from Corona 19. There is a cultural disease that is currently throwing the political world into a whirlpool. Vaccines for this disease seem difficult to find for at least years. After a Washington outsider named Donald Trump was elected president four years ago, American intellectuals, including those in politics, academia and even psychiatry experts, feared the confusion America will face in the future. In the end, his warnings were shown to be unbiased, and now America’s uncomfortable future is in sight.
When enthusiastic Trump supporters across the country took over the Washington Capitol on the 6th, the United States showed the world the most shameful spectacles representative democracy could put on. The riot at the United States Capitol that day was an event that revealed America’s only superpower as it was, and it was a scene from history that vividly shows how the presidential system, which promotes political stability, can transform into populism in an instant.
The Democratic Party and its supporters have boiled, and the Republican field is now agitated by the cross-border words and actions of President Trump and the collective unrest of the enthusiastic supporters surrounding him. Can the United States truly record the four years of Donald Trump as an entire chapter in the history of democracy? Otherwise, on behalf of the state, will the failure of democratic procedures be recognized and the president removed, demanding pedagogical responsibilities (which explains the wrong attitude towards the law)? America is at a crossroads.
Firing the president of the United States requires a two-step process. First, if the president is impeached with the approval of the majority of the House of Representatives, then the final approval is made with the approval of more than two-thirds of the senators.
So far, there has been no case in which the impeachment of the president has finally been approved in the United States. 17th President Andrew Johnson and 42nd President Bill Clinton managed to escape impeachment because the House of Representatives approved the impeachment process, but could not cross the two-thirds line for approval in the Senate vote. In the case of 37th President Richard Nixon, when the possibility of approval by the Senate increased, he decided to resign.
On the 13th (local time), the United States House of Representatives approved the impeachment bill against President Donald Trump with a majority of 232 votes in favor and 197 against, calling for responsibility for inciting the intrusion of protesters in Congress. However, the Senate still has a Republican majority. The number of Republican senators openly supporting impeachment of President Trump is increasing, but it doesn’t seem easy to cross the two-thirds line for approval. There is less than a week left until Trump’s term ends.
In the end, it is reasonable to see that it is impossible to impeach President Trump before the end of his term in terms of seats and time. Still, why is the Democratic Party trying to impeach a president with less than a week in office with little chance of success?
President Trump will retire from office in a few days. However, his political heritage, which has already penetrated deeply into American society, especially certain classes, has enough potential energy to shake American society in the future, clashing with existing political ideologies regardless of his retirement.
In this situation, the political opponent of the US Democratic Party is no longer a natural Donald Trump. What the next president-elect Joe Biden and the Democrats must confront is a new kind of populism that will slowly erode American society in the future, taking advantage of President Trump’s four years of political traces. Is named.
Some have an immediate allergic reaction to the trump coined word ‘caution’ after the name. It is a rational critique that has left a consistent academic or philosophical principle for ideology or political line.
Yet in actual politics, not the ivory tower, President Trump’s political style and communication methods have already penetrated the public. Tens of millions of voters are excited by every gesture of his words. A key class among them are American citizens who firmly believe that their rights have been trampled on by the political elite so far, and their rights that they believe have been trampled on are innate rights.
Your own natural human rights
▲ Bloodied bust of the twelfth president of the United States during the invasion of the Capitol Someone’s blood is on the bust of the twelfth president of the United States of Zachary Taylor on display in the Hall of Congress on the 7th (local time), the day after fierce supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington, DC. As a temporary measure, Congress covered it with plastic. (Washington AFP / Getty = Yonhap News) ⓒ Yonhap News
For them, natural rights are essentially different from the natural rights established by the United Nations in international law in 1948, which originated in the European Enlightenment of the 18th century. Rather, it is a natural enemy relationship with natural human rights, and they think that their natural rights have been trampled on because of the idea of natural human rights.
Natural human rights derived from the Enlightenment are the basic right to live as a human being granted to all human beings, and in front of this right there are only human beings without race, nationality or gender. On the other hand, for those who follow Trumpism, innate right refers to the right that is granted to them alone.
When the United States was founded, more precisely, at the time of the fourth President James Madison, there was an idea within the hawk forces of the United States that they believed there were a thousand God-given men in their independence from England and conquest of the new continent. Later, the journalist John O’Sullivan named it Manifest Destiny, and the idea was later used to justify all the conquests in America.
According to this idea, it is a right and a duty granted by God to reject and expel the indigenous natives, and that is their destiny. Over time, the natural rights and obligations granted to the first immigrants and their descendants, the whites, materialized.
For this reason, his thoughts inevitably clash with the idea of natural human rights. When indigenous rights in the United States, which are only granted to them, are violated by people of other races, religions or nationalities, it represents a frontal challenge to their apparent destiny. Therefore, they must maintain their God-given rights.
In the end, Christianity becomes the source of natural rights, racism becomes the condition of natural rights, and nationalism becomes the reality of natural rights. Still, in the name of secularism, schools teach racial equality, religious freedom, and politics in the name of democracy speak of cosmopolitanism.
As the gap between his beliefs and reality deepens, Trump appeared before his eyes. And, like a miracle, he became president of the United States. Now they have found in President Trump the identity of the whites who pioneered on American soil along with the Christian ideas they had lost and lived through. The time has come to rebuild America’s “clear destiny” that has been forgotten. That is the Gospel of Make America Great Again (MAGA).
MAGA Gospel: “Make America Great Again”
▲ Trump clenched his fists toward supporters gathered at the airport US President Donald Trump, who is about to retire on the 8th, arrives at Valley International Airport in Harling, Texas, on the 12th (local time) and shows his fists to his supporters. President Trump visited this day to commemorate the completion of a barrier built on the US-Mexico border. (Harlin War AFP / Getty Images = Yonhap News) ⓒ Yonhap News
President Trump is back now, but Trumpism is just beginning. And the Democrats of the United States, encountering a new political opponent, found their new reason for political existence. In that sense, a win-win game between Trump and Democrats has begun.
On the contrary, Republican concerns are deepening. Joining the Democratic Party does not reveal the reason for its existence, and joining the Trumpistas goes against traditional conservative values. The international community is also in danger of being isolated. The expectations of the world’s police may have to fall. Above all, we have to see how the dignity and worth of conservatives are abused and vulgarized.
That is why the United States in the next four years is many times more important than the United States in the last four years. Traditional American political forces are forced to rediscover the reasons for their existence. Reconstruction-level pain may be necessary if necessary. Trump is retiring, but the Trumpists are still there.
