America's future will be determined by the losers.
New political forces are emerging in the United States that will replace traditional parties.
An expert from the Kennan Institute, Igor Zevelev (Washington), writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in Kommersant.
“The paradox of the past American elections is that the loser is the future, and the winner is the past. Donald Trump discovered a new America that did not exist on the political map before him. And Joe Biden, who proclaimed “a return to normality” as his slogan, and in fact, strives to return to the past, will no longer be able to close this America,” writes Zevelev.
According to him, even if Trump leaves the political scene forever, Trumpism will remain, since the current president has managed to position himself as a defender of the working class - primarily its white representatives from towns and small cities, and business, by lowering corporate taxes and partially deregulating the economy .
The author points out that even if he loses, Trump receives more votes in the 2020 elections than four years ago.
“It would be a big mistake for Democrats to ignore the phenomenon of Trumpism, considering it a temporary clouding of the collective mind of Americans,” the expert believes.
He also writes that Democrat Bernie Sanders, who dropped out of the presidential race for the second time at the primaries stage, was in fact the only Democratic Party that introduced new motives into American politics, which will sound increasingly louder in the future - guarantees of socio-economic rights, including the creation a national healthcare system, free education, affordable housing, and a renewable energy development program.
“Trump on the right and Sanders on the left challenged the political center and the establishment, but failed. Their baton will be picked up by young, ambitious leaders who are not as odious as Trump and not as old-fashioned as Sanders.
The Republican and Democratic parties are trying to somehow fit new forces into their structures, expanding electoral coalitions. So far they have generally succeeded, but new challenges are on the horizon: extremists are becoming more active on the right flank, and on the left a new ideology is being formed, based on the identity politics of an infinite number of individual groups: racial, ethnic, based on sexual orientation. For them, Biden is a figure from the past,” Zevelev sums up.
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