Trump, America, and its Ideological Enemies: The Grand Thesis. Condensed.

By Ali Modami

By believing in America one must also believe in The President. In the greatest democracy the world has ever produced, there are no winners or losers, but the government of the people, by the people and for the people as a whole. The historical year of 2016 reproduced the spirit of the American Revolution in 1776 and commenced again with the coming of Mr. Donald J. Trump. His ascendance to power, came against the backdrop of massive media propaganda trying their best to portray him as “The Hellraiser'' by using political mudslinging and skewing of the poll numbers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ali Modami
• Release date: Feb 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798624664807

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Prologue

A distillation of human intellectual evolution in its entirety in one book.

As an extension of the foreword, the analysis in this book is derived from facts, events and analogies to help underscore the predominance of America through multifaceted paradigms. Subsequently, this book is unlike most other books written about Trump and the defense of American ideals. Many of these other works are often written from an academic standpoint, but prove to be specious gossip material based on sensational yellow journalism with little to no authenticity.

Most of these books are very similar to whirlwinds of flourishes and tangents that often lack a central point. They often fail to expand on the American legacy and how Trump is following in the same footsteps of the Founding Fathers with the sole intention to restore these ideals. The President is single handedly bringing back the era of optimism to America just as Ronald Reagan did when he took office in 1981.

The chapter The Rise examines the ripe preconditions that enabled Trump to be elected despite the polls disfavoring him as a candidate. One can argue that America had been roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation while witnessing its ideals crumble. Initially, the chapter opens up by delivering a brief analogy of why America is and always has been the distillation of the manifestation of the inner goodness of man (or, as Abraham Lincoln famously said, the better angels of our nature). The analogy serves to emphasize the idea that, just as the children of Israel were handed The Covenant of God through Moses, the Prometheus fire of freedom was given to America to serve as a beacon of liberty and prosperity.

The chapter The Delivery systemically provides an encyclopedic appraisal of Trump’s speech and delivery rhetoric. It examines the American backlash against globalism and socialism by reintroducing the concept of America First, which emphasizes international bilateralism and cooperation in an effort to protect American workers.

The main focus in this chapter is a systemic analysis of a vast number of The President’s policies since 2016, with the purpose of argumentatively reinforcing the essence behind them. These are essentially restorative policies that reflect his unwavering steadfastness and resolve. In the process, Trump is always asking for loyalty from the people he works with, and this is why more often than not he must expunge his administration of perfidious elements. This principle is derived from his success in building a large global business empire; a principle that necessitates the need to build a network of trusts because capitalism is democracy and democracy is trust.

The chapter Traditional Foes deeply examines the historical backgrounds of America’s current ideological rivals, namely, China and Russia, in order to highlight the guiding beliefs and moral frameworks that characterize them. Here, the ideas of Confucianism and Aristotelianism along with the ideas of Marxism and classical liberalism are pitted against one another. For this purpose, the literature behind these doctrines are heavily examined. The conclusion at the end rests upon highlighting the superior features of the dialectic Western school of thought and classical liberalism, which over the course of thousands of years have helped develop functioning representative systems rooted in philosophy and contemplation, with the purpose of creating a better society.

The chapter The Third World Dilemma explores the cyclic revolutionary boom and bust that has defined the Third World till today and examines the evergreen questions of: Is the condition of Third World countries being due to their being victims of circumstances or being a product of a more expansive system of a cultural heritage? Is force and hierarchy and not the meritocracy of ideas the inherent prevailing tradition in these societies? Is knowledge the answer to alleviate these issues?

For this purpose, the common underlying elements that inform the cyclic revolutionary boom and bust of the Third World, are highlighted by comparing the revolutions and purges of less advanced civilizations, against the revolutions and purges of highly advanced ones. After expanding on the parallels between these lower and higher civilizations, the conditions behind the west’s progress to move beyond the vicious cycle of revolutions are examined.

These conditions open up the key to the success of the West in the form of an intellectual groundwork and knowledge, which then necessitates the examination of liberalism and America’s attention to its utility since the time of the Founding Fathers. In the continuation of classical liberalism, the prevailing intellectual and dialectic groundwork is juxtaposed with the prevailing moral framework.

Before diving into the realm of morality, the question that arises is: Except for either the rejection of the American ideals by the Third World, or in all likelihood, its lack of a tradition to absorb these ideals, is there an overarching element that sets the Third World and America apart?

After examining the rudimentary concept of virtue and morality, religion is brought into the forefront in a comparative paradigm, as it has served as the guiding source to define varying conceptual moral frameworks across civilizations. The conclusion at the end of this section rests upon highlighting the superior features of the Judeo-Christian tradition, which underpin American value judgement. A tradition born out of a gradual cultural diffusion of an intellectual groundwork and a distinct moral framework. A tradition defined as two intertwined, interdependent, and concurrent processes.

The chapter The European Enigma is an extension of the same conceptual analysis of the previous chapter, with the exception of exploring the defining European political theory and its deficiencies when compared to classical American liberalism.

Historically, fierce nationalism, rivalries, and unquestioned patriotism that regarded war as an opportunity to prove manhood rather than a catastrophe, characterized the mood of Europe as it dragged itself through two world wars.

The question is, how did Europe go from these extremes of social Darwinism to the extremes of socialism? To find the answer, the focus in this chapter is the post-war rise of the dormant social-democratic traditions in Europe, that allowed the formation of a collective false sense of optimism and the subsequent consequences.

The Rise

In 1788, the ingenious Founding Fathers created the most comprehensive and, by today’s standards, the longest-serving constitution in the world. Similar to a fine self-winding watch with countless high-precision wheels, it has for centuries allowed its stainless political pendulum, upheld by its robust articles, to swing back and forth on the political spectrum without ever comprising the existence of the Republic. Founded on liberal values of freedom and a moral framework deeply rooted in Christianity, it has every now and then been subjected to socialist ideas which in turn have managed to infiltrate and hijack the ruling majority, despite strongly antithetical to the grain of the Founding Fathers’ vision.

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was seen as an outrage in many quarters. However America in 2008 was a world away from the discrimination of that time. The voters in 2008 were not guided by traditional cultural attachment to race, religion or region. Although minority groups affected the election result, the overall strength of the 2008 presidential campaign drew its potency from an array of racially mixed constituencies with middle-class economic struggles and inequality as main topics. Sold on a vision of a reshaped country, the victory marked a multiracial coalition that had the makings of a formidable political base of power.

However, the American public opinion changed in significant ways over the course of the next eight years on issues such as the economy and different aspects and actors in the government. Americans were losing trust in many aspects of their government, from its political leaders, to long-standing institutions, to many of the agencies that provide public services. Americans’ trust in the nation’s political leaders struck its lowest level in the final year of the previous administration with dismal approval ratings.¹

These shifts help explain the recalibration of the post 2016 political climate and provide a context for Trump’s attempts to pursue an America First agenda, while shattering the idea of a world government. The 2016 election was ripe on every level, beckoning The President to enter the political arena. It was just in the nick of time of almost divine proportions. It was perfect timing to drain the swamp. America had spoken. Globalism was taking a massive toll on the U.S. economy through shady agreements and treaties like NAFTA that only served the elite, while millions of jobs were exported in tandem with companies moving to tax haven countries. Rampant illegal immigration, never-ending caravans, hideous gang-related crimes, ruthless drug trafficking and growing entitlement voices were beginning to rip apart the fabric of American societies and communities.

In essence, the previous administration was following the same agenda of corporate America; to end free market capitalism and bring about a gender-less, class-less, communitarian, grid-controlled dystopia and thereby crush the foundation of the American way of