Trump is not an aberration. Trump is not an accident. Trump is not a “wrong choice of leader” not at all. Trump is the naked face of centuries of imperial violence, exploitation, hypocrisy and immorality that finally cannot be hidden anymore. That is why he is disturbing. That is why he is loud. That is why it is shameless. Because there is no ideology left to be ashamed of.
Trump is the moment of the collapse of the West's narrative of itself. “Universal values”, “human rights”, “rule of law”, “free world” were window dressing for the imperial order. Trump kicked this window dressing. He showed what was inside: power, interests, domination and arrogance.
This is not Trump's biggest crime; his biggest crime is that he is honest.
It is a clear statement of what imperialism is.
With Trump, the world has clearly seen this:
The West has not lost its morality - it never had it.
He's just too weak to act anymore.
Trump is the last phase of liberal imperialism. There is no need for ideology in that phase. Because there is no one left to convince. Neither the global South believes in these tales anymore, nor the West's own poor. That is why Trump talks, shouts and threatens. Because power that cannot establish hegemony produces tyranny.
Trumpism is the panic politics of the imperial center. It is a primitive reaction to the rise of a multipolar world, the disintegration of the old order, dwindling resources and the collapse of the West's “natural leadership”. This is why walls are built. That's why sanctions increase. That's why trade wars start. Because the center is no longer the center; it is only armed.
Trump is not the representative of the rational mind of imperialism, but of a narrowed, frightened mind reduced to primitive reflexes. His “America First” America's claim to universality is not because America is strong; it is because it can no longer be universal. When the universal claim is over, all that remains is “me first” remains. This is the sentence of the collapse of empires.
Trump's language is not fascist because it is ideological; it is fascist because it is naked. It describes the enemy, it targets, it negotiates, it threatens. But he never tries to convince. Because imperialism has passed the persuasion phase. It no longer wants to rule, but to hold by force.
At this point, Trump is not a leader, but a flare.
The imperial order has declared that:
We will no longer answer to you.
We will no longer be ashamed.
We will no longer hide the double standard.
This announcement is dangerous for the world. Because when the mask falls, power becomes more aggressive. Law becomes a prop. Human life is reduced to a cost item. Civilian deaths become statistics. Hunger “side effect” happens Destruction “inevitable price” is called.
In the age of Trump, imperialism does not try to solve its own crisis. It weaponizes the crisis. It turns chaos into a management technique. Constant threat, constant tension, constant enemies... Because peace is a luxury for weak empires. The order that loses power produces conflict.
Trump's biggest ideological contribution is this:
He has closed all the distance between right and power.
It is no longer the right that speaks, but the powerful.
This is the last sentence of imperialism.
Trump is a consequence. The result of imperial capitalism, global inequality, colonial memory and hypocritical morality. Sending him away will not solve anything. Because Trumpism is not limited to one person. It is the reflex of the system. Today it is Trump, tomorrow it will be a more disciplined, colder, less noisy but more deadly version.
The real issue is this:
No victory in this world is real until the order that makes the Trumps possible is destroyed.
This is why the fight against Trump is not a matter of elections. It is a struggle for a vision of the world. It is a struggle to re-establish the truth against the naked power of imperialism. It is a struggle to produce a political imagination centered on justice against the mind that sanctifies power.
Otherwise, Trump will go down in history not as a disgrace but as a pioneer.
And then humanity realizes:
The plague was not a man.
The plague was an era.
And that age grew with applause.