{"id":281536,"date":"2026-01-15T18:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281536"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:40:19","slug":"trumpism-the-corruption-of-power-the-plague-of-the-century-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/trumpism-the-corruption-of-power-the-plague-of-the-century-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpism The Amorality of Power... Trump, the plague of the century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is not an aberration. Trump is not an accident. Trump is not a <strong>\u201cwrong choice of leader\u201d<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is the moment of the collapse of the West's narrative of itself. <strong>\u201cUniversal values\u201d, \u201chuman rights\u201d, \u201crule of law\u201d, \u201cfree world\u201d<\/strong> were window dressing for the imperial order. Trump kicked this window dressing. He showed what was inside: power, interests, domination and arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>This is not Trump's biggest crime; his biggest crime is that he is honest.<\/p>\n<p>It is a clear statement of what imperialism is.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump, the world has clearly seen this:<br \/>\nThe West has not lost its morality - it never had it.<br \/>\nHe's just too weak to act anymore.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281537\" src=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trumpppp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trumpppp.jpg 512w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trumpppp-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trumpppp-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cnatural leadership\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is not the representative of the rational mind of imperialism, but of a narrowed, frightened mind reduced to primitive reflexes. His <strong>\u201cAmerica First\u201d<\/strong> 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<strong> \u201cme first\u201d<\/strong> remains. This is the sentence of the collapse of empires.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nAt this point, Trump is not a leader, but a flare.<\/p>\n<p>The imperial order has declared that:<\/p>\n<p>We will no longer answer to you.<br \/>\nWe will no longer be ashamed.<br \/>\nWe will no longer hide the double standard.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>\u201cside effect\u201d<\/strong> happens Destruction<strong> \u201cinevitable price\u201d<\/strong> is called.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's biggest ideological contribution is this:<br \/>\nHe has closed all the distance between right and power.<br \/>\nIt is no longer the right that speaks, but the powerful.<br \/>\nThis is the last sentence of imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The real issue is this:<br \/>\nNo victory in this world is real until the order that makes the Trumps possible is destroyed.<br \/>\nThis 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.<br \/>\nOtherwise, Trump will go down in history not as a disgrace but as a pioneer.<\/p>\n<p>And then humanity realizes:<br \/>\nThe plague was not a man.<br \/>\nThe plague was an era.<br \/>\nAnd that age grew with applause.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is a consequence. The result of imperial capitalism, global inequality, colonial memory and hypocritical morality.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":281538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-281536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281541,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281536\/revisions\/281541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}