It was one thing to expect this lengthy political moment; In the past weeks, it was completely another to live in it. Every day it is its new hell, as it brings more outrageous news from Autocrat, which is discovered in his contempt for the government he leads, to foreign allies who deserve our support, and the constitutional constitution. Since his second term began, six weeks ago, Donald Trump had attracted the audience to the extent that it was difficult to remember that there was a time when an American president was going through his first weeks in his position in a madness of activity that is not characterized by threat, chaos and corruption, but through discipline, efficiency and grace.
However, there was such a time. On the morning of clouds from March 4, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt arrived in the American Capitol to present the first opening letter. The country was in a general state of misery. Since the beginning of depression, in late 1929, one in three American workers lost his job. Countless schools have been closed. The banks were collapsing. Edmond Wilson, report for New RepublicHe wrote that “there is no garbage emptying in Chicago, the hungry is not chased hard.”
Roosevelt, after Herbert Hoover defeated the popular vote by eighteen points, can show off frankly in the state and understand its meaning. As he said in his speech in the Capitol, the demands of the “afflicted” voters were clear: “This nation requires taking action, and taking now.” Before the idea of ”the first hundred days” was written to the president, he started to rupture executive orders and legislative initiatives. Roosevelt, with the support of the tremendous democratic majority in Congress, saved the speed of the national banking system, took the United States from the gold standard, pushed a great comfort to the poor, created federal agencies that not only provided work to the unemployed, but also helped revive the country’s economy and the country’s infrastructure for decades.
Trump did not take a hundred days for the new Roosevelt deal match for a speed, “The speed of a muzzle”, as Steve Bannon, the formerly imprisoned court philosopher in Trump. However, while Roosevelt has developed a recent standard for reactivating society, Trump appears to be determined to prove the speed it can raise. In record time, he brought shame and turmoil to the country. Where FDR has begun to build and rest, Trump began to launch countless civilian employees, punish his opponents, and threaten the press. He threw as part of the basic climatic works, unimaginable immigrants, transit men and women, and the non -distinguished dictators, and unique allies. FDR Cordell Hull, Harold Icks, and other vast cabinet consultants; Trump mainly enabled extremists by thinking about the plot, Sycophance, and incompetence.
FDR created the Civil Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority; Trump has enlisted Elon Musk, who owns billions of dollars in contracts with multiple federal agencies, to freeze federal funding for programs on which millions of Americans depend and dismiss thousands of workers in vital government agencies. “We will make mistakes,” Musk said at the White House. To date, these small columns include, but not limited to, the situation of people who oversee nuclear weapons stocks and cancel the Ebola intensity measures.
In his time, Roosevelt led the invasion of global fascism and save Europe. Regarding foreign policy issues, Trump made a quickly common issue with the Autocrats from Budapest to Beijing and made it clear to our European allies that when they came to Washington, they had better in the ego and gift gifts, such as an invitation to visit King Charles. In the Oval Office on Friday, Trump sided with the Russian aggression, where he reprimanded the Ukrainian President, Voludmir Zelinski, for his failure to show his gratitude, his caffeine and “gambling with World War III.” Zelensky is the hero of the historical scale, brave behind the measure; Trump’s behavior was disgraceful. He and his vice president, JD Vance, tried to deliberately intimidate Zelensky with every ingenuity of a few small covers. The accident was shocking and inevitable, and all of this was in line with the mood of Trump-threats, release, and complications Dodge Fungi, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians.
Is this really the voice of Trump’s supporters in his favor? How do American values, institutions and obligations reduce the price of eggs? Writing in Foreign affairsStephen Levitsky makes Lakan A. A strenuous and convincing issue that most of the Autocrats that have emerged since the end of the Cold War maintains some democratic features, especially the elections, but they armed the state, and purify them from the imagined enemies. The authors argue, such a kind of “competitive”, such as Türkiye, Erdogan and Hungary Urban – is what is now in Washington. To reduce the endless jewelers in the first weeks of Trump in his post, to choose to move away, to close the news, is indulging in its self -infancy.
There is no guarantee that the deviant Trump momentum will slow down, or hinder, on its own. He has a fixed support for him Maga The rule, brown compliance with its gathering in Congress, and the support of a millionaires such as Jeff Bezos, who prefer to reduce the vitality of his newspaper instead of risking dinner calls for sovereignty.
However, the current torrent, which is fed by years of planning in right -wing circles and Trump demagogic, cannot be stopped. Will the Americans of the working class and the middle class tolerate the self -indulgence and the corruption of Trump’s favorite billionaires while their own interests are not dealt with? Will Robert F? Kennedy Junior, who is currently being tested through the outbreak of measles in Texas, is the confidence of the audience if there is another pandemic? We have already seen how some judges, governors, and law enforcement officials rejected at least to comply with the politicization of the law, or, as Levitsky and the method of the state weapon said.
At the beginning of his opening speech, Roosevelt said that there is no need to “shrink from the circumstances facing frankly in our country today.” In our time, the crisis is found in the Oval Office. Whether there is an authorization of what is being practiced, it will be clarified in the coming months – in Congress, in the courts, in the press, in the streets, and ultimately in the ballot box. The fear itself was the single enemy at the time of Roosevelt. That day remains. ♦