According to Isaac Newton's Third Law, “There is an equal and opposing response for all actions.” Law relates to physics, but politics. President Trump and his minions can listen to it.
As the first weeks of the Trump administration's actions are clearly shown, the president's agenda is revolutionary and we hope to bring about a rapid, inclusive and fundamental change in American life. If the revolution of the past from above is a guide to the future of Trump's efforts, his revolution will not only fail to achieve that goal, but also create enemies and graves.
Trump's revolution will fail. Because rapid, comprehensive and fundamental change is too complicated and there are too many cheating and unknowns to succeed. Unintended consequences arise, problems arise, and sooner or later the entire project will halt. Of course, it's people who usually lose less, except that it ruined the lives of millions of people.
The influenced elites and masses that make up everyone except Trump's fanatic supporters are likely to bring them to the streets, and the effects of resistance against revolutionary elites whose “power of the people” is inhumane agenda It demonstrates that it is a tool for The regime responds with threats and violence, but as long as it is willing to engage in massive fears in the style of the French Revolution, coercion only strengthens the determination of the protesters. The massive march continues.
However, certain segments of the enemy will draw lessons that are different from government repression. Like underground weather, the Black Panthers of the US, the young lords, and the German Red Army factions and the Italian Red Brigades, they may conclude that violence must be defeated with violence.
Expect bank robberies and assassinations, and campus chaos. The National Guard will be mobilized. But the FBI, an important line of defense, is too confused and morale to track down terrorists.
Things can then get worse. The FBI and CIA are confused, Putin's sympathizer Those who are not responsible for national intelligence in Europe are the easy targets of foreign terrorists who are pleased to destroy American security agencies Pell-Mell. It will be. It's no longer possible to imagine repeating 9/11.
Both reactions to Trump's revolution – national protests and domestic and foreign terrorism – would outlaw the president and his administration for simple reasons: Assuming responsibility across the US, Trump is right You are responsible for everything that works. And much more will not work.
At that point, chaos and obstacles are spreading throughout America, so Trump either lifts ante and adopts mass violence as a result of a palace coup led by opportunists such as Vice President JD Vance; I had to resign. Large-scale violence will not save the regime, as it will only produce equally opposed responses. A palace coup can drive the country out of its illegal leaders and lead a transition to moderation and democracy – calling it Thermidor -That Vance rarely survives politically.
There is confusion, but America has the opportunity to save it from revolutionaries and terrorists.
Alexander J. Motil He is a professor of political science at Rutgers University Newark. An expert in Ukraine, Russia, the Soviet Union and nationalism, revolution, empire and theory, he is the author of ten non-fiction books, and isThe end of the empire: The collapse, collapse, resurrection of the empire” andWhy is the Empire repeated again?: The collapse of the empire and the revival of the empire are from a comparative perspective. ”
