Diagnosis, prescription and cure. Dr. Trump wants a second surgery
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– The level of reluctance has increased significantly, consent to political violence is growing, and the rates of this violence are also increasing – says Dr. Hab. Małgorzata Zachara-Szymańska from the Jagiellonian University. – Suddenly you could say things and behave in a way that was previously unacceptable and ended a politician's career – says Dr. Jan Misiuna from SGH. We summarize the decade of “Trumpism”.
A tall, portly man walks confidently onto the stage and is eager to speak to the audience. He turned 69 two days earlier, but he is full of energy and announces that he will run for president.
Back then, no one knew that a man was entering the stage – literally, but also symbolically – who would radically change the shape of American politics over the next decade. Yes, your decision Donald Trump announced to the world on June 16, 2015 in his Trump Tower skyscraper in Manhattan.
A real estate magnate and celebrity who had long had political aspirations decided to take part in the race for the White House. During his speech, he says a sentence that will become his political credo: “We need a person who will make this country great again.”
More than seven years later, we are witnessing almost the same scene. On November 15, 2022, this time at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump announces his willingness to run for president again for the third time in a row. He's even wearing a tie in the same color. The key message remains the same as in 2015 – Make America Great Again.
This phrase, uttered a thousand times by Trump in recent years, is perhaps the most fateful sentence in the US in the last decade, which also became a kind of political spell that Trump cast on thousands of his supporters. And although, when he came to power in 2016, not everything changed as expected and as Trump himself would probably expect, for almost ten years he has been able to charm his voters with the vision of a better America, defined on his own terms.
Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania. Photo from October 29PAP/EPA/DAVID MUSE
The phrase “Make America Great Again” has already become entrenched in American political culture to such an extent that a movement of staunch Trumpists was created, whose name MAGA is an abbreviation of the first letters of these four words. Numerous T-shirts, hats and other gadgets with four words emblazoned on them were also created, but – most importantly for the 78-year-old politician – a solid base of voters of the New York billionaire has formed, who believe in their master's diagnosis and seem to see him as a prescription. to almost all the ills of the reality surrounding them. Simple but effective.
The question is whether this prescription has expired. Trump has been using it for almost ten years, and an American patient is now coming to his trusted doctor once again. And in a moment she may decide to undergo a second operation performed under his supervision.
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Trumpism, trumpocracy, trumposis – many linguistic creations describing both Trump's four years in the White House and his overall impact on American politics have been created, and various publicists are more and more creative in calling what could most simply be described as the “Trump effect”. We talk to experts about what it is.
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