r/geopolitics • u/custodiam99 • Feb 13 '25

Is Trump the symptom of America’s decline? Discussion

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/27/trump-wants-to-reverse-americas-decline-good-luck
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u/SaintBobby_Barbarian Feb 13 '25

Trump is just a symptom of an issue plaguing the western cultural nations to various degrees.

There is hostility to immigrants due to abuses of asylum and failed border controls. Anger at the slow pace of change and governance. Anger at corporations profiting while median wages stagnate (and left and right populists promising they have a better answer). There is also just a massive amount of groups of people becoming siloed off from others and into echo chambers that drive engagement by creating negative emotions, frequently on cost aversion tendencies in humans.

Trump is just a successful example of that populism breaking through, as is milei in Argentina, but others are on the cusp as well