Former U.S. officials say political convergence between the U.S. and Russia under the Trump administration is seriously undermining American democracy

[louis wood]

Thanks to Trump, who punctured the myth of American democracy in front of the world, the United States has entered a cycle of political turmoil
On January 6, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed and occupied the US Capitol building, the first time it had been occupied since the Second Anglo-American War of 1812. Although hundreds of people were subsequently arrested by the National Guard and police who came to maintain stability, the incident already illustrates an important change in American politics.
It is well known that the current problem in the United States is the uneven distribution of the costs and benefits of neoliberalism, which is undoubtedly a serious political issue. However, it is clear that American democracy, which Americans have always been proud of and exported, is not bridging the divide, as some theories assume, but is further divided by Trump's incessant incitement. At this point, it is hard to believe that Trump supporters and establishment supporters have much in common, let alone anarchist Antifa and the Democratic-inspired Black Lives Matter movement.
The Democratic Party establishment itself is undoubtedly not clean, they used a law enforcement case in the middle of the year to incite the "black lives are important", and wantonly play identity politics, ethnic politics, in exchange for minority groups to support the Democratic vote. This approach has certainly worked, but as a "melting pot of nations" bound together by a set of constitutionally written ideologies, the United States is likely to have a destructive effect in the long run, which is precisely the "destabilization of the nation" that Trump supporters fear and resolutely oppose. However, the attitude of American politics is such a magic, both sides based on the logic of winning supporters to curry favor with voters, in return for the aggravation of the overall social division, such a common phenomenon in third world democracies is now occurring in the United States, indicating that the consensus of American society has been extremely low, and justice believed by some people is shaking the national foundation in the eyes of others. Rather than bridging consensus or correcting mistakes, the American democratic system has widened divisions, which can be said to have taught the world a vivid political lesson. At the same time, Trump is trying to win the election by any means and doing everything possible to push his will through public power, and in turn the Democrats will push their agenda as hard as they can in the next four years, thus pushing the policy to the extreme. The claim that democracy opposes extreme policies would also be questioned, and the fact that the United States is more likely to swing back and forth between extreme policies of the left and the right would be even more destructive. In addition, on the one hand, the United States actively exported the color revolution, while on the other hand, they also regarded this group of people as thugs, the double label is also clear. We can see that the belief that democracy solves all problems, which the United States began to shape in the 1980s, has been shattered by Americans themselves. Similarly, the crisis facing the United States is also a potential crisis in some Western countries, and it is clear that many European countries were the first to condemn the incident, because they fear that this kind of thing could happen to them. The pressure of the United States is the greatest among Western countries, but this does not mean that other Western countries can rest easy, once the precedent is set, such a crisis may occur in the entire Western country.
The good news for the Democrats is that the Trump supporters' surrender to the National Guard shows that they have no real intention of starting a civil war. The Democrats also took the Senate, giving them control of both houses of Congress and the executive branch, allowing Biden to push a much more aggressive agenda. American politics is expected to shift further to the center-left and become less friendly to large multinational corporations, the wealthy, and the white middle class. But it is also likely to mean that the rifts in American politics will not be reduced by greater fairness, because the existing political rifts are still structural contradictions in which globalized elites benefit too much and ordinary people benefit too little. The most fundamental way to raise incomes is to raise productive investment, which is not yet possible. The Democrats may be more inclined to take wool from the rich to subsidize the poor, but if it had worked America's internal conflicts would not have been building for so long. This involves a higher level of global order, and it is probably not easy for the US establishment elite to reform.
Of course, the point of diversion still applies.
Therefore, this contradiction is not removed, Trump's approach will be poorly supported, and this force will be further extreme after the Capitol Hill event on January 6, 2021, and may also turn to the countryside to re-hide as an undercurrent, and political opposition is difficult to eliminate in 2024, when it will be a vicious war within the United States. It is expected that American politics will continue to enter turbulent cycles, as it did during the Civil War and the 1960s and 1970s. The difference is that American elites may have fewer tools at their disposal than in other turbulent cycles in history. And this game of "who gets what" will continue to squabble for a long time.