The present has a background Example: a champion of "middle-class America" and "middle-class values", a fighter against "aliens" Wasn't Bill Clinton a darling for Liberals and Neoliberals alike? Further reading “ The Obama administration has deported more people than any other president’s administration in history. In fact, they have deported more than the sum of all the presidents of the 20th century.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51