Gideon’s liberal take on Trump falls within filtering and selective reading of history by making Trump look like an abnormal and an unprecedented product of the American society. Fundamentalist liberals are in the defensive because people like Trump upsets their staus quo and their own way of ‘democratic genocidal killings’, destruction of nature, plunder, capital accumulation, massive inequality, economic domination, demonising the Other, commodification of everything … Trumps upsets liberals because his barbarism might outdo theirs. It is another belief system that a guru like Martin Wolf, another FT columnist, keeps defending what he calls ‘the free market democracy’. No, Gideon. The US has been a rogue state for decades. Even if someone has only heard of the victims of its wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and its support of the genocidal Israeli regime would be able to question why only now the term rogue is being used. Back in 2000 William Blum had already mapped why the US is a rog...
“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