“It is impossible to understand Trumpism if we detach it from the past, as some are tempted to do when they contrast the good-old multilateral neoliberalism, which supposedly respected the international order, with a bad new nationalist and imperialist capitalism that does not. “Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney may well make the finest of speeches in Davos, but he cannot make us forget that the cause he has defended and continues to defend is not as pure as he would have us believe. “Neofascism serves as its bridgehead and model. The aim is clear and unapologetic: to destroy democratic institutions, even in the most minimal sense of the word ‘democracy’, in all countries, starting with the national sphere. “The Trump administration is an administration at war. It makes no secret of the fact that it is waging a total war against both internal and external enemies. This is its very justification. Today, as in the past, the enemy is primarily foreigners, who are equated with criminals....
“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