Date: 2018
Type: Article
Democracy in the age of Trump
Telos : critical theory of the contemporary, 2018, No. 185, pp. 192-200
INNERARITY, Daniel, Democracy in the age of Trump, Telos : critical theory of the contemporary, 2018, No. 185, pp. 192-200
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Unexpected things are taking place, for those who in principle have the best instruments available to know society and to anticipate its possible evolution: bewildering electoral results, losses of referendums against all predictions, the advance of reactionary political forces. The pavilion of the disaffected consists of people from varied backgrounds, from both the right and the left, classic conservatives and progressive snobs, the American Republican Party and the Clintons, the European Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats. In times of fragmentation, the only thing that cuts across is confusion, although it tends not to last as long on the right. In general, conservatives deal better with uncertainty and do not have too many pretensions of formulating a theory of society, as long as things
are functioning. The left tends to suffer more from lack of clarity and takes a long time to understand why workers vote on the extreme right. From this arises the debate about what the left (liberals, democrats, socialists, or progressives) should do to recover some strategic capacity in the midst of a situation that it neither understands nor, naturally, controls. In any case, it may be that the distinction between the right and the left is less relevant than the difference between those who have understood it (Trump and Sanders) and those who have understood nothing (traditional Democrats and Republicans).
Additional information:
Published: winter 2018
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60265
Full-text via DOI: 10.3817/1218185192
ISSN: 0090-6514
Publisher: Telos Press
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