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Author : V. Surguladze
leading methodologist for strategic planning, R.O.S.T.U. Company, Candidate of Science (Philosophy)
IT SEEMS that the West is gradually turning to conservatism. At least
this is how Donald Trump's victory at the 2016 presidential elections
can be interpreted together with Brexit and the much stronger positions
of the right-wing parties in Europe. The left liberal forces that fell into
the trap of their own ideology and propaganda proved unable to ade-
quately assess the developments in their own countries and elsewhere
in the world.
Amid the failure of the multicultural ideological model, a product of
the widely propagandized liberal "end of history" born by the disinte-
gration of the Soviet Union, the ruling elites are trailing behind the
changing sentiments of the masses that want to revive the values of
national sovereignty and the traditional interpretations of morals.
Trump's victory caused a revolution in the political ideas of the elites who had learned to look at
the Western liberal democracy in its multicultural garbs as the summit of social evolution. They had
to revise their ideas about the processes unfolding across the world and the social and economic
priorities of the countries of the collective West.
Obama tried to revive the "American dream" of minorities; Trump will try to rekindle the "American
dream" of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, the "blue collars" and all those who still cherish the
centuries-old ideas of dignity of life and good and evil.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN stirred up a veritable information storm of commentaries
and assessments in American society. Political gurus of the United States made their own contribu-
tion to the ongoing processes.
Revolutionary motives can be detected in what conservative-minded politician Patrick Buchanan
wrote about the 2016 American presidential elections.
FORBES MAGAZINE summed up Obama's presidency and the 2016 election race in the United
States by ranking the outgoing American president as the 48th in its annual list of the world's most
powerful people. President of Russia Vladimir Putin took number one spot followed by newly
elected President Donald Trump.This is not a coincidence: the steadily complicating world needs
leaders able to make decisions.
DONALD TRUMP's shocking statements suggested that America's foreign policy would be refor-
matted on the grand scale.
Even if his desire to strengthen the bilateral Russian-American relationships is sincere, he might be
confronted with systemic opposition since foreign policy decisions of the President strongly depend
on the Congress.
After the election campaign, Trump has somewhat readjusted his rhetoric; his political ideas, likewise,
might become closer to those represented by the system. Today, he is ready to revise his attitude to
NATO and lower the U.S. involvement in global affairs. Time will show whether he will manage to
change the relations of long standing inside the alliance.
Donald Trump and the Renaissance of American Conservatism