Brief introduction of the event that America became a failed country.

Donald Trump's transformation from an ignored clown-like peripheral candidate to being elected president is one of the most unexpected and traumatic events that the United States has experienced recently.

Analysis:

The impact is still unclear, but in the worst case, it may lead to the United States completely giving up its global leadership and the liberal world order falling apart. Since the 1960s, the United States has made great efforts to build this order.

Donald Trump

In the United States, endless after-the-fact review will focus on how Trump's victory may have happened; Most media will continue to pay attention to some short-term issues, such as the intervention of FBI director james comey eleven days before the election, or a series of leaks in Hillary's campaign.

Throughout the developed world, the banking crisis in 2008 questioned the authority of elites, who created this high-risk system. In the famous testimony of alan greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Directors, "the banking model is flawed", which weakens the professional knowledge on which the support rate of the elite depends. What is more serious than the economic failure in the west is that the sense of unfairness is getting stronger and stronger. What the public witnessed was that the wealthy institutions and individuals who had been running the system were all helped, and then the poor and middle class ushered in austerity policies and unemployment. In the United States, the anxiety caused by the decline of the country's relative strength has aggravated the destructive impact of these annoying observations.

2. Hillary Clinton: elite capture and veto system

The dysfunction of American political system greatly affected the result of the 20 16 presidential election. Huge sums of money and powerful special interest groups are eroding Congress and enriching the wallets of elites at the expense of ordinary people. This accusation unites Trump and Bernard Sanders, two peripheral candidates from right to left. Both accused Hillary of being the embodiment of this corruption, because the Clintons had already enriched themselves by collecting money from vested interests. With the boring progress of the election year, the right wing even raised the accusation to a new height: Trump condemned the corruption of American institutions, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (although only when he pardoned Hillary), the Federal Reserve Board and the National Electoral Administration. Matt draghi, a destructive conservative, even suggested that the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration exaggerated the threat of Hurricane Matthew for political purposes.

Today, the federal budget cannot be passed under the so-called "scheduled shipping" procedure, which has been going on for more than a decade. Every year, there is a showdown between the Democratic Party and its tea party members. Tea party members threatened not to pass the budget at all or raise the debt ceiling (such a refusal is absurd because it would involve a default on US sovereign debt). The brinkmanship of 20 13 brought the government to a complete halt. During this period, federal workers even appeared at work.

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3. Inequality and class dissatisfaction

Left-wingers in the United States usually think of African-Americans, illegal immigrants or other marginalized ethnic groups in cities first when considering inequality. Poverty among these groups is still a big problem, but the burden of unequal growth falls on different social classes: the older white working class, which has gone through three generations of deindustrialization.

The success of 20 16 populism is not shocking. The financial crisis in 2008 was the responsibility of the economic elite, but as a result, ordinary working-class people lost their jobs. Since neither party has provided houses for white working-class people, economic marginalization coincides with the marginalization of the political system, which favors people with money and status. What is really surprising is that this populist riot didn't come earlier.

4. The status quo of finishing work

A more worrying aspect of this year's election is the corrupt effect of social media. Because quite a few Americans just don't believe anything they hear from mainstream media channels such as The New York Times or CNN, and they are involved in a wide range of conspiracy theories to defend embarrassing information.

For example, they think that Trump's poor performance in the presidential debate is only because Clinton has a receiver through which he can receive answers provided by others. Generally speaking, conspiracy theory thinking is the product of powerlessness. In fact, many Trump supporters feel ignored and belittled. But he encouraged this trend for his own benefit, which bodes ill for the future of democratic consultation in the United States.

5. Democracy is revenge

Nearly two months after the election, there is still great uncertainty about how Trump will actually govern. The first uncertainty is related to his true character. He is not only a businessman who is good at trading and expects to reach a deal, but also an extreme conspiracy broker who implies that he will pursue a firm nationalist policy. He must manage a huge and clumsy government and deal with unruly foreign leaders: in the face of this reality, will his trading party or his extreme position win? Will he insist on imposing punitive tariffs on China and risk a trade war? Will he carpet bomb Syria? Will he insist on this dangerous measure and then ignore the ruling of the free world order such as the World Trade Organization and even the United Nations? Will he go further, as some of his more fanatical views show, and think that he is no longer obliged to abide by agreements such as the Geneva Conventions? The Geneva Conventions have long restricted the conduct of war. Will he authorize the crackdown on relatives of terrorists? Nobody knows yet. This trend includes the rise of anti-EU and anti-immigrant right-wing parties in Brebart and throughout Europe. In a sense, these developments, like Trump, are the public's delayed response to globalization and the economic and cultural disorder caused by the banner of freedom, and freedom is not limited to national borders. In other words, the "democratic" part of liberal democracy is waging an uprising to retaliate against the "liberal" part. If this trend continues in other parts of the world, we will be doomed to be punished in an era of angry nationalism competing with each other.