Will Australia fall for Trumpism?

The author is dean of the UDLAP School of Social Sciences. “Trumpism” refers to Donald Trump’s political movement and his anti-liberal style of government. In commercial and industrial terms, he seeks a reindustrialization based on the substitution of imports by increasing its tariffs on the world, closing its economy and violating international norms. It is the abandonment of Nearshoring, Friendshoring and Alliedshoring that the Biden governmen…

When freedom is surrendered, the insatiable, hungry monster of tyranny is fed. Democracies are endangered by unbridled authoritarianism, which takes hold, legitimized at the ballot box. Believing that the majority rules, resistance is clouded by the surprise, anti-democratic lightning attack led by US President Donald Trump, on all fronts at once. The Republican Party's "blitzkrieg" leaves the adversary Democratic Party stunned. Lacking the psyc…

Will Australia fall for Trumpism?

Where America goes, the rest of the world follows. Donald Trump has inspired copycats on just about every continent, politicians who frame their reforms as a crusade against a liberal establishment neglecting the country’s left-behind. As Australia’s 3 May federal election approaches, the country’s own “Trump lite” opposition leader, Peter Dutton, is riding high. His conservative Liberal and National Coalition is leading the current Labor govern…

In the logic we were used to until now, that of Romania's membership in the Euro-Atlantic space, with its values and priorities, we would have expected the Romanian authorities to actively and with conviction support the European policies of rearmament and support for Ukraine, the only state that actually ensures our security. Last week, however, we realized that Romania's position is downright schizoid: while President Ilie Bolojan supports, so…