I’ve always felt that George W Bush’s place in history would be as the president who accelerated the end of the post-colonial era, the time when the West in general and the US in particular had structural advantages in geopolitics and economics. Trump’s flagrant moves speeding this further obscure the extent to which the US’s standing wa…
I’ve always felt that George W Bush’s place in history would be as the president who accelerated the end of the post-colonial era, the time when the West in general and the US in particular had structural advantages in geopolitics and economics. Trump’s flagrant moves speeding this further obscure the extent to which the US’s standing was already weakened by the Iraq War and the 2008 fiscal crisis, which itself was the biggest factor in the collapse of legitimacy that’s driven the rise in authoritarian nationalism. Trump is deliberately taking a jackhammer to pillars Bush heedlessly weakened.
I’ve always felt that George W Bush’s place in history would be as the president who accelerated the end of the post-colonial era, the time when the West in general and the US in particular had structural advantages in geopolitics and economics. Trump’s flagrant moves speeding this further obscure the extent to which the US’s standing was already weakened by the Iraq War and the 2008 fiscal crisis, which itself was the biggest factor in the collapse of legitimacy that’s driven the rise in authoritarian nationalism. Trump is deliberately taking a jackhammer to pillars Bush heedlessly weakened.