Biden: The real good old boy
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
The president of the United States of America implemented a strategy to standardize his government with the great figure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. In the campaign, Biden decided to use less radical motivating concepts of unity and reconstruction than Donald Trump and with this he achieved the title of the US executive power against ultra-Christian conservative nationalism. The rhetoric of conciliation, employment, inclusion, equality, communitarianism and liberal progressivism was more powerful in an Electoral College destined to preserve the aristocratic sense of North American democracy.
Even though the polls generate an adverse climate for the Joe Biden administration, it is important to analyze the conduct of the US electoral system. The idea that whoever has the popular vote does not always reach the support of the electoral commissioners is a warning for political moderation and campaign prominence. Donald Trump is right in several critical aspects focused on the Yankee pentagonist, financial and imperialist monster; but his proposals are neither rational nor common sense in a historical moment like the one humanity and his country are experiencing. Trump has exposed the oligarchic interests that the gringo Leviathan represents; however, he does not have a public agenda to replace the military financial industrial complex, nor the bureaucratic giant of public administration. The power of his government was demonstrated in the presidency in charge of him.
Hence, Joe Biden, with his attempt to reflect Roosevelt -the old man-, but with greater prudence and wisdom, represents the lesser evil for the inner circle of the American political system. The so-called "Deep State" of the United States understands that if Donald Trump wins this time they cannot deceive or disobey him. Trump intends to arrive as an Alexander the Great who breaks the knots of public administration and federalism, even if this means dividing the American Union and giving rise to the nine historic nations.
The last Democratic administrations have been unfair to Mexico, they are right in considering that the obligation of order corresponds to the Mexican government itself. However, the Mexican neighborhood affects them more because of their stubbornness in neglecting colonialism. Mexico cannot govern itself because it depends, for better or for worse, on the United States.
To Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mexico owes the notion of a bureaucratic rationality in the construction of the Welfare State. Cardenismo and Avilacamachismo constitute a bridge of Mexican governability and connection to the national security of the United States. However, Mexico cannot grow at the rate of the United States. The political control of the country also generated a gradualism in its evolution
Developmentalism and neoliberalism considered that things could be done faster, the error is probably found in the ephebocratic impulse of some moments.
Despite the contradictions between Mexico and the United States for now, AMLO promoted the metapolitical figure of FDR to make American power aware of the need to moderate financial liberalism and nationalist conservatism. When you think about the post-war period of history until the decades of the utopian imagination in the 20th century, things were probably quite regulated, however, the ruling gerontocracy made positive decisions so that humanity did not exterminate itself. That democratic nostalgia that Anne Applebaum talks about probably refers to those years when Nazism, neoliberalism and libertarianism were as controlled as communism. Nixon questioned those leadership styles, but neither Kennedy nor Nixon resembles FDR, Charles de Gaulle, or Adenauer.
Which Roosevelt will the US Electoral College choose this time: the old or the young? Although Trump's diagnosis may be correct on many issues, in reality his style of government presents the traits of the "Peter Pan Syndrome" as dangerous as the extremisms that put the world on the brink of extinction.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is in fashion and that can change many things in the future of Mexico and the United States. Neoliberal nostalgia lies in not weighing its failure properly and recognizing the importance of public order, while the compass is lost for uncivilized liberals, radicalism will advance to the living room and dining room.
Although the magnetism of López Obrador also attracts Donald Trump, and the character considers him his “socialist friend”, the missiles are a point of advance over the wall and, in serious politics, these data cannot be ignored. Which Roosevelt is the favorite of the PRIANRD? Isn't it time to address the ideas of Ken Salazar and Jesús Reyes Heroles?
Probably the bad electoral trends that mark the Democratic Party in the next midterm elections and, above all, presidential elections in the United States, are the hidden purpose of AMLO's visit to North America. Either Biden and the Democrats agree with AMLO to take the Latino vote, or Trump - despite his anti-Mexican propaganda - makes friends with López Obrador's common sense and reinstates the empirical conservative nationalism that brings order despite the Yankee financial and Hollywood aristocracy.
The Morenoist creed in the White House has echoes for the Democratic Party and, particularly, for Joe Biden. The North American oligarchy wants progressive individuals linked to Obama, Kamala Harris or the Clintons as Democratic candidates. But what if Biden plays Franklin D. Roosevelt to stop the untimely Donald Trump – also similar to Roosevelt but called Theodore? Hence the patience - albeit brief - of sleepy Joe and the Yankee establishment's concessions to Amlo's populist expressions.
The success of López Obrador is reflected in the approval of US geopolitics to keep Ken Salazar, approve the legitimacy and magnetism that AMLO accumulates in his social bases, and pay attention to a Mexican agenda to provide results for ordinary people. In addition to gasoline, Americans can come to Mexico to get contraceptives and other things. If Mexico becomes the store across the street -which always has something more-, the vocation of narco-republic assigned by Zbigniew Brzeziski may be forgotten.
The polarization in North American society that derives from the economic crisis throughout the world can lead to Donald Trump attaining political power and implanting a radical conservatism that puts the civil liberties and rights of that country at risk. Within the framework of the AMLO-Biden meeting, it should be noted that the visit of the Mexican president is a support for the influence of the Democratic Party in its conquest of the Latino vote. Likewise, Biden is promoting a welfare state project based on common sense, also important in Anglo-Saxon empiricism. If Donald Trump is so successful, it is because he has added WASP nationalism to common sense, and that is dangerous for North American liberal hegemony, not to mention for plural progressive conquests.
Trump's conservative nationalism is becoming a valuable reference for marginalized and vulnerable Anglo-Saxon groups, Trump is obvious and that is why he seems more honest than the Democrats; but he is also a geopolitician who wants to return to exceptionalism and regional dominance, which would put the Republicans for a long time in the presidency of the United States and in other bastions of power -as has been the case in the judiciary-. If the Republicans and Trump win heading into 2024, will the Democrats ever return?
Ambassador Ken Salazar has recommended that critics of López Obrador in Mexico stop confronting AMLO and help him govern. Could it be that Joe Biden understood the practical advice?
Donald Trump, with everything and his anti-Mexicanism, also managed to get along with AMLO, calling him his “socialist friend” in the days before the meeting with Harris and Biden. Is AMLO the faithful of the balance in the conquest of the Latino vote in the US? Most likely not, but it is important to point out that the crisis of liberalism is raising the need to use common sense in politics, respect it, dignify it, even in Darwinism people expect something from their authorities to survive a little longer. It is not populism but humanism, mercy, what the people of the powerful are asking for. Before they are encouraged to perform other actions, because it no longer makes sense to conserve life.
AMLO's triumph is political, at least it reaffirms his support in Mexico and he won the arm wrestling against Yankee imperialism. Biden took notes with Morena, as Ken Salazar has suggested.
Economic and social relations will change slowly between the United States and Mexico, but the Mexican issue is becoming more important for the empire every day. It is necessary to change and develop many things so that our country can offer something more than basic services and products to the great Polar Bear. But the elements of the exchange do not depend on the presidents, they advance on their own, like the tacos, tequila, soccer and culture that Huntington and Friedman are so scared of. The Mexican plot goes.
Joke
Two Mexican analysts from the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), comment extremely concerned that people are becoming lopezobradorista.
One says to another:
-My nephew converted to lopezobradorismo
The other answers:
-My daughter and her cousins too. I don't know where we're going to stop
-For more anti-amlo campaigns, nothing else can be done
-You have to go to the US Embassy to receive instructions
At the embassy, in charge of the desk -once he has heard their information-, he answers them afflicted:
-Ambassador Ken Salazar also converted to López Obrador. Let's go see Uncle Sam so he can explain to us what's going on.
Once in front of Uncle Sam, the Caesar of the most powerful empire in the world, they point out that the people, the leaders and the North American ambassador become faithful followers of AMLO.
Completely sad and confused, Uncle Sam tells them:
-What can I tell you? My son Joe Biden also became a López Obrador friendly!!!!