MAGA Has Fallen in Los Angeles
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
The emergence of various social groups in some of California's major cities in response to the US federal government's intervention by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has further discredited Trumpism globally.
The reaction of the Hispanic community in Los Angeles, California, in particular, may represent a breaking point for Trump's MAGA movement and signal that the United States' techno-feudal neoliberalism cannot exclude migrants working in the informal economy.
California has been the starting point for mobilizations within North America and around the world to challenge Donald Trump's administration.
California is one of the world's most important economies; in addition to the impressive civil resistance of the Hispanic community, there have also been strong demands from various business owners, landowners, and industrialists expressing the economic damage that the mass deportation of immigrants would cause, according to MAGA's approach.
Donald Trump's nativist economic proposal requires a costly restructuring that cannot be based on reactive impulses.
Removing migrants from workplaces and production chains, as Donald Trump is proposing, will disrupt important economic structures and generate greater problems than those Trumpism seeks to solve.
The attacks on migrants by ICE and the various security forces promoted by the Republicans have ultimately incentivized activism among various groups opposed to the American far right, and the country is becoming polarized in ways that are inconvenient for Donald Trump.
If the Republican Party is considering winning the midterm elections and retaining the presidency of the United States, it might consider tempering Trumpism.
The various demonstrations in American cities and the global criticism of WASP conservatism are elements that strengthen Democratic voters and will complicate partisan competition in the immediate future.
Donald Trump's first presidency failed to produce the expected results. It left his country deeply divided, and the confrontational mood, which some consider bordering on civil war, is not conducive to the Republican Party's tendencies.
Furthermore, the abuse of Trumpist measures against the American civilian population will also be an element that will affect the legitimacy of Donald Trump's second presidency.
California has become the Waterloo of Republican Trumpism.
The Calexit forces a rethinking of MAGA and American exceptionalism, and the idea of a North America that includes Mexico and Canada on equal terms is increasingly consolidating.
