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For a brief moment after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we thought this was surely going to be the end of history–a slow but steady strengthening of the neoliberal order, with little to liven up our days aside from the pursuit of wealth in a capitalist society. After 9/11, there were already rumblings of that reality coming to an end–the cogs of history were moving, but in an inopportune manner for many, with nefarious political forces sustaining the march of imperialist America towards yet another campaign of global domination. From there, it seemed like the norms of geopolitics were starting to solidify, but comes 2016, and a cataclysmic event came to signify the end of modern human civilization as we know it–a reality TV star found himself at the helm of the most powerful nation in history, and things have only been going downhill from there.
If Donald Trump wasn’t personally responsible for all that has gone wrong since the beginning of his tenure in office, he symbolizes what happens when a reaction to the march of change backfires — and horribly so. What happens in America, doesn’t stay in America — the consequences of Trump’s actions have rippled their way throughout, and the coronavirus response is only a small fraction of…
