I due lati del filo spinato Dalla seduzione alla paura: come Trump ha sradicato il sogno reaganiano
The Two Sides of the Barbed Wire From Seduction to Fear: How Trump Uprooted the Reagan Dream

Summary/Abstract: The Reagan presidency represented Washington's last great relaunch on the gaming table of global hegemony: the winning hand that allowed the United States not only to overcome the serious crisis of the 1970s, but to find newfoundations on which to reestablish its hegemony. Reaganism is the child of the charismatic President, a child that outlives his father, albeit showing increasing difficulties as we enter the 21st century, until it culminated in a manifest crisis with Trump's 2016 statement: the ideology forged in the late 1980s, once young and aggressive, is now an old lady disoriented by the challenges of a new world, while Trump presents a proposal and a set of ideals that are not only viscerally anti liberal,but also anti-neoliberal. However, the Tycoon's presidency appears, to use Mark Lilla's words, as a disjunctive presidency – “the old paradigm has been shattered, but nothing new has emerged to replace it” –, and the question we ask ourselves is: are we facing a new cycle of American hegemony, based on a different paradigm, or its decline?

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