Does Trump offer a New Dawn?
With Dr. Ralph Schoellhammer [Part 2]
In Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Ralph Schoellhammer, Head of the Center for Applied History and IR Theory at MCC, Budapest, we explored the shifting dynamics of global power and its impact on the culture and values of nations. Our discussion spanned continents—from Africa to Asia, Europe to the Americas—covering the rise of BRICS, the future of the U.S. Dollar, migration, and the growing influence of the state on the family unit.
We discussed the decline of the West and the corresponding rise of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). This shift signals a reordering of global influence, with new economic powers challenging the West’s dominance, particularly in areas like trade and energy. Ralph and I also shared our predictions for the future of the U.S. Dollar: Will it maintain its status as the global reserve currency, or decline in the face of challenges from emerging alternatives? Given the impact of President-Elect Trump’s policies, will his influence continue to shape global finance?
Migration and its cultural impact was another key issue. While many welcome legal immigrants who assimilate into society, there is growing resistance to current migration trends and rapid cultural changes. Will the U.S. border become more secure with the appointment of Thomas D. Homan as Border Czar? Could this mark a shift back from migration to immigration?
We also discussed the state’s growing influence over the family, and how modern states are increasingly intervening in what were once private, familial domains. This raises the broader question: In more liberal societies, must the state grow stronger to maintain order and stability? Did the U.S. electorate vote overwhelmingly for Trump because of concerns about an abysmal education system, indoctrination in schools, the transgender agenda, and censorship aimed at protecting children and because we are in the middle of a crisis of meaning?
As we navigate this rapidly evolving global landscape, the fundamental questions we face are not only about economic power or immigration, but about the deeper meaning of society and the values that hold us together.
In case you missed Part 1 of my conversation with Ralph:
I watched a Substack video in which an actor playing the part of Hitler was used to play the part of Kamala Harris. The point was made that the man with the mustache and Kamala Harris have a lot in common. Both are socialists and authoritarians. My latest Substack article makes the same point in "Government is the Problem" at https://2026.substack.com/p/government-is-the-problem
Dear PB,
This in today's teaser you sent out for Part 2 of your discussion with Ralph Schoellhammer could've bypassed my radar until you got to this re-cap you and others have been lulling me to hypnotic trance with in our ever more silo'd Land of Identity Politics...:
"....This raises the broader question: In more liberal societies, must the state grow stronger to maintain order and stability? Did the U.S. electorate vote overwhelmingly for Trump because of concerns about an abysmal education system, indoctrination in schools, the transgender agenda, and censorship aimed at protecting children and because we are in the middle of a crisis of meaning?..."
Specifically how the transgender issue became an issue after decades since the surgical transition became normalized and only recently became a routinized insurance "elective" exempted from Wage Slave Hourly Wage Stag-Nation earnings for a non-salaried nation always clamoring for Privatization in bizness, anti-social Public Policy and most ferociously over milking every privelege our unspoken of Class Issues in this country affords those in the tiny percentage who've "managed" to slip under the limbo bar of corporate-captured top tier INFLATIONARY earnings rising to meet da RENT or even once advantageous mortgage and re-fi offerings.....
When did our drug and stimulant consumed consumer life blur to where we even overlook getting and keeping 'gub'ment outta da bedroom!' in every parquet quadrant of what Shoshana Zuboff titled her most recent paradigm-shifting book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power"? (2019 paperback)
All amid clearly documented if rarely lingered on during Election Season that lurking biggest taboo issue: Over half a century of methodical Wealth Concentration and normalization of homelessness and down-sizing of ballooning costs (monetary and anti-social) while trimming budgets for workers and employers and now the body politic itself victimized by budgetary normalization of out-of-reach and no coverage for mental\emotional health care and HOUSING.....If those aren't human necessities, what is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juSABUfnUg&t=1069s
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