The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, expresses his ideological framework, political imagination, and concepts in his book titled “Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America” as follows: “I want to bring America back to its former days, make it great and prosperous again, and transform it into a country respected by its friends and feared by its enemies.
It’s time for action! In this book, I summarize the vision I’ve created to make America a great nation again. I discuss how we will fix our faltering economy, make our healthcare system more effective and efficient, rebuild our military to win wars, create an education system that equips our students to compete globally, put an end to illegal immigration, and encourage companies to bring their factories back to America by exerting pressure, thus providing employment.
This book contains the plan for making America a great nation again. It’s not a difficult task. We just need someone with the courage to say what needs to be said.”
Donald Trump’s victory, particularly against a candidate with bureaucratic experience like Hillary Clinton, was met with astonishment both in the United States and around the world. Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump portrayed an image of a politician unfamiliar to American bureaucracy through his statements, rallies, demeanor, and attitude. He differed significantly in character and thought from previous American presidents. However, beyond all these distinct qualities, there was a commonality between him and the 44 presidents who came before him. This commonality is the state philosophy of the United States, in other words, its aims and objectives. In short, it is the “Philosophy of the United States of America.”
American politics constitute a complete entity. Unlike Turkey, where the mindset and policies of each prime minister and party differ, in America, regardless of whether the newly elected president is from the Republican or Democratic side, they all pursue a shared goal. This shared goal is to achieve a “Greater America,” to make it the largest and sole superpower in the global system, respected and feared. Rest assured, U.S. elections are never left to the cosmopolitan and diverse thoughts of the American people. No one whom the deep state does not want can ever become a candidate or be elected. The great power that sustains the United States primarily chooses the individual who will become the president after each presidential term. The election of the president is never left to the preference of the cosmopolitan American people.
The deep state mentioned above somehow manages to make the American public feel that the election was conducted by their own free will through perception management and psychological activities. Because in “The Land of the Free,” another name for the United States, legitimacy is sought from the people in every election. In this country marketed as the land of freedom, in every election, candidates and subsequently elected presidents are generally chosen from individuals with different characters, emotions, and thoughts. This is mainly to cultivate the feeling that anyone who thinks differently can become president in a free and independent country. One of the most significant examples of this is Barack Obama, the first black/African-American president. Donald Trump, like Barack Obama, stands apart from previous American presidents in terms of character and psychology.
If Hillary Clinton had won the elections instead of Donald Trump, the United States and the deep state would have been the winners under all circumstances, and significant opinion leaders would still have emerged. The main point we want to emphasize in this article is that despite the passage of 44 presidents since its establishment, the policy and ideals of the United States have remained the same. When we examine the victory speeches made by all elected U.S. presidents after winning the election, they almost all use the same words and express the same opinions. The fundamental reason for this is that in the United States, presidents who would jeopardize the established order of the country and change current policies are not elected and bureaucrats do not exist.
In essence, the United States is intertwined with its history, never abandoning its traditional structure and always pursuing the same interests. A national consciousness prevails in all American citizens. They draw from their own history, culture, and traditions. In short, they are united with their ideals. This unity and cohesion, which made the United States strong and recorded it as the most profitable and leading state of the 20th century, enable it to continue to exist as a strong and leading state in the current global system of the 21st century. The fundamental factors that give the United States this power and spirit are its existing state philosophies.
The excerpt from Donald Trump’s book that we quoted above demonstrates the unity and cohesion of the U.S. state structure and policies. These policies and expressions generally revolve around making America a great and prosperous nation again, a country respected by friends and feared by enemies, prioritizing the interests of the United States both in domestic and foreign policies, and being willing to do whatever it takes to protect these interests, even going so far as to engage in warfare if necessary.
All of these points and the unity and cohesion of the U.S. state structure and policies highlighted above reveal themselves. These factors that make the U.S. strong have, unfortunately, never existed throughout the history of the Republic of Turkey within our current political system. Not only is there a lack of unity and cohesion, but within Turkey’s political system, different parties and different ideologies have always been active, often to an extent of fanaticism, seeking to either completely change or even deny the existing order that preceded them. To the extent that within Turkey’s current political system, even the so-called “right” and “left” political structures, divided and fragmented into numerous different groups and parties, respectively.
