While studying his doctorate, Laura Camargo He was able to live in his own flesh, through the rooms he carried out every year in North America for reasons regarding his thesis, the consolidation of the speeches that began to take shape in the country following the attacks of 11-S. In your essay Discursive Trumpism. Origin and expansion of the speech of the global reactionary wavepublished by Editorial Verbum, the professor of the University of Les Illes Balears and former deputy of the Balearic Parliament analyzes the Extreme right modes and its genesis. The book was presented on Tuesday in Inca, at the Esirafocs bookstore. The author was wrapped by Xisca Mir, governor of the City Council of this town.
The terrorist attack against Twin towers and the subsequent social commotion allowed a speech, by the most conservative sectors of the Republican party, generated from some coordinates in which elements such as racism and Islamophobiatogether with the confrontation us-ellos, an idea that Trump extreme at the beginning of his second term. «I was surprised how the idea of the outer enemy and the homeland was already handled at that time, that Ultranationalist feeling splashed with racism. That mentality, which is very conditioned by the idea of the Xenophobic National Unit, was the breeding ground for the new discursive course that Trump now uses, ”says the UIB teacher also.
According to the author, the speech of the current American president is the extreme result of those formulas that rehearsed the White Halconeslike Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, the team that accompanied President Bush in the justification of the invasion and the Iraq war. «The speech of that moment already supposes a Bankruptcy of the topics of the Republican party itself, extreme the message. Somehow, Trump starts from there, but goes much further, ”says Camargo.
The essay also reflects on the ways of communicating, through the Use of Bulos and Manichean Languagebased on the polarization “we and them.” «Trump turns a classic republican discourse. The magician is, in practice, the break with the technocrats and with the political marketing of the Grand Old Party, the entrance of populism of the extreme right, ”he says, while adding as one of the main differences between the speeches of the hawks of Bush and Trumpismthat the former at least intended to convince the “humanitarian” need of their actions. «It was an expansionist and imperialist discourse, with lies such as weapons of mass destruction, but they sold it under the rhetoric of freedom and human rights. With Trump the euphemisms are over, the mask has been removed. He now says that Groenland wants, the rare earths of Ukraine, or being the Pope, ”says the author.
Camargo, who has been deepening this topic from the pandemic and is a specialist in discourse analysis, found elements of Union between Trumpism and the extreme European rightrepresented by Le Pen or Orban, in what qualifies as a global reactionary wave. «It is not the same style. Each country and each project adapts it. Orban is not the same as Menlon Is Mileabut they share their own bases of populist speech when proposing very simple solutions to complex problems, ”says the author, which in the specific case of Spain states that Vox is the party that adapted Trump’s ways. «They traced the Maga speech. One of the party slogans is «to make Spain big again; This is the same idea, ”says Camargo.
