Even our Observatory wishes to express some evaluations after the swearing-in of the new President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, which took place on January 20th. We do so keeping in mind the overall needs of the Social Doctrine of the Church, to which the Observatory is dedicated, and the Christian realism according to which salvation, even for earthly realities, comes only from Our Lord Jesus Christ and every event in human history is burdened by sin. This does not prevent us from also clearly evaluating events, but with reasonable prudence, without improper enthusiasm and attentive to the necessary checks over time.
During the electoral competition between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, in various parts of the United States and beyond, many Christian communities had gathered in prayer. The victory of the Democratic Party candidate was perceived as a serious calamity, a misfortune that deserved the imploring request to God that we be exempted and freed from it. This was an eloquent sign of the perception of what was at stake. Never had an electoral competition taken on such a meaning: the awareness of the unbearability not of someone in particular but of an organic system of power. Certainly this profound intolerance also concerned the individuals who were at the top of that system or who, while not being its main engine, nevertheless represented it, such as the incumbent President Joe Biden and the vice president and candidate Kamala Harris, but the issue had gone beyond the limits of traditional electoral competitions and at stake was the choice between perpetuating a system of nightmarish principles and values or opening some truly alternative door to get out of it. Many commentators say that in the United States the voting criteria are very pragmatic and not very idealistic. This time the American people have instead expressed a desire for liberation from a totalitarian and nihilistic democracy, speaking out precisely on the grounds of principles and values.
American liberal democracy from Clinton onwards, through Obama and Biden, has been totalitarian. It had built a vast system of power by linking together government apparatuses, security agencies, power centers in civil society, mass media, the new masters of the web, universities, international agencies and even the European Union. Little or nothing managed to escape the generalized control of this enormous deep state. One of the culminating moments of application of this generalized control was the two-year Covid period, during which they wanted to create a health totalitarianism, lies were institutionalized, the instrumental link with deviant international organizations such as the WHO was strengthened, censorship was imposed on the major social networks.
This oppressive leviathan apparatus did not only have material domination goals but also intended to impose the “creed” of the self-destructive nihilism of new rights, or woke creed, with the elimination of any meaning that precedes the act deemed absolute of the individual will, which should have acted as if starting from scratch. Clear emblems of this creed were President Biden and his vice president Harris. The latter had distinguished herself as a defense attorney for Planned Parenthood, the agency for abortions up to birth and for the trade in aborted fetus parts. Once a candidate, she then chose as vice president the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, an extremist in abortion and new rights, thus avoiding moderating her positions but insisting on presenting the competition as a clash between two value systems. An all-out challenge whose message was also received by voters.
Two of the privileged fields of the new anti-natural and anti-religious ideology of American liberals were the university and the entertainment. In all the universities on both coasts, under the guise of inclusion and the so-called enrichment of diversity, a linguistic and cultural homologation was imposed, with the prohibition of using words that could be understood as expressing some identity. Woke culture took the stage, carrying out expulsions of professors and sanctions and threats to students. The forced denial of identities expressed a new identity, that of having no identity. Ideology replaced knowledge, science and culture. Artifice took the place of reality. This also explains the notable number of scientists and cultural centers that welcomed the unrealistic ideology of gender or anthropogenic climate change. Adherence to political correctness – or “absurdly correct” – caused great damage, material and spiritual, especially through green mythology. The other field was that of entertainment. During the election campaign, all the big names in the system sided with one side only, with a few small exceptions.
Liberal totalitarian democracy has also involved part of the American Catholic Church on the issues of communion to politicians who support abortion, the recognition of homosexual couples, their adoption of minors, the acceptance of immigrants, even illegal ones. Even outside the United States, the Catholic Church has expressed on various occasions its adherence to globalist programs of an ideological type: from green environmentalism to health despotism, from society seen as a multi-religious and multi-ethnic jam to support for the most unbridled fronts of secularization.
With the political elections that brought Trump to the White House, the complex framework of this system has been disheartened. Even with an excess of rhetorical messianism linked to MAGA (Make America Great Again), this opens some doors and windows for real changes and those who are guided by the Social Doctrine of the Church can hope for more breathable air, for a progressive loosening of the grips of the system, for an expansion of changes in other parts of the world and especially in Europe. They can hope that the framework regains some element of “common sense”, as Trump also said in his first speech as President. With ideology gone mad, every cause is lost, with the intentions of common sense one can think of finding agreements on the common good. From President Trump’s first speech and his first executive interventions we learn that the change of direction is already taking place and this seems to open up new room for maneuver also for the principles of the Social Doctrine of the Church on life and family, on the ethics of political power and on the moral responsibility of citizens’ actions, on a weakening of oppressive globalism, on trust in nations and peoples rather than in apparatuses and corporations, on freedom in truth for every human person … and also on a possible return to God in public life.
Speaking about the global issues that are now coming to a head, our Observatory has expressed its opinion in its latest Annual Reports:
2024: Finis Europae. Un epitaffio per il vecchio continente? [Finis Europae. An epitaph for the old continent?]
2023: Un Deep State planetario: la politica manovrata dall’ombra [A Planetary Deep State: Politics Operated from the Shadows]
2022: Proprietà privata e libertà. Contro lo sharing globalista [Private Property and Freedom. Against Globalist Sharing]
2021: Il modello cinese: capital-socialismo del controllo sociale [The Chinese Model: Capital-Socialism of Social Control]
2020: Ambientalismo e globalismo: nuove ideologie politiche [Environmentalism and Globalism: New Political Ideologies]
Translated by Samuele Salvador
(Foto: Wikipedia Di Daniel Torok – Official 2025 Inauguration Invite and http://www.whitehouse.gov)
