BarcelonaI couldn't help but borrow from the American writer Siri Hustvedt the substance of the article she published a month ago in the newspaper Le Monde. Inevitable, because what I have not stopped asking myself for months, she has also been asking herself, and she has answered it clearly with "Fascism in the United States", a writing where Hustvedt -widow of the novelist Paul Auster- assures that she lives in "a routine tinged with fear", that she faces a reality where in the press there is a list of the 199 words to be avoided by the Trump government: black, diverse, gay and women.
Siri Hustvedt's haunting narration connects with that of journalist Julia Angwin, who explains to the New York Times what does he do DOGE, the administrative structure set up by Elon Musk: Well, to set up a surveillance system and simultaneously compile records on an immense amount of critical information that affects the majority of citizens. More than the major technology brands already have. Surveillance like never before seen in the United States. "The database of ruin," concludes Julia Angwin. The surveillance of a totalitarian state.
What to do or what to do? Siri Hustvedt is committed to confronting the censorship and repression that is coming, while Jason Stanley, historian and professor at Yale University, has chosen to leave the US and will be in Canada teaching at the University of Toronto in the fall. Stanley is of Jewish origin; his grandparents fled Nazism, and he too is fleeing because he doesn't want his children to "grow up under fascism." The title of the book he published in 2018 was a harbinger: How fascism works and how it entered your lifeJason Stanley's grief mingles with Amnesty International's warnings about how The Trump effect is accelerating the human rights crisis around the world. And at the Pulitzer Prize ceremony, the mechanisms of Trumpism that silence criticism, rewrite history, and undermine the constitutional right to a free press and freedom of opinion were denounced.
Tariff Countdown
We are running out of the 90 days announced by Trump to establish the tariff system.. By July 10th, things will be known. Or not. Because there's always the possibility that everything will be advanced, delayed, or left in who knows what. However, since the New York Times Analyst Rebecca Petterson makes it clear that "the damage has already been done." Various sectors of the US economy have lost confidence in the situation, and there's no guarantee that Trump's shocks could turn into a disaster. Following the echo of the alerts and alarms, economist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman is wary of using the adjective. extremeto define the situation, while recalling that in 2018 he already spoke of the threat of fascism. Another Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, explains in detail how Trump is building "the largest tax haven in the world."
In 100 days in office—filled with rhetorical juggling, insults, threats, and lies—Trump's social support has fallen to 39%, but it doesn't matter: he says the polls are fake. And while he acts as both bad cop and good cop, Trump makes a deal with Ukraine to mine rare earths -a plunder-and Zelensky accepts it. It seems to be stalling. Meanwhile, Putin watches silently. Perhaps he rubs his hands together and sees that Trump isn't the resurgence of eternal America but the beginning of its decline. But beware, because the Russian president himself hasn't yet realized that his imperial revival is also a mirage.
