MAGA "Make America great again" (make America great again) first appeared during Reagan's campaign against Carter. It served as Reagan's policy platform and campaign slogan.
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When this slogan appears, we generally think:
This means that for the person who put forward this slogan, he has already faced crises and challenges, his national prestige is no longer, and his status is affected. At this time, we have to talk about the concept of reinvigorating national prestige.
It’s 2021. It’s exactly forty-one years from 1980 to today. There are two presidents, the same slogan, different worlds, different problems, and different America. How did the United States come here? If these two presidents have the same slogan, different worlds, different problems, and different America. What does it mean that the two slogans are established simultaneously? Means several possibilities?
One possibility is that the United States has not succeeded in 40 years. Of course this is unrealistic. In fact, it means another picture: when Reagan proposed MAGA, the United States began to walk out of the trough to the peak for a series of reasons, and finally ushered in its glory. When its glory was over, it encountered some problems and finally began to need another president. It also called out MAGA, hoping to lead the United States to the top again, and Donald Trump came into being.
1. MAGA completely fails in the face of the new crown epidemic
As of the end of September 2020, the cumulative number of deaths from the new crown epidemic in the United States has exceeded the 200,000 mark, and 200,000 Americans have died due to the new crown epidemic in more than 200 days. Some people say that this is not a big deal. Hundreds of thousands of people die every year during the flu season in the United States. This is just a big flu.
However, when the new crown virus began to spread in the United States, Dr. Fauci, who played the role of Captain America in the fight against the epidemic, made a point on TV: "The new crown is not the same as the flu. The flu It is a seasonal disease. Seasonal disease means that it can be predicted when it will break out, how the curve will rise, how the turning point, how will it fall, and how to prevent and treat people who have the flu. Our medical mechanism has a Set a very mature mechanism to deal with it.
But the new crown is an additional new infectious disease. What we have to do in front of this infectious disease is to solve it, to control it, and to work hard to smooth its upward curve, but the difference between the epidemic and the flu is that there is no special medicine. , Without a vaccine, you need society, the state, the government, and the people to collaborate effectively.
But it is clear that we now see the situation: to a certain extent, the United States has shown such a side, it has a president who shouts all day to make the United States great again and to regain its national prestige, but when a crisis really strikes, The president failed to effectively control it, or the method he took to control it, which he believed to be effective, was actually proved to be a failure by the confirmed data and death data.
Recently, a Donald Trump video on Weibo was reposted in large numbers, and US President Donald Trump was taking questions from reporters on the lawn. The reporter asked him: 200,000 people died from the new crown virus. What do you think of this matter? After Donald Trump heard this question, he shook his head, shook his head, shook his mouth, and said: Next, he will not answer at all.
Such behavior seems to show his very personal style, but when we calm down, take out all the emotional factors, and look at it objectively: Forty years later,Donald Trump, with the slogan of reviving the nation’s prestige , The inability to respond effectively to the impact and challenges brought about by the new crown virus in the United States tells us a simple fact—the United States today may have more problems than it was forty years ago.
Our course is to solve this problem and tell you how did the United States get to this point? How did the United States successfully rise in the first place? How did he succeed in showing the world a rising power and a super hegemon in the latter part of the Cold War and in the early period after the end of the Cold War? How did the United States get lost step by step in its own success, and finally fell into a very embarrassing situation today? Why was it not defeated by an external state actor, but crushed by its own success?
2. Reagan led the United States to realize its rise in his sense
For forty years, these two presidents have used the same campaign slogan very subtlely. When Reagan started competing for the White House 40 years ago, the United States had three major problems:
From a global perspective, the United States faces the Soviet Union under the aggressive Brezhnev leadership. Although the United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1979 by easing relations with the People's Republic of China, to hedge against the Soviet Union's global expansion. But in terms of the actual situation, the Soviet Union's southward strategy reached a peak after the occupation of Afghanistan. The United States is in a passive defensive position at a critical global strategic location, and this strategic squeeze from the Soviet Union must be resolved.
Economically, stagnation and inflation bother the United States. It has no way to find effective strategies to break through the economic downturn.
At that time, the American people were still deeply rooted in the shadow of the so-called Vietnam War. Although it was later discovered that by the early 1980s, this shadow had begun to enter its later stages. However, how to boost the spirit of the American people and guide them in the right direction became a question that politicians from all walks of life in the United States had to answer.
At this time Reagan was born, he was a very dramatic figure, and he had a very deep understanding of the United States. He caught a few points:
He effectively boosted the American spirit. For this we can choose a series of Hollywood movies as a classic analysis. From the perspective of the "First Blood" series, it has undergone a development-from reflecting on the war, to winning the lost war on the screen, to predicting on the screen that it will win an ongoing war.
The first returning veteran was treated unfairly at home and suffered a mental out-of-control trauma syndrome. The second part returns to Vietnam, rescues the hostages, and cleans up the internal borers by the way. The third part went to the Afghan battlefield with old comrades-in-arms and beat the Soviets to their knees.
After boosting the spirit of the Americans, Reagan also carried out small-scale military interventions abroad. At the same time as the invasion of Grenada, they actively projected their power in international hotspots to show the muscles of the US
More importantly, on domestic economic issues, Reagan threw out neoliberalism, this basic solution to reduce control, and successfully contributed to the rapid growth of the US economy from about 1983 and 1984. This rapid growth has injected vitality into American society, and at the same time has brought tremendous initiative to the United States' foreign strategy.
In sharp contrast, the Soviet Union, the most important strategic competitor of the United States, has encountered economic problems. The reasons for the problems encountered in the development process are actually similar to those of the United States. That is, there is no restraint, no borders, no clear goal to stop. Excessive foreign expansion affects the driving force of its own development. Expansion has become a burden, so the offensive and defensive forces of both sides are gradually adjusted.
This offensive and defensive trend gradually affected the perception of the Soviet leaders through a series of negotiation and communication, causing the Soviet leaders to produce some typical misjudgments. Reagan slowly brought the United States out of the shadow of the Vietnam War for everyone to see. To a brand new image. Looking back forty years later, this starting point for reinvigorating the nation's prestige is to some extent as arranged by fate, but also infused with three vital factors that ultimately led to the decline of the United States:
1. It interrupted the process of rational reflection on the goals of global hegemony that began with Nixon, and the United States established a process of rational reflection on the goals of global hegemony, and re-established global expansion as its strategic goal.
In other words, Reagan did not realize that the reason he was able to successfully reinvigorate the nation’s prestige was actually because the United States’ rational and limited contraction had accumulated some strategic surplus for his short-term rejuvenation policy. After Reagan slowly consumed this part of the strategic surplus, he conceptually returned to the direction of unlimited expansion that was in fact doomed to be wrong.
2. Economically, neo-conservatism's worship of the omnipotence of the market was deeply implanted in the American economic system. Tax cuts, reduced regulations, reduced government size, reduced government functions, and outsourcing of related functions to the market have become a golden rule.
Because of the obvious ratcheting effect in public policies (referring to the irreversibility of people’s consumption habits after the formation, that is, it is easy to adjust upwards but difficult to adjust downwards), similar to strategies such as reducing taxes and reducing controls. Finally, it brought a major change to the United States-it changed from the world's largest creditor country to the world's largest debtor country. Originally, the world owed the United States money, and later the United States owed the world money.
Because the Reagan administration’s rejuvenation of national prestige was essentially spending money, and he was fortunate that the previous U.S. president laid him a better foundation. He has money to spend, and almost unlimited money can be spent, so in the short term Inside, he can stimulate and expand through this way of spending money. However, when this kind of expansion becomes a routine, you will find that the results are not satisfactory.
Today, Donald Trump took a look at it. The dilemma he encountered is that the space where the United States can spend money is actually very limited. He can only spend money by borrowing, and borrowing has an upper limit. If he really wants to borrow unlimitedly, the risk is actually much greater than before.
According to the general research results of the financial industry: the real root of the 2008 financial crisis in the United States came from the Reagan administration’s unrestricted easing strategy and deregulation in the financial field. In the short term, it is effective, but when this kind of control becomes the only option, the disadvantage of deregulation is to drag the superpower of the United States from the altar.
3. Reagan combined his military power, high technology, and the United States' global strategy to create a technological power and an image of global military hegemony.
The Soviet Union was dragged in through the on-screen rejuvenation of national prestige, economic neoliberalism, and an arms race with new technological features.
Reagan led the United States to achieve a rise in his sense. Of course, judging from the development of world history, what is very interesting during this period is that, opposite Reagan the Soviet Union matched such a leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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