On the battlefield of the virus, the fox laughs last

Written by Alastair Crooke through the Strategic Culture Foundation,

Professor of American History USA At John Hopkins University, Mike Vlahos, in a series of short interviews with John Batchelor, he tells us how The coronavirus has become a hotbed, pushing different leaders in the United States. USA Take existential positions on how to treat this virus. Several distinct American states insisting on following directly polarized paths: compulsory "refuge" (the American term for distancing) against economic openness; States against the federal government; Blue against red; Others against GOP; "Authoritarianism" versus Leave to Do and American Traditional Liberties – and Now, Internal State, Blue-Red Conflicts (ie Ventura County vs. California Governor, on the burning issue of open or closed beaches) ; and even counties against states.

Vlahos points out that the battlefield, thanks to the virus, has become existential. It is no longer blue / red, just a handmade rhetorical pomp: it is embodied; it's organic meat; it is cut into meat, even when the future of the virus is unknown. In fact, the stranger deepens the fears. The choice: "food on the table" in a reopening of the economy (even at the real risk of the return of these "doctors of death"), or play safely, passively, with the & # 39; remoteness. The collective psyche is divided; passions are rising; Arms bloom and militias march past. It is not theater: their fervor is rooted in everyday life: masks or not; social or not; work or not

"The American constitutional order is cracking before our eyes: that we have bypassed the constitutional crisis during the last quarter of a century, this is not a guarantee: (because) each new test is even more bitterly contested and even less resolved ", Vlahos Explain:

"Today, two irreconcilable visions of American life believe that they can only last if they have complete order," said Vlahos. "However, ours has been a shared constitutional order … The only push towards this goal, especially now by Democrats in the Blue State, has damaged our constitutional order and is laying the groundwork for a large-scale crackdown on legitimacy"

The executive, who initially claimed exclusive authority over Covid's practice, backed away from the governors who claimed (and rightly so) that they enjoy joint sovereignty with the federal government. The blue and red governors, both, have completely crossed the targets, but both are blatantly exercising their respective sovereignty.

Meanwhile, Trump rides the two horses: He supports the libertarian rebels of the second amendment, while establishing a fully authoritarian and federalized bailout economy at the top of which he will chair: having completed their coup by merging the Treasury and the Fed, as a single printing works (dollar), and at the top of a cascading cornucopia of cornucopia.

Today, there are two irreconcilable visions of American life. After 1992, the two parties alternated presidents every eight years. However, with each subsequent administration, the political environment became even more wicked and divided. Now there is no relationship between the parties: except as sworn enemies, Vlahos watch.