Donald Trump is out to be the champion of a nation. The other four candidates don’t care whether America is a nation or not as long as they can be president of it. We can not expect the Clintons who have spent 8 years at the top in Washington to be much concerned about an American nation. They will be out to play leading roles in the worldwide power poker game between states with huge piles of money and power at stake. Donald Trump wants to make America great again. But America can never be great as a nation. It can only be great when it uses its unique revolutionary political system to direct the states of the world towards good ends. The Washington government ought to become the central government of a worldwide union of states.
The American revolution needs a Napoleon. All revolutions have a teleological momentum. They can not stop until they reach the goal that was implicit at their beginning. Why did the founding fathers who created America in 1787 give the Federal Government limited sovereign powers if their goal was to create a nation? Their Constitution created a union of sovereign states and it gave Congress the power to admit new states. The real purpose of the Constitution and of America revealed itself again and again with each of the 37 additional states Congress admitted to the union over a period of 172 years up until the admission of Hawaii in 1959. A new Napoleon at the head of the Washington government would need courage and boldness but in the end like the old Napoleon he would be merely forcing America to go where history for 229 years has been pushing it to go.
Who of the five candidates for president can be the champion of the revolution? Only the one that the establishment fears. Revolutionary movements stall. Their momentum pushes them down roads that sometimes end at roadblocks. The establishment fears putting Donald Trump’s finger on the nuclear button. Translated, this means the present model of the organisation of states worldwide by American military and diplomatic power must go on in its present form forever. Rich people have vested interests in the present international status quo. A transition from a united states of America to a united states of the world would benefit both the rich and the poor by opening the whole world to political freedom and vast economic opportunities but the present model favoring the rich works well enough. Napoleons reorganize the world for the better but they cause trouble. Trouble is what our American revolution needs to get back on the right road. Donald Trump is the only one of the five presidential candidates who is troublesome.
Daniel McNeill
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