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The present article analyzes the construction of a key foundation of the movement (or ideology) known as "Trumpism" (or "Trumpist"), which is linked to the United States' drug policy and its relationship with Mexico. Firstly, it describes the origins of an anti-narcotics and border security strategy proposed by former President Donald Trump in 2017 and amplified by sympathetic politicians and supporters who consider a possible military intervention in Mexico as an electoral strategy in 2024. This analysis highlights the elements of misinformation and propaganda of the Trumpist strategy and revisits the use of psychological operations--outlined from the perspective of the U.S. Army manuals and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)--as a tool for persuasion and electoral marketing. The text serves as an analytical framework to explain part of the political discourse of Trumpism within the context of the 2024 elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that to understand the impact of former U.S. President Donald Trump on the U.S.-Mexico border, his presidential agenda needs to be compared with other presidential administrations from the 1990s to the present. It looks at presidential policy agendas, as seen in executive orders, legislative policies, binational initiatives, deployment of the National Guard and military, presidential visits, and use of the bully pulpit with visits to the border region. These are compared to border operations indicators, highlighting formal and informal crossings of people and movement of goods. Though Mr. Trump has been specifically negative and aggressive toward the border, the securitization of the region has been part of presidential agendas since the 1990s. A key takeaway is to think about and discuss these results to ensure the border is livable, manageable and ready for the challenges of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The election of President Donald J. Trump in 2016 introduced a new foreign policy, one that holds certain aspects of traditional schools of thought in international relations but is unique in that it does not prescribe to any one theory or academic framework. It does, however, contain foundational pillars that are essential to understand the cause and effect of President Trump's foreign policy. Through careful review of President Trump's prepared foreign policy speeches and interviews with Trump administration officials, this article argues that a return to nation-state sovereignty and burden sharing are the most important pillars of President Trump's foreign policy, known as America First or "Trumpism". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking a long-term historical perspective, this article delves into the history of sifting political orders and far-right rebellions in the United States, examining their profound impact on US-Mexico relations. Far-right rebellions are complex political phenomena, deeply rooted in three distinct American political traditions and movements: populism, illiberalism, and isolationism. All three have periodically reshaped the landscape of American politics, notably during transitions such as the current crisis facing the Washington Consensus and the liberal international order. In the past, US-Mexico relations appeared insulated from those far-right rebellions that periodically emerge from political transitions. However, this is no longer the case. The rise of Trumpism today has established the foundational framework for a new era of strained US-Mexico relations amid escalating geopolitical instability on a global scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text stresses the diabolic spectre of Trumpism, a set of mechanisms for autocracy and authoritarianism, to redefine the United States while Trump's supporters perceive America as a nation and an idea that have forgotten and betrayed them. Consequently, they deny the "religious" and mythical founding principles of the nation defending a "new religion". Trump, the high priest of this "new religion", and Trumpism represent a crisis of faith around the socalled American civil religion and announce the possible final collapse of an imagined American sustained cultural identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La actual turbulencia cultural en los Estados Unidos de América deriva del fenómeno político del Trumpismo, enraizado en un concepto desarrollado por John Higham llamado nativismo. Un americanismo de doble eje se ha desfigurado en una mutua y destructiva interacción. El americanismo vertical establece un orden jerarquizado que asegura el poder de una clase blanca dominante en una sociedad homogénea racial y culturalmente. El americanismo horizontal, basado en los ideales de Martin Luther King Jr. y Barack Obama, busca lograr la igualdad entre razas, creencias y clases sociales diversas. La línea del color (en términos de Dubois) deviene en un límite cuya actual tensión máxima separa estos dos ejes, desfigurando culturalmente a la nación.

In this article, I theorize urban displacement as an anti-democratic politics that emerged and intensified at planetary scale in the last fifty years. I call this assault on the conditions of possibility of democratization organized displacement. As democracy has increasingly taken an urban character across the globe, I argue that organized displacement has emerged as a counter-politics. Organized displacement has two constitutive features: social cleansing and urbicide. The goal of this politics is to undermine the heterogeneity of social life in the name of creating an urban order. Finally, I argue that a theory of organized displacement reveals that the relationship between Trump and other right-wing figures is not simply based on a similarity of political forms. Rather, right-wing politics has been constituted through global practices of urban displacement. Trump, then, is not the originator of a new politics. Rather, he can be characterized alongside Bolsonaro and Mugabe as an exemplar of an anti-democratic politics of displacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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