The American media was quickly filled with conversations about the administration of Joe Biden, who will become the president of January 20 next year. Everyone is discussing already announced appointments: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Finance, the National Security Council, economic advisers-as well as candidates for those positions that Bidden has not yet made decisions: Prosecutor General of Justice, Minister of Defense and others. The main changes in foreign policy are discussed - the return to the Paris Climate Agreement, the restoration of previous relations with NATO allies, attempts to return to an agreement with Iran, the transition to a more consistent policy of deterrence of China, etc.

Biden’s policy is external, that internal, for a long time will be the subject for discussion - at least four years. An interesting question now, in the last weeks of the presidency of Donald Trump, what was it? An insignificant episode in American political history or a serious change of those that happen once every few decades?

No matter how many fans of President Trump would like to consider him a large reformer, in support of the thesis “Trump is just a temporary reaction to too fast changes”, a kind of side effect of progress, there are many arguments. Important Trump support groups are those who fear changes. Those who scare deviations from a long -advisable order: the order in which the president is a tall white man, economic power belongs to the same, large and white men, women have a role intended for them, the birth of children, homosexuality or transgenderness are perceived as a deviation from the “norm”, and “alien” (an emigrant or just a citizen with a different skin color) - as a threat. During the election campaign, Trump hinted at these fears at the post of president and during the election campaign: calling the Mexicans “rapists”, and white Suprematists - “good people”, then suddenly starting the campaign against transgender people in military service.

Of course, it is unfair to record those who supported Trump, to racists or homophobes. Homosexual marriages are now supported in all social groups in America - including those who voted for Trump. President Trump for the first time in the history of the United States made open homosexual, director of national intelligence, special services coordinator Richard Grenella member of the Cabinet of Ministers. In 2016, citizens who had previously voted for Barack Obama made a decisive contribution to the victory of Trump over Hillary Clinton - that is, obviously focusing on the candidate’s race. And yet those who scare the changes, the arrival of “strangers” and “others” were an important part of Trump’s coalition-no wonder the Trump politician began his career with the promotion of the false theory that Obama was born abroad.

If Trump really owes his presidential “fear of changes”, then what is surprised? Changes over the past decades have occurred huge - the world has become different. For tens of millions of Americans, life has become much better - primarily for an educated layer, the upper middle class. Not just a standard of living has grown - it has grown greatly relative to the rest (not counting the rich - their life has become even better). But for other tens of millions - those who have been a middle -class nucleus for decades - the standard of living has not grown so much. Regarding the rest - both richer educated and the poorer - he even fell. In this situation, the answer to the question “who is to blame”, who proposed Trump, is “strangers”, Mexicans, China, “elite”, is attractive primarily by its simplicity. Close the borders, drive those who got out, in their place, “do it as it was under the Reagan-father”-looks like a bad policy from the point of view of experts, but it is proposed not to believe the experts.

The thesis “Trump is just aberration” is also supported by the fact that the president did not manage to do in four years. For two years, the Republican Party controlled both the executive and legislative power, but no serious reforms with the name Trump were connected. Reducing taxes without reducing expenses and with a zero interest rate on debt is good, but simple: approximately like the distribution of free ice cream on a hot day. The Trump administration worked hard on the basis of the economy deregulation, but here everything that Trump did with the help of administrative procedures, President Biden will easily and calmly cancel. In foreign policy, the traces of Trump will remain: it is possible that Biden will continue Trump’s policy in several directions, for example, Arab-Israeli, with another rhetoric, but the foreign policy of the Americans excites little. When voting, they do not pay attention to it.

The names of ministers and advisers, announced by Biden, also say that Trump's presidency is perceived as aberration, a temporary deviation from the progressive movement forward. All as one-either occupied similar posts from President Obama, or were one or two steps lower. But even if these are the same people, they have a completely different task. Whether Trump was aberration or not, he appeared as a politician due to the fact that previous presidents, that the republican, that democratic, could not solve the problems of tens of millions of Americans and did not want to hear when voters talked about this.

Trump, perhaps, was a reaction to the election of Obama by the president. But in the same way he was a reaction to unjustified hopes to Obama's presidency. Over the past four years, the situation has not become better-and that means that American voters still need a politician Trump.

Well, or someone whose election even better sits in the unresolved problems.

Donald Trump is a symbol of American problems