Melby has been associated with the Department of Defense Studies and the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Policy, and he has written books on American politics. He passes a crushing judgment on Trump and those who voted for him.
– Then what happened that I didn’t think was possible for the longest time, that the American voters have knowingly and willfully elected a totally immoral convicted fascist coup plotter as president, he writes on Facebook.
No serious country elects such a “totally indecent person as president”, Melby believes.
A new United States
Melby understands that frustrated voters in protest against the political elite elected Trump as president in 2016.
– But after eight years where Trump has clearly appeared to be an anti-democrat, such an explanation does not hold, he believes.
– If you are to distribute the responsibility for this election result, you cannot escape the American political and economic elite’s years-long ignorance of large groups’ growing problems, he believes.
Gets big results
With Trump as president, a new United States will emerge, and the consequences for the rest of the world could be great, warns Melby.
– The USA with its exceptionalist self-image and understanding of international roles on which we have based ourselves, and which with its combination of soft power and hard power has constituted the very anchor point in international politics, the USA no longer exists, he believes.
– Gone is the will to define support for democracy as part of their national interests. Gone is now also the basic belief in collective arrangements, notes Melby.
– Poor Ukraine and the collective security order in Europe, is his sigh.
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