What is it about President-elect Obama that has made his rise so rapid and apparently unstoppable? According to French historian Alexandre Adler, Obama had the intuition to detect a political tidal wave in the collapse of the Reagan program, and the genius to know what to do about it.
In his latest article for France’s Le Figaro, Adler writes in part:
“Obama’s intuition serves him well in this situation of irreversible global crisis, the matrix of which was adopted long ago by America’s ruling class – that is to say, with the advent of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Reagan also arrived at the heart of a great crisis, albeit a geopolitical one. The Reagan program consisted of forming a purely political exterior coalition that included Europe, China and Japan. At the same time, he adopted a domestic policy of dismantling the fundamental structures of a declining Democratic Party. In exchange, the end of trade unionism was effectively compensated by full employment in the service sector, jobs that paid mediocre wages and the promise of property ownership for all. Today, all the elements issuing from this matrix have broken down … The genius of Barack Obama was to be the first to register in his candidacy a dual refusal in regard to relations between unions and corporations and the extension of the Reagan model.
Chronicle of Alexandre Adler
Translated By L. McKenzie Zeiss
January 17, 2009
France – Le Figaro – Original Article (French)
How sweet it is, for someone like me who has the difficult job of foretelling the immediate future, to finally have the power to predict a major occurrence already scheduled for months: the investiture of Barack Obama. It is without doubt a huge event. This will be the inauguration of the first Black president of the United States, and the second president – after Abraham Lincoln – from the industrial state of Illinois [Reagan was born there, but was elected after being governor of California]. Obama will also be the second president – after Franklin Roosevelt this time – to take up his mandate in the heart of an economic depression the magnitude of which indicates an inevitable “paradigm shift,” or to put it more simply, a great transformation of an economic and social structure that has reached its historical limits.
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