President Donald J. Trump’s Plan to ‘Make America Bourgeois Again’
President Trump ran on an America first platform. His mantra was MAGA – Make America Great Again. President Trump in his inaugural address said:
Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another – but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.
When President Trump attends a rally, speaks at a press conference or Tweets, he is talking directly to America’s “bourgeois class.” Bourgeois is defined as “a member of the middle class.”
Who will make America great, again?
In an August 9th, 2017 Philadelphia Inquirer article titled Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture Amy Wax and Larry Alexander defined America’s bourgeois culture. Wax and Alexander wrote,
That [bourgeois] culture laid out the script we all were supposed to follow:
Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime.
Supporters of Barack Obama at a rally.
Politicians have wooed the bourgeois class as did former President Barack Obama. Once elected, however, the bourgeois class have been either ignored or suffered under various administrations.
In a April 22nd, 2014 New York Times column titled Losing the Lead: The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy reported:
The American middle [bourgeois] class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction.
While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades.
After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada — substantially behind in 2000 — now appear to be higher than in the United States. The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans.
The bourgeois class is President Trump’s base and the bedrock of people who will make America great again.
What are the challenges to making America bourgeois again?
Wax and Alexander pointed out in their article:
Did everyone abide by those [bourgeois culture] precepts? Of course not. There are always rebels — and hypocrites, those who publicly endorse the norms but transgress them. But as the saying goes, hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. Even the deviants rarely disavowed or openly disparaged the prevailing expectations.
Today there are many “deviants” who openly disavow and disparage the most basic bourgeois cultural norms.
Who are the bourgeois culture deviants? Who are the hypocrites? Who are the transgressors? Here is a short list:
- Those who labled the $1,000 bonuses given to workers as “crumbs.”
- Hollywood which no longer makes films about the bourgeois class.
- Those who do not serve their country and are openly unpatriotic.
- Those who would rather be idle rather than work
- Those politicians who subsidize idleness and sloth.
- Those who create sanctuaries for those who abuse drugs and other addictive substances.
- Those who on radio, television, in music and during the day use course language.
- Those who are not respectful of the duly elected President of these United States.
Wax and Alexander noted:
[T]hose adults with influence over the [bourgeois] culture, for a variety of reasons, abandoned their role as advocates for respectability, civility, and adult values. As a consequence, the counterculture made great headway, particularly among the chattering classes — academics, writers, artists, actors, and journalists — who relished liberation from conventional constraints and turned condemning America and reviewing its crimes into a class marker of virtue and sophistication.
Making America Bourgeois Again!
President Trump and his administration have made it their sole mission to restore America’s bourgeois class. Washington, D.C. does not want to empower the bourgeois class because as President Trump pointed out during his inaugural address,
Washington flourished – but the people did not share in its wealth.
Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.
Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation’s Capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
Today there is much to celebrate, especially for the bourgeois class. Make America Bourgeois Again!
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