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On Trump's Presidency

By Trent Trepanier

January 20th, 2025 will be an infamous day in the history books for everyone who values peace and cooperation over conflict, justice over corruption.

It was this day that Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. His inauguration speech declared a new “golden age” of America was beginning,and this all was couched in the language of restoring, reclaiming, and the liberation of America. Following the speech, Trump signed his first round of executive orders, which included, among many others, withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Treaty, withdrawing from the World Health Organization, mandating federal workers return to in-person work full-time, and directing agencies to end government censorship. According to CBS News, Trump signed almost 200 executive actions, proclamations, and memoranda. From the perspective of Trump’s “America First” ideology, his actions amount to a “revolution of common sense.”

It is nothing short of a travesty that the world’s largest economy with the third largest population and most powerful military is leaving the globe’s most universal climate agreement and health organization. “America first,” though, is just the latest iteration of nationalistic chauvinism, of the failure of such “common sense” which refuses to challenge itself and learn from its past mistakes to work toward a future which previous generations could only imagine. It is the perfect ideology for the lazy, for those who lack the courage to value making their children proud over their parents.. Trump, however, is only a symptom and not a root cause of anything. In far too many places democratic norms, rules, and beliefs are sliding backward as nations revert to protectionist trade policies and mere transactional politics. The hollowing out of middle classes in high-income countries is shifting the rule of the people to the rule of money.

Atlas stands opposed to such an ideology which looks to a fictionalized past when the marginalized were not thought of precisely because they were excluded and trodden upon. We fight for not only the democracy of today, but for a world where both power and wealth are democratized, in which no country’s interests are unbound from those of the world’s. Trump’s inauguration was certainly a day of remorse, of fear, and of resignation, but a day is all that can be afforded. The survival of life on our planet has not and never will be certain, now more than ever. We are fighting to offer an alternative which places survival at the very forefront of our platform. We urge you to join us by supporting our campaign for United Nations Secretary General, promoting our Survival Bill, and standing with us in elections at every level of government. The fight will be long with many losses, of which this is one, but it is one which is not over.

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