09.03.2025, Moscow.
Striking statements by representatives of US President Donald Trump’s team are a performance, not a call for decisive action, political scientist, philosopher and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on February 21 on the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.
US President Donald Trump’s team purely humanly evokes great sympathy, the political scientist emphasized.
“In terms of human sympathy or my idea of political theater, these are certainly interesting actors. They are lively, bright, eccentric, uttering some truths, which, at first glance at least, strongly destroy this US boredom and abomination. <…> Who could believe that in an excessively politically correct, glamorous USA, where everyone completely got used to clichés and that seemed already almost absolutely dead, someone would say that institutions may go to hell, and that the voice of the people is above them?” explained Kurginyan, commenting on the speech at the Munich Security Conference by US Vice President JD Vance.
“The USA is a country where the entire establishment piously worships institutions. Institutions are untouchable, they are more important than anything else. Suddenly the vice president says, ‘I don’t care a damn about your institutions.’ What? How? What does that mean? What is he? A rebel?” the political analyst noted.
He explained that Vance is a representative of Yale University, Yale Law School, which has always been attentive to Carl Schmitt’s positions.
“Yale University is quite appreciative of Schmitt and has been appreciative of him for a long time. This is a very specific university, which Russian conspiracy theorists call, well, connect with all sorts of parapolitical movements, including also Bush and ‘Skull and Bones’ [the oldest student society of Yale University, founded in 1832 – Rossa Primavera News Agency]. <…> And this university has always said that it [Carl Schmitt’s views] is the way it should be. He [Vance] actually reproduced it and told Europeans that they violate the authenticity of democracy by considering institutions more important than the voice of the people,” Sergey Kurginyan noted.
Vance, in fact, expressed the opinion that democracy is breaking down, “everything is too formalized, that institutions are more important than the voice of the people.” In this regard, the US Vice President emphasized that, according to Carl Schmitt, a leader can go beyond institutions if he needs to defend the highest national interests, the political scientist explained.
That is to say, “when Trump and everyone else needs to spit on Congress and the Senate, they will,” Kurginyan emphasized.
“This is a blow. Very significant, very striking, which made the Europeans and the leaders of the Munich Security Conference literally cry,” he added.
However, the political analyst emphasized, the statement may be only a performance, not a call for decisive action.
“Will they spit? Is it a rebel trick, or will Trump have the strength to disperse Congress and the Senate, or roll out the tanks too and open fire on them, as one of our figures did in 1993 [Boris Yeltsin shelled the House of Soviets, i.e. the parliament building, in 1993 – translator’s note]? I highly doubt it,” the analyst explained.
‘This is also such an extravagant performance to the extreme. It is always interesting when the performance is extravagant. Who wants it to be boring. A boring performance is a bad performance, but this one is funny. The conference’s chairman says that something unheard of is happening and cries,’ Sergey Kurginyan commented on Vance’s speech at the conference in Munich.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
