When Trump came to power, the foundations of the West were shaken in the face of what seemed like the impending cataclysm. Some countries like Mexico felt the epicenter of the world earthquake, and the intellectuals of the Central American country soon demonstrated against the new figure of the president of the United States.
One of those intellectuals is the writer and Jorge Volpi, author of this book in which he shows his concerns about Trump's electoral promises and his almost accomplished facts regarding the deal with his neighbor to the south.
But beyond the interpretation of the effects of the new North American government on Mexico, in this book Against Trump We are presented with a worrying scenario, determined in the light of the ideals and the first facts that Trump is leaving behind.
The truth is that it was coming. It was something of a sinister self-fulfilling prophecy that America's voters joked about, but has found a niche to materialize. Under the public demonstration of intellectuals, people of culture and music or even big businessmen, almost all of them Trump detractors, a huge social mass has finally opted for the tycoon, entrusting their future to his proclamations in defense of the USA against to all external agents. With the idea that only navelism can maintain the status of US citizens, allowing a distribution of wealth to the working class, Trump has conquered so many affected by the crisis.
It is what there is, in hard times it is easy for the speaker on duty to turn the strange into a threat and the different into an offense. This is how a misogynist and xenophobe has reached the top of the world's leading country.
Jorge Volpi's idea with this book is to mobilize as in the past, turning this book into a pamphlet, a sarcastic libel with which to seek awareness and sanity. A different way of fighting against populism, over and above the usual lukewarm policy formulas that are no longer relevant to the people.
You can buy the book Against Trump, Jorge Volpi's new book, here: