Decline of liberalism with the "Socialist Republic of America"!

The signs of a fundamental transformation in the West have been revealed more than in the past, and this time it seems that "there is news in the West!" The change of "isms" has begun, but this time it does not take the form of a revolution, it takes the form of competition over the discourse.

According to Ambassador Arjan of Javan newspaper: the signs of a fundamental transformation in the West have become more apparent than in the past, and this time it seems that "there is news in the West!" Based on the available evidence, it can be claimed that the ever-increasing anxiety about the legitimacy of the existing frameworks in the West has now come from the margins to the text. I consider this to be one of the reasons or the main reason for all the warmongering and expansionism of the West and America, especially the recent wars, because the West has felt threatened.

The change of "isms" (schools of thought and ideologies) that appeared in the new cover of Newsweek, the concern about plutopopulism that the Financial Times discussed, and the emphasis on the immutability of Western constitutions even in the conditions of demographic change and majorities that can be heard in the words of high-ranking Western officials are two sides of this anxiety. According to a Gallup poll published in the new issue of Newsweek, 43% of American adults now have a positive view of socialism. This is the first time since 2010 that this figure exceeds 40%. More importantly, this growth is mainly due to political independents, whose positive view has increased from 37% to 47%. In contrast, the popularity of capitalism has decreased from 60% in 2021 to 54%.

The new cover of Newsweek with the headline "Socialist Republic of America" ​​and a humorous depiction of five faces of the American left is not a joke or the work of a yellow newspaper. These five figures are all riding bicycles in Mao-inspired clothing and raising a red flag! Bernie Sanders (Senator), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Congress), Abdul Al-Sayed (Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan whom Trump mocks every day), Zahran Mamdani (Mayor of New York who has become Trump's brain tumor!), and Hassan Peiker (young political and media commentator).

The combination of these five figures, from a veteran senator to a young streamer, and from a congressman to city managers and candidates for the Senate, represents a wide and multi-layered spectrum that exactly represents the process of entering the socialist discourse from the margins into the text of American politics. According to the new words of Francis Fukuyama, an American philosopher and expert in political economy, who recently said, "I am no longer a liberal, I have become a social democrat", it can be claimed that socialism in America has become more objective and has gone beyond the level of ideas and has reached the level of real figures who are gaining institutional power.

In 2008, some clerics from elite groups of France were present in the Hajj trip. In Muzdalifah, there was a cave where one of them said "In 15 years: the Islamic Republic of France"! Well, if we want to know if this statement is incorrect or just miscalculated in terms of time, we should know that a few years later, the French Minister of the Interior said with a deep sense of danger: "Even if one day Muslims become the majority in France, the Constitution of the [French] Republic is unchangeable"! Something that carries with it its own paradox. But this was not enough and such words came to the media in France many times, and among other things, in May 2025, the Minister of the Interior proposed to include in the constitution of this country: "No one can cling to his religion, beliefs or ancestry to escape from the common law [of the French Republic]"!

These statements have the same logic as the anxiety of "isms". When demographic or cultural changes are likely to change the composition of the "nation," the designers of the existing system attempt to "lock" the core principles at the constitutional level so that they are out of reach of future majority will. This defensive constitutionalism is an attempt to put the common law above the democratic will of the majority. Of course, every constitution in every country falls into this danger, but in the West they make a paradoxical version for it!

But what is the story of "Plutopopulism" that the Financial Times has addressed? Martin Wolf, the paper's chief economic commentator, coined the term to refer to the use of populist issues by wealthy elites to mobilize popular support for their oligarchic goals. The Financial Times article argues that America's business leaders initially supported Trump based on economic calculations such as tax cuts and deregulation, but now realize that he has created a rift in free trade and global alliances, and that his "reckless approach to war and trade" is at odds with business interests. When the distributional outcomes of capitalism displease the majority, a section of the capitalist elite tries to deflect the contradictions with culture wars and nationalism, but this strategy ends up harming their own economic interests, such as disrupting global supply chains and destroying relations with allies.

Certainly, the increase in popularity of socialism in America is not caused by the classic Marxist narrative of class struggle, what can be claimed for now is that this popularity is caused by very specific material problems. When faced with skyrocketing prices and job instability, the "Left" is resurgent, what observers sense from the images of French students on the street is the resurgence of the Left. However, in France and Germany, right-wing parties are more likely to win because this new right-wing in Europe is not liberal and is nationalist and caused by immigration concerns.

The change of "isms" has begun, but this time it does not take the form of a revolution, it takes the form of competition over the discourse. The rise in popularity of socialism among American youth may be an emotional reaction to the distributive inefficiency of capitalism, but it is not simply abandoning the West. War can really be used as an outlet for internal anxiety, and it can be argued that the wars waged by America, and the war against Iran, are the same. But these wars are a double-edged sword and the multilateralists are looking to cut the other edge of it!