Re: The End of the Long American Century: Trump and the Sources of U.S. Power

Link for Emmanuel Todd substack article:
https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/bons-baisers-de-russie
[Originally in French. All quotes from by Googletranslated English
version.]
Potential results of Trump's Revolution:
"Unfortunately, I now find only one additional negative factor, which
appeared to me while reading a book by Amy Chua, a Yale academic who was
a mentor to JD Vance. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of
Nations (2018) underlines, after many other texts, the unique character
of the American nation: a civic nation, founded by the adherence of all
successive immigrants to political values ​​that transcend ethnicity.
Certainly. This was the official theory very early on. But there was
also in the United States a dominant white Protestant group, which came
from a fairly long history and was fundamentally ethnic.
Since the pulverization of the Protestant group, this American nation
has become truly post-ethnic, a purely "civic" nation, theoretically
united by its attachment to its constitution and its values. Amy Chua's
fear is that America is reverting to what she calls tribalism. A
regressive pulverization.
Each European nation is, at its core, regardless of its family
structure, religious tradition, or self-image, an ethnic nation, in the
sense of a people attached to a land, with its own language, culture,
and steeped in history. Each has a stable foundation. The Russians have
that, the Germans have that, the French have that, even if they're a
little weird about these concepts these days. America no longer has
that. A civic nation? Beyond the idea, the reality of a civic American
nation deprived of morality by the zero state of religion is
mind-blowing. It's even chilling."