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data-category="Opinion"><article elid="2671209190" data-frozen-sections="[]" class="clearfix image-article sm-mb-1 quality-HD post-2671209190"><div class="row px10"><div class="rm-col-center col sm-mb-1" style="width:100.0%;"><div class="widget__head"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/extreme-center-helped-afd" aria-label="How Germany's Extreme Center Fueled AfD's Success"><img role="img" type="lazy-image" alt="AfD leaders. celebrate German election results. 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" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1245 700'%3E%3C/svg%3E" data-runner-src="https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/afd-leaders-celebrate-german-election-results.jpg?id=56580483&width=1245&height=700&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C287%2C0%2C287" style="object-fit: cover;" class="rm-lazyloadable-image" width="1245" height="700"/></a></div><div class="widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1"><h2 class="widget__headline h2"><a class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/extreme-center-helped-afd" aria-label="How Germany's Extreme Center Fueled AfD's Success" data-type="text"> How Germany's Extreme Center Fueled AfD's Success </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>As they united around neoliberalism and an aggressive foreign policy, mainstream parties created a dangerous democratic vacuum. This vacuum can now be exploited in particular by extremist parties on the right.</p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMTk3ODM3OC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc5NDAxMDQ0NH0.kOpXvB4ZI7-0T2Aj3SbF6e0Kmxa8hLCAZHCxblSUQMA/image.jpg?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/david-goessmann" data-type="text">David Goessmann</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Feb 25, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671209190" data-headline="How Germany's Extreme Center Fueled AfD's Success"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p> According to the preliminary results of the Bundestag, or parliamentary, elections, the extreme right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the second-strongest force in Germany. It now has 20.8% of the vote, doubling its result compared to the last election. The conservative CDU/CSU got 28.5%. The Social Democrats and the Greens, who have been in government so far, were punished, receiving 16.4 and 11.6% of the vote, respectively. </p><p> However, the party Die Linke was able to achieve a success. For a long time, it was stuck in polls well below the 5%, which is the mark to enter the Bundestag. But in a final sprint, it was able to significantly increase the result and garner 8.7%. Above all, strong speeches by Member of Parliament Heidi Reichinnek against the anti-migration agenda of all other parties and for real social change were <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/19/hard-left-german-leader-heidi-reichinnek-surges-in-polls/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">able to mobilize</a>. </p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p> Now the established parties and the mainstream press are engaging in the usual complaints and soul-searching about how things could have come to this. In the face of the rapid rise of the Alternative for Germany, journalists and political commentators <a href="https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/aktuell/AfD-Umfragehoch-Nicht-einer-sondern-acht-Gruende,afdanalyse102.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">often say</a> that dissatisfaction with the established parties is the reason why more and more people are voting for the AfD. The dissatisfaction is then mostly seen as created by "mass immigration," the rejection of climate protection, and a left-liberal view of society ("wokeness")—in other words, a growing front against overly left-wing, progressive, liberal politics. This is seen to be the central cause of the shift to the right in society. Politicians must now respond to this. </p><p class="pull-quote"> The political class is reaping what is has sown and now is shedding crocodile tears about the results. </p><p> This is a narrative that is not only convenient and leads to false right-wing solutions, but also distorts reality by blaming those who are supposedly rebelling against progressive politics and thinking backward. At the same time, the other parties and their supporters appear as a haven of reason and morality, striving to hold society together. </p><p> The thesis that a shift to the right in the population is the reason for the rapid rise of the AfD also obscures the root of the problem. Looking closer, large portions of today's AfD voters have by no means been attracted to the AfD and its better policy proposals. </p><p> Even significant portions of AfD voters agree with the majority of Germans on polls that <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/06/fairness-favored-europes-refugee-crisis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">favor a fair solution</a> to <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/05/survey-4-in-5-worldwide-welcome-refugees/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">refugee protection</a> and a quarter believe that the energy transition <a href="https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/politik/afd-und-bsw-w%C3%A4hler-lehnen-energiewende-mehrheitlich-ab/ar-AA1sUvTL" target="_blank">is indispensable</a>; <a href="https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2024/07/umfrage-brandenburg-rechtsextremismus-auslaenderfeindlichkeit.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">only a few</a> describe themselves as extreme right and "only" 40% have right-wing tendencies. Most of them <a href="https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/neues/forschungsnachrichten/forschungsnachrichten-single/newsdetails/das-afd-paradox" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">demand a social policy</a> that benefits them, as many of them are unemployed or low-income earners, while the AfD takes a diametrically opposed, extreme position on all these issues, and <a href="https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/afd-programm-plan-reiche-11116099.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">their neoliberal program</a> would make the rich even richer and the poor poorer. </p><p> In fact, more and more people were driven from the so-called "extreme center" into the arms of the AfD. In some ways, the political class is reaping what is has sown and now is shedding crocodile tears about the results. </p><p> The term "extreme center" was coined 10 years ago by the British intellectual Tariq Ali <a href="https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-extreme-centre-a-warning/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in his book</a><em>The Extreme Centre: A Warning</em>. It essentially refers to what often is referred to as "bourgeois parties," "parties of the political center," "established parties," sometimes also as "democratic parties" or "parties capable of forming a government." In Germany, these are the CDU/CSU, SPD, the liberals FDP, and the Greens. They distinguish themselves from the "extremes" on the left and right, which they regard as a danger to society and democracy, and see themselves as a force that balances interests and creates harmony. </p><p> According to Tariq Ali, the parties of the so-called center have been indistinguishable from each other in important policy areas since the 1980s. In the Western industrialized countries, a kind of "government of national unity" has emerged. It has implemented and maintained extreme policies—including the neoliberal turn and an aggressively oriented foreign policy under U.S. leadership—against the needs of the general population. </p><p> In the process, the space for alternative policy proposals and democratic debate has been reduced to a minimum. It created a dangerous democratic vacuum. This vacuum can now be exploited in particular by extremist parties on the right. </p><p> Let's take a look at how the "non-partisan political class, beyond particular interests" has operated in Germany in recent decades. Since the 1990s (or even earlier, in the years under chancellor Helmut Kohl, CDU), various governing coalitions have implemented policies that have led to Germany becoming the country in Europe with the greatest material and social inequality. </p><p> On the one hand, the established parties created a high concentration of wealth through <a href="https://www.boeckler.de/de/auf-einen-blick-17945-20845.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">various neoliberal measures</a>. On the other hand, parts of the middle class were put under financial pressure. A huge low-wage sector was built up, widespread poverty (especially child and old-age poverty) was created, and the welfare state was dismantled. </p><p> Many services that people in the country rely on to live in safety have been commercialized, privatized, and "streamlined." The state of Germany's railways, healthcare system, pensions, agriculture, real estate markets, and education systems shows where this has led. Once in comparatively good condition, these infrastructures are now dysfunctional, expensive, unjust, and environmentally harmful. </p><p> The austerity for the poor and many ordinary citizens, and the welfare state for the rich and super-rich, has led to Germany becoming increasingly divided—especially the eastern federal states that were hit hard by the inequality policy after reunification. </p><p> The Agenda 2010, introduced and enacted under the red-green government in the early 2000s, was pushed forward by massive pressure from <a href="https://www.boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-003174/p_arbp_096.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">corporate and business lobbying groups</a> (see the tens of millions of euros spent on the so called "reform movement," including the Initiative für Soziale Marktwirtschaft led by the employers' federation of metal and electronics industry Gesamtmetall) has finally turned on the inequality turbo. As a result, the lower and middle classes have become poorer and the rich and hyper-rich fantastically richer. </p><p> This process is uncontroversial today. <a href="https://static.poder360.com.br/2019/10/global-wealth-report-2019-en.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">According to the Global Wealth Report</a>, in 1970 the top 1% of the German population (around 800,000 people) owned 20% of the total private wealth. That, too, is enormous, meaning that Germany was by no means a balanced or even just society at the time. </p><p> By 2020, the <a href="https://www.wsi.de/de/soziale-ungleichheit-fragen-und-antworten-15098-frage-2-ungleichheit-der-vermoegen-37186.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">share had risen to 35%</a>. The super-rich, the top 0.1% (around 85,000 Germans), can now claim up to 20% of the national wealth for themselves (as much as the top 1% in 1970). The top 10% own around 67%, which corresponds to two-thirds of total private wealth. Like many large properties, corporate assets are almost exclusively in the hands of the top 1%. The lower, poorer half of the population in Germany, on the other hand, owns practically no wealth, apart from a few small credit-financed and self-occupied apartments, houses, or cars. </p><p> This extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of very few continues to grow without countermeasures being taken. For example, the <a href="https://www.ubs.com/content/dam/assets/wm/static/noindex/wm-germany/2024/doodownload/Global-Wealth-Report-2024.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">number of millionaires</a> in Germany rose from 2.1 million to 2.8 million between 2019 and 2024, an increase of 30% in just a few years. A <a href="https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1422807/umfrage/milliardaere-in-deutschland/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">similar curve</a> can be seen among billionaires. In 2001, there were 69 billionaires in Germany; by 2022, this number had already risen to 212, and last year there were 249 (including extended families) who own a billion or more. </p><p><a href="https://www.ubs.com/content/dam/assets/wm/static/noindex/wm-germany/2024/doodownload/Global-Wealth-Report-2024.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">According to the Global Wealth Report</a> and other studies, "wealth inequality in Germany is higher than in other large Western European countries. For example, the Gini coefficient [it measures inequality: 100% means that all wealth is in one hand, at zero everyone would own the same] for wealth in Germany is 82%, compared to 67% in Italy and 70% in France." </p><p> In other rich industrialized countries, a comparable process of concentration and inequality can be observed, despite slight differences. The division of society is increasing everywhere in Western democracies, deliberately set in motion and nourished by the politics of the extreme center. </p><p> The regime of inequality has been further expanded in the United States and Great Britain than in Germany. There, neoliberal programs were initiated under former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s and 1980s, and were implemented particularly rigorously in the U.S. by the business class and the political establishment. </p><p> Above all, these were drastic tax cuts for the rich and super-rich, i.e. for capital, and the deregulation of the financial industry, while the real wages (purchasing power adjusted for inflation) of the lower and middle classes fell and the welfare state, on which large sections of the population depended, was forced to retreat. </p><p> The U.S. extreme center, both Republicans and Democrats, wanted it that way. The media celebrated the policy as a dynamic growth strategy, even though growth rates and productivity were significantly lower than in the three "golden decades" before. </p><p> The direct effects of these neoliberal measures are mind-boggling. <a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A 2020 study by the U.S.-based Rand Corporation</a> shows that the top 1% of income earners in the U.S. have siphoned off $50 trillion (50,000 billion) from the bottom 90% in recent decades. </p><p> If the more equitable distribution of the approximately 30-year post-war period had continued, with wages rising in line with productivity, the total annual income of the bottom 90% of American workers in 2018 would have been $2.5 trillion higher, or about 12% of gross domestic product. In other words, the upward redistribution of income has enriched the top 1% by about $50 trillion at the expense of American workers. </p><p> Or to put it another way, the average income of a full-time employee in the U.S. in 2020 was $50,000. If wages had kept pace with economic output since the mid-1970s, the average worker's salary would be around $100,000 today. </p><p> But politicians and corporations blocked wage increases in the wake of the growing national income and handed out ever greater proportions of it with "reform measures" (i.e., redistribution measures) to the hyper-rich. U.S. labor unions <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/25-trillion-theft-study-shows-richest-1-americans-have-taken-50-trillion-bottom-90" target="_self">speak of a "trillion-dollar robbery,"</a> criticizing an extremely successful "class war from above." </p><p class="pull-quote"> For decades, the extreme center has offered the right something that it continues to deny the left to this day: mobilization platforms for its political proposals. </p><p> A similar redistribution from bottom to top has taken place in Germany, albeit not as blatantly as across the Atlantic. Even though there is no comparable study for Germany to that of the Rand Corporation, most Germans would earn significantly more today if it had not been for the neoliberal redistribution policy. </p><p> The structural change, or rather the structural break, has had of course far-reaching effects. Studies show that the effects of inequality range from very negative to destructive. Accordingly, inequality generates and promotes economic crises and ecological catastrophes and intensifies conflicts, wars, global injustice, and the plight of refugees. Kate Pickett, professor of epidemiology at the Department of Health Sciences, and Richard Wilkinson, professor at the University of York, have been <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/research/impact/social-inequality/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">systematically studying</a> the effects on living standards in rich countries for many years. </p><p> Their research, summarized in the books <em>The Spirit Level</em> and <em>The Inner Level</em>, shows that income inequality—the gap between rich and poor—has a strong influence on people's health and well-being, as well as on human capabilities and social cohesion. Inequality causes health and social problems. </p><p> This ranges from lower life expectancy and lower levels of education and social mobility to higher levels of violence and mental illness. The scientists argue that inequality hinders the creation of sustainable economies that ensure the well-being of people and the planet. </p><p> Above all, inequality undermines solidarity, provision for future generations, and social cohesion, and encourages more and more people to <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2021.1981981#abstract" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vote for right-wing or even far-right parties</a>—initially as a form of protest, but then increasingly out of conviction. </p><p> In general, inequality and isolation lead to selfish, even authoritarian and irrational attitudes that lack solidarity. When a large part of the population sees a tiny minority amassing enormous wealth and bathing in luxury while many others do not know how to make ends meet in the face of skyrocketing rents and prices and a lack of public services, this is toxic for any society. </p><p> Instead of addressing these problems and their causes, the parties and the major media have chosen a different strategy to counter the growing dissatisfaction in the country. And that has created a second mobilizing factor for far-right answers, alongside inequality. </p><p> In principle, it is the well-known logic of "Divide and Rule" or "Us" against "Them" that allows frustration to be deflected and groups to be set against each other. It is simple but very effective: It is not the hyper-rich, entrepreneurs, and profiteers of the redistribution from bottom to top (the 0.1 or 1% class), including the political extreme center and their accomplices in the media, who are responsible for the conditions and frustration. It is "the others." They take away the prosperity of the Germans and make them dissatisfied. </p><p> This has allowed the privileges of those who own the companies and large portions of German wealth, as well as the politics that serve their interests, to be protected from real reform, while also deflecting people's anger at inequality and grievances from the causes of that frustration. </p><p> To illustrate this, <em>Guardian</em> columnist Fatma Aydemir <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/in-these-dark-times-of-racially-charged-election-campaigns-the-german-left-offers-a-flicker-of-hope" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cites a joke</a>: A banker, a welfare recipient, and an asylum-seeker are sitting at a table. In front of them are 12 biscuits. The banker takes 11 biscuits and says to the welfare recipient: "Watch out, the refugee wants your biscuit." </p><p> In this way, minorities were declared scapegoats, marginalized, and stigmatized as a danger to the lower and middle classes. In the 1990s, after the Yugoslavian wars and the NATO bombings, opinion makers and prominent politicians blamed refugees from the Balkans for social and economic problems and ultimately shredded the right of asylum enshrined in the German constitution. </p><p> The same spectacle has been taking place since 2015. In major waves of campaigning, people fleeing from war, persecution, and misery have been presented by the media and politicians as the central threat to the social order. </p><p> They are portrayed as illegitimate "social parasites" and ungrateful "misogynists" (see the <a href="https://www.jungewelt.de/loginFailed.php?%20ref=/artikel/352050.%20flucht-und-migration-wir-sollten-lieber-%C3%BCber-die-abschottungspolitik-sprechen.%20html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">artificially scandalized "Sodom and Gomorrah"</a> of Cologne during New Year's Eve 2015-2016, of which nothing remained in the investigation committee of the NRW state parliament) or terrorists and knife murderers (see the <a href="https://www.eulenspiegel.com/verlage/das-neue-berlin/titel/die-erfindung-der-bedrohten-republik.%20html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exaggerated coverage</a> of isolated acts by mostly traumatized asylum-seekers and refugees) who want to snatch the last biscuit from the Germans. </p><p> The AfD was finally able to reap the political rewards, the grapes of wrath. In 2015, the party was in a tailspin after a desperate attempt to capitalize on anti-E.U. sentiment. Internal squabbles weakened it more and more, so that in September 2015 it <a href="https://www.infratest-dimap.de/umfragen-analysen/bundesweit/sonntagsfrage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">plummeted to 4%</a> in the polls and was on the verge of disappearing into insignificance. </p><p> But then came the dramatic turnaround. In the fall of the same year, the party's unstoppable rise began when the extreme center decided to <a href="https://www.stiftung-mercator.de/de/publikationen/midem-jahresbericht-2018/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">spread a historic moral panic</a> through all channels in the wake of the so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015-2016. A year later, in September 2016, the AfD was at 16% in the polls. Riding the wave of success, it was able to push ahead with political radicalization and <a href="https://www.zeit.de/news/2018-06/02/gauland-ns-zeit-nur-ein-vogelschiss-in-der-geschichte-180601-99-549766" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">spread "Vogelschiss" (bird droppings) theories</a> about the insignificance of the Holocaust. </p><p> The AfD did not become what it is today on its own. It was the political class and the mainstream press that served and continue to serve up the "illegal intruders" as the <a href="https://www.eulenspiegel.com/verlage/das-neue-berlin/titel/die-erfindung-der-bedrohten-republik.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">perfect scapegoats for the authoritarian right</a>. Only then did the far-right experience a rapid rise, successfully campaigning on the issue of refugees, who were widely vilified, and winning votes. </p><p> It is often claimed that the refugees, their influx, and their numbers have strengthened the right wing. The blame lies with the "migration pressure." But that is not true. As stated in the <a href="https://forum-midem.de/midem-jahresbericht-2018/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2018 annual report</a> of the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy (Midem) <em>Migration and Populism</em>, it was not the influx of refugees that was the central factor, but the media and political discourse about the crisis. </p><p class="pull-quote"> As long as the reduction of inequality and social grievances are not placed at the top of the political agenda and addressed properly, while the extreme center keeps pursuing right-wing cultural wars as a distraction, rational answers to frustrations will have to swim against a powerful current. </p><p> Support for the AfD fell, as already mentioned, to four% in the opinion polls between 2015 and late summer of the same year (from 9% the previous year), while—calculated from 2014—750,000 refugees <a href="https://www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/fileadmin/dateiablage/gutachten/jg201617/arbeitspapiere/arbeitspapier_06_2016.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">came to Germany during this time</a>. Support for the AfD was indeed negatively correlated with the sharp increase in the number of refugees in Germany. During this period, more refugees actually led to a decline in support for the AfD. </p><p> From October 2015, when the discourse of crisis was launched by politicians and the media, the AfD's poll numbers rose sharply, reaching a preliminary high of <a href="https://www.infratest-dimap.de/umfragen-analysen/bundesweit/sonntagsfrage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">18% in September 2018</a>. During this "AfD growth phase," the number of refugees coming to Germany and the E.U. dropped significantly, so that by the end of 2018, when the AfD reached its peak, almost no refugees were able to enter Germany thanks to the brutal sealing of the country's borders under the leadership of the Merkel government. </p><p> Hence, also during the "crisis phase," support for the AfD correlates negatively with the influx of refugees, according to the rule: fewer refugees, more support for the AfD. The actual influx of refugees is obviously not the reason for the success or failure of the AfD. What the AfD has actually benefited from since 2015 has been the political discourse of permanent crisis and alarmist reporting on asylum-seekers and "illegal migration." </p><p> Even today, the rise of the AfD is still associated with a conjured up second "refugee crisis." Although asylum-seekers from the southern Mediterranean region make up only a small proportion of those admitted (190,000 compared to over a million Ukrainians in 2020), they are once again the focus of media debate, which, as with the last "refugee crisis," focuses on deportation and strengthening "Fortress Europe"—a "refugee crisis" that in fact was a crisis of the European repulsion regime that was met with even more sealing off. </p><p> Meanwhile, the Germans at the bottom of society are also being discredited in order to deflect the frustration of the groups above them, especially the middle classes, onto them (and not upward, onto the culprit of the frustration). Thus, journalists and politicians discredited the unemployed and welfare recipients as "social parasites" and "work-shy" in order to push through the Hartz IV reforms to pressure the unemployed and the dismantling of the welfare state against popular resistance. <a href="https://www.bpb.de/system/files/pdf/MNYNG7.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">As surveys show</a>, majorities were against it and wanted a different, more solidarity-based modernization. </p><p> And while today the multimillionaires and billionaires in the country can hardly walk because of all their wealth, property, and investment portfolios, more and more money is being put into their pockets, while for those who (due to a lack of jobs, low wages, or exploding rents and prices) have to stay afloat with state support, every euro is questioned. So the political opinion makers argue about a too-high support for the long-term unemployed, the so called "Bürgergeld" (now 563 euros for a single person per month), with the adjustment in recent years barely offsetting inflation, but they don't talk about the constant pampering of millionaires and billionaires. </p><p> The mainstream media continue to spread the myth that basically everything is fine and a few Band-Aids here and there would suffice: a euro more minimum wage, for example—which would do no more than compensate for inflation and is often undermined by companies anyway. </p><p> But anyone who wants to address the extreme salaries and wealth, the capital gains of investors and companies (often parked in tax havens), is either met with ignorance (see the left-wing demands in the Bundestag) or attacked with economic doomsday scenarios. </p><p> And yet another group has become the target of the political establishment. Politicians and journalists have fueled toxic narratives on climate protection. To appease fossil lobbies and slow down the transition to renewable energy, the establishment (or rather, significant parts of it) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/19/world-leading-eco-vandal-angela-merkel-german-environmental" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sabotages the energy transition</a>, denounces calls for immediate action, discredits demonstrators as <a href="https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/expression-climate-terrorists-criminalises-activists-voted-germanys-non-word-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"eco-terrorists"</a> and presents climate protection as an economic burden and a brake on prosperity, especially for the lower and middle classes. At the same time, wind turbines, solar panels, and electric cars are drawn into culture wars. </p><p> This makes it easy for the AfD and right-wing forces to present climate policy as an elite project and to portray themselves as guardians of ordinary people, protecting them from the burdens and costs of the energy transition. Similar things could be said about the "wokeness" debate—pushed by conservative sectors of the extreme center, while the resulting defensive reactions in the population could be used by the extreme right for campaigns. </p><p> The "political center" has created an extreme social situation, from which only the AfD is profiting in Germany. Its rise is closely linked to the failures of the establishment, which has shifted the overall frustration onto the weak, while the representatives of the political class shed crocodile tears over the popularity and election wins of the AfD. The same is true in other European countries and the United States. </p><p> The question remains as to why left-wing solutions have not been able to fill the gap created by the extreme center in the same way as right-wing extremist ones could—although the surprising election result of the Left Party on Sunday shows that this does not have to remain the case. Certainly, mistakes have been made by left-wing parties. But the real reason lies elsewhere. For decades, the extreme center has offered the right something that it continues to deny the left to this day: mobilization platforms for its political proposals. </p><p> While AfD talking points such as the threat posed by refugees, an energy transition that is harassing citizens, and a mass indoctrination of wokeness have been flooding the media for decades, a debate on progressive measures that address the social causes of frustration is suppressed. </p><p> As the asylum law and the sealing-off regime are tightened ever further and the energy transition is blocked, people continue to wait for the reintroduction of the wealth tax in Germany (suspended in 1997), a real inheritance tax for the hyper-rich, a closure of tax havens and loopholes, the end of destructive subsidies, the regulation of the finance industry, or a revival of the welfare state. If anything, Germans are put off with vague promises before elections. After that, the popular ideas are put on ice or not seriously addressed. </p><p> The progressive political climate, as it existed to at least some extent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has been systematically deprived of oxygen ever since—a very significant process that effectively blocked democracy. However, as long as the reduction of inequality and social grievances are not placed at the top of the political agenda and addressed properly, while the extreme center keeps pursuing right-wing cultural wars as a distraction, rational answers to frustrations will have to swim against a powerful current. 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" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1245 700'%3E%3C/svg%3E" data-runner-src="https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/mohammed-bin-salman-at-lockheed-martin-headquarters.jpg?id=56580293&width=1245&height=700&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C215%2C0%2C215" style="object-fit: cover;" class="rm-lazyloadable-image" width="1245" height="700"/></a></div><div class="widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1"><h2 class="widget__headline h2"><a class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-ban-foreign-bribery" aria-label="Instead of Pausing a Ban on Bribing Foreign Officials, Trump Should Strengthen It" data-type="text"> Instead of Pausing a Ban on Bribing Foreign Officials, Trump Should Strengthen It </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>Not only should the FCPA be vigorously enforced to stop bribery of foreign officials by U.S. companies, but the law must also be strengthened to combat the flip side of the corruption coin—foreign bribes accepted by American officials.</p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMTk4NzY3OS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc4MjA3NzE2MX0.fAt-KBVpiNnxS2c_Mc75T_74zE3MSKEh6FT8c4s_UKA/image.jpg?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/william-hartung" data-type="text">William Hartung</a><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81NjU4MDMyNC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc2NTYwMjM3M30.gZbGM74D1eco55ooYQmRr2cFtVWwba3Bvtfyog43FtM/image.jpg?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/ashley-gate" data-type="text">Ashley Gate</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Feb 25, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671209004" data-headline="Instead of Pausing a Ban on Bribing Foreign Officials, Trump Should Strengthen It"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p>On February 10, U.S. President <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> issued an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/pausing-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-enforcement-to-further-american-economic-and-national-security/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">executive order</a> that directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to pause the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The FCPA was the <a href="https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/11/15/influence-abroad-the-transnational-anti-bribery-regime/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first</a> law in modern history to ban a country’s own citizens and companies from bribing foreign officials. </p><p>Citing the law as one of the “excessive barriers to American commerce abroad,” President Trump has instructed the attorney general to—at her discretion—“cease the initiation of any new FCPA investigations or enforcement actions.” The executive order further requires the DOJ to provide remedial measures for those who have faced "inappropriate" penalties as a result of past FCPA investigations and guilty verdicts. </p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p>This move by the <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/trump-administration/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump administration</a> to pause enforcement of the foreign bribery law now and allow it to be put on the shelf later risks a revival of the pre-1970s period, when bribery was a routine practice among major U.S. arms contractors. </p><p class="pull-quote">If President Trump is serious about his campaign pledge to “stop the war profiteering and to always put America first,” it is the worst possible time to shelve the FCPA, given that bribery by U.S. companies is alive and well.</p><p>In the post-Watergate reform period in Congress, in late 1975 and early 1976, Idaho Sen. Frank Church’s Subcommittee on the Conduct of Multinational Corporations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed <a href="https://www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/man-pulled-trigger-scandal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">widespread foreign bribery</a> on the part of U.S. oil and aerospace firms, with the starring role played by Lockheed Martin, which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/12/archives/lockheed-heads-expecped-to-quit-in-bribe-scandal-early-departure-of.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bribed</a> officials in Japan, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/saudi-arabia/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Saudi Arabia</a>, Nigeria, Indonesia, Mexico, and Colombia in pursuit of contracts for its civilian and military aircraft.</p><p>The revelations caused political turmoil in the recipient countries, led to the resignation of Lockheed’s two top executives, and prompted Congress to pass the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.</p><p>The repercussions were most severe in Japan, where Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was arrested and <a href="https://www.deseret.com/1995/2/22/19160654/japan-court-upholds-conviction-to-end-19-year-lockheed-scandal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">convicted</a> of receiving bribes in the scandal—the first time a sitting Japanese prime minister had been arrested, in what one analyst called “Japan’s biggest scandal of the postwar era.”</p><p>Sen. Church <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kJYbuAyThvA0zoYVurWrAAUgwfN2015QzwZmlIMd030/edit?tab=t.0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">made it clear</a> that in his mind, the problem went far beyond the question of corruption: “It is no longer sufficient to simply sigh and say that is the way business is done. It is time to treat the issue for what it is: a serious foreign policy problem.”</p><p>Among the issues he cited were potential destabilization of democratic allies and closer ties with reckless, dictatorial regimes driven by financial motivations rather than careful consideration of U.S. security interests. </p><p>As noted above, President Trump’s primary reason for freezing enforcement of the anti-bribery law is that he believes it has been used unfairly, to the detriment of U.S. companies and U.S. security. This argument does not hold up to scrutiny.</p><p>First of all, there is no evidence that outlawing bribery has hurt the U.S. arms industry. The United States has been the <a href="https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">world’s largest arms supplier</a> by a large margin for 25 of the past 26 years, and major U.S. arms offers reached near record levels of $145 billion last year. </p><p>The real issue is how to stop dangerous, counterproductive arms transfers, not how to make it easier to cash in on sales that too often undermine U.S. interests.</p><p>A 2022 <a href="https://quincyinst.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Quincy Institute </a><a href="https://quincyinst.org/research/promoting-stability-or-fueling-conflict-the-impact-of-u-s-arms-sales-on-national-and-global-security/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">study</a> found that U.S.-supplied weapons were present in two-thirds of the world’s active conflicts, and that at least 31 clients of the U.S. arms industry were undemocratic regimes. Fueling conflicts and supporting reckless authoritarian regimes are destabilizing to regions of importance to U.S. security. They also risk drawing the United States into a direct, boots-on-the-ground conflict.</p><p>If President Trump is serious about his campaign <a href="https://www.rev.com/transcripts/trump-rally-in-wisconsin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pledge</a> to “stop the war profiteering and to always put America first,” it is the worst possible time to shelve the FCPA, given that bribery by U.S. companies is alive and well. Just last October, RTX (formerly known as Raytheon) was forced to pay over $950 million in fines after it was found to have engaged in multiple schemes to defraud the Department of Defense and violate the FCPA and the Arms Export Control Act by paying bribes to Qatari officials in pursuit of major military contracts with that nation. </p><p>Not only should the FCPA be vigorously enforced to stop bribery of foreign officials by U.S. companies, but the law must also be strengthened to combat the flip side of the corruption coin—foreign bribes accepted by American officials. The recent sentencing of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to 11 years in prison after being found guilty of bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Egypt and Qatar underscores the need for stronger enforcement mechanisms. </p><p>Menendez’s guilty verdict as well as Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-Texas) <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/us-congressman-henry-cuellar-and-his-wife-charged-bribery-unlawful-foreign-influence-and" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">indictment</a> on charges that included unlawful foreign influence and bribery reveal how those who wield influence over American foreign policy can be paid off in exchange for exerting unwarranted influence on behalf of a foreign government. </p><p>The debate over bribery may be obscuring a larger truth: U.S. arms sales policy is in desperate need of an overhaul. The governing legislation—the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/chapter-39" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arms Export Control Act</a>—was passed in 1976, when the world was a very different place than it is today. </p><p>The law gives Congress the authority to block a major arms sale by passing a joint resolution of disapproval in both houses. But given that they would be opposing a sale already approved by the Executive Branch, they would likely need a veto-proof majority. This standard is too hard to meet. For example, when Congress voted against a sale of precision-guided munitions to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/saudi-arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> in the midst of that nation’s brutal intervention in Yemen, the measure was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-vetoes-congressional-effort-block-saudi-arms-sales-n1034286" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vetoed</a> by President Trump</p><p>A major change that could have a significant impact on U.S. arms sales decisions is legislation that would “<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/487347-time-to-flip-the-script-on-congressional-arms-sales-powers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">flip the script</a>” by requiring an affirmative vote of Congress before major sales to key countries are allowed to go forward. This would strengthen Congress’ hand and make it easier to stop reckless sales that might fuel conflict or enable human rights abuses.</p><p>Instead of lifting restrictions on bribery to grease the wheels for additional foreign arms sales by U.S. weapons makers, Congress and the Trump administration should be crafting a policy designed to make sure overseas arms sales are governed by U.S. national interests, not special interests that profit from selling ever more weaponry to any and all customers.</p></template></div><div class="widget__show-more with-primary-color js-keep-reading js-page-view-and-reload-embeds"><span class="show-more js-expand">Keep Reading</span><span class="show-less js-contract">Show Less</span></div></div></div><span class="" data-elid="2671209004" data-post-url="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-ban-foreign-bribery" data-authors="William Hartung, Ashley Gate" data-headline="Instead of Pausing a Ban on Bribing Foreign Officials, Trump Should Strengthen 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Mayo" Zambada" aria-label="Mexican newspapers showing the news of the capture of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1245 700'%3E%3C/svg%3E" data-runner-src="https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/mexican-newspapers-showing-the-news-of-the-capture-of-ismael-el-mayo-zambada.jpg?id=56585468&width=1245&height=700&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54" style="object-fit: cover;" class="rm-lazyloadable-image" width="1245" height="700"/></a></div><div class="widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1"><h2 class="widget__headline h2"><a class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mexican-drug-cartels-terrorists" aria-label="The Dangerous Folly of Labeling Mexican Cartels 'Terrorist Organizations'" data-type="text"> The Dangerous Folly of Labeling Mexican Cartels 'Terrorist Organizations' </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>Combining the failed strategies of the war on terror and the war on drugs is not just misguided—it’s doubling down on failure.</p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMTk4MzkwOS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc2MzMyNzc4MH0.LKisMFxnCjzlwD4m-BUZhA1iAg1Aos1yytvCKI8StAc/image.jpg?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/jon-rainwater" data-type="text">Jon Rainwater</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Feb 25, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671215131" data-headline="The Dangerous Folly of Labeling Mexican Cartels 'Terrorist Organizations'"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p>In the capricious tapestry that is U.S. foreign policy, you can find a recurring pattern: Washington champions sovereignty as a holy principle of the international order when it aligns with its interests—think Ukraine under Biden—but casually disregards it when inconvenient. </p><p>The latest thread in this tapestry is last Thursday’s unprecedented <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>State Department decision</u></a> to formally designate eight groups, including major Mexican drug cartels such as the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). Beneath the Trumpian tough-on-crime pose lies a policy that threatens to violate Mexico’s sovereignty and destabilize a vital relationship, and reinforces the imperialist tendency that has caused so much damage here in the U.S. and across the globe. </p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p>Labeling cartels as FTOs isn’t just a symbolic gesture; it opens the door for military intervention under the guise of counterterrorism. The U.S. could justify drone strikes or cross-border raids without Mexico’s consent—a blatant affront to its sovereignty. President Claudia Sheinbaum highlighted: “This classification should not serve as a pretext for the United States to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5304248/mexico-warns-the-us-not-to-invade-our-sovereignty-in-fight-against-cartels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>invade our sovereignty</u></a>.” Any such military intervention would violate Congress’s constitutional war powers, but Trump is unlikely to respect such legal niceties. </p><p class="pull-quote">The desire to rise out of extreme poverty can not be bombed out of existence.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> has made this clear. Musk recently declared on his social media platform that the FTO designation would make cartels “eligible for drone strikes,” a comment that is both <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/107850/us-military-mexico-illegal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>legally dubious and deeply unsettling</u></a>. </p><h4>They’re Entrepreneurial Criminals, Not Terrorist Ideologues</h4><p>Mexican cartels are not terrorists in the way most people understand that word. They’re not trying to overthrow governments or spread extremist beliefs. Yes, they commit horrific acts of violence—killings, kidnappings, extortion—but their primary motive is profit, not ideology. As the narcocorrido (“drug ballad,” a musical genre popular on both sides of the border) <a href="https://www.musixmatch.com/es/letras/Banda-El-Recodo-de-Cruz-Lizarraga-2/Clave-Privada/traduccion/ingles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>"Clave Privada"</u></a> by Banda el Recodo goes: </p><p style="margin-left: 20px;"><em>I was poor for a long time<br/>Many people humiliated me<br/>I began to earn money...<br/>Things are flipped around now<br/>Now they call me boss.</em></p><p>Understanding the driver of these cartels isn’t rocket science: it’s all about the Miguelitos (i.e. the 1000 peso note). Imposing travel bans might inconvenience cartel leaders but it won’t dismantle their billion-dollar empires. The terrorist designation is unlikely to even cut profit margins because many cartels are already designated as transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), so the FTO designation <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/problem-cartels-terrorist-groups/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>does not provide significant new policy tools</u></a> to target their finances. </p><p>Drone attacks are unlikely to stop a notoriously violent business where cartel leaders are already <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/02/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-fast-facts/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>frequently killed in assassinations by competitors or shootouts</u></a> with government forces. The war on terror has shown to the U.S. that “Decapitate the Kingpin” is a loser’s game. In fact, Mexico’s own “kingpin strategy” targeting and elimination of high-ranking cartel members has <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-long-war-drugs-crime-and-cartels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>created power vacuums and </u><u><em>increased</em></u><u> violence</u></a>. Combining the failed strategies of the war on terror and the war on drugs is not just misguided—it’s doubling down on failure.</p><p>The desire to rise out of extreme poverty can not be bombed out of existence. Meanwhile, the other main drivers of this problem are illicit markets fueled by U.S. demand for drugs and corruption within Mexico—issues that require smarter policies to address. Words matter in policymaking. Using “terrorist” as a catch-all term is already destructive and distorting, from the U.S. “war on terror” to the Netanyahu-Biden-Trump war in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/gaza">Gaza</a> to China’s oppression of the Uighur in Xinjiang. This action exacerbates the problem.</p><h4>The Imperialist Echo</h4><p>There’s something disturbingly familiar about this whole idea—a familiar whiff of paternalism. For decades, the U.S. has intervened in Latin America under various pretexts: fighting communism during the Cold War, waging war on drugs in the 1980s and 1990s, and now combating “terrorism.” The results have often been disastrous for the region. Designating cartels as FTOs feels like another chapter in this playbook: framing another country’s problems as existential threats to justify American imperialism. So long liberal internationalism, hello <em>Make the Monroe Doctrine Great Again</em>. </p><p>This approach doesn’t work in today’s interconnected world. Problems associated with drug trafficking—and migration—don’t respect borders; they require multilateral solutions rooted in trust and mutual respect—not unilateral declarations from Washington. Meanwhile, Trump is cutting thoughtful, nonviolent programs like <a href="https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-coons-resolution-reaffirming-usaids-role-in-safeguarding-us-national-security-blocked-on-the-senate-floor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>U.S. funding for </u><u>an organization that has</u></a> reduced the number of children recruited by gangs to help move drugs and migrants across the border. Trump froze <a href="https://betterworldcampaign.org/funding/what-we-know-about-the-pause-on-u-s-foreign-aid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>another program targeting fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking at key ports</u></a>. </p><h4>A Smarter Path Forward</h4><p>None of this is meant to downplay the seriousness of cartel violence or its devastating impact on both sides of the border. Tackling this issue requires nuance and humility—especially from the U.S.. Instead of designating cartels as FTOs, policymakers should focus on strategies that address root causes: reducing demand for drugs through treatment programs; cracking down on gun trafficking from the U.S. into Mexico <a href="https://castro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-castro-goldman-and-thompson-introduce-bill-to-curb-trafficking-of-american-guns-into-mexico" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>as some members of Congress </u></a>are working to do; supporting anti-corruption efforts within Mexico; and strengthening bilateral cooperation rather than undermining it.</p></template></div><div class="widget__show-more with-primary-color js-keep-reading js-page-view-and-reload-embeds"><span class="show-more js-expand">Keep Reading</span><span class="show-less js-contract">Show Less</span></div></div></div><span class="" data-elid="2671215131" data-post-url="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mexican-drug-cartels-terrorists" data-authors="Jon Rainwater" 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Trump, the Mafia Metaphor, and the Corruption of Power" data-type="text"> La MAGA Nostra: Trump, the Mafia Metaphor, and the Corruption of Power </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>Just like the old Sicilian mafia called itself Cosa Nostra—meaning “our thing”—Trump presents himself as “Our Monster,” a kind of anti-hero who embodies the public’s disgust with a distant and dismissive establishment.</p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81NjU3OTc1Ni9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc3OTE1NTg5M30.WBXLiZMl7nLd0puNMJJgHzn_v1HY_MWBxcZGWWqNQKw/image.png?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/vinnie-rotondaro" data-type="text">Vinnie Rotondaro</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Feb 25, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671208432" data-headline="La MAGA Nostra: Trump, the Mafia Metaphor, and the Corruption of Power"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p>On August 24, 2023, a headline blared “La Maga Nostra” over the front page of the <em>New York Post</em>.</p><p>Dominating the layout was a photo of then-ex-President <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>, his chin slightly raised in veiled contempt. The comparison was unmistakable: Trump as Don Corleone, the shadowy figurehead of <em>The Godfather</em>.</p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p>An accompanying news box underscored the irony. Trump had been hit with RICO charges, a legal framework famously pioneered by his own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to bring down New York’s mafia families, including the infamous “Teflon Don,” John Gotti.</p><p class="pull-quote">Trump didn’t introduce the corruption of power to America. He simply streamlined it, stripped it of its former subtleties, and branded it in his own image.</p><p>The former real estate mogul has long invited comparisons to the mafia. His favorite films include <em>The Godfather</em> and <em>Goodfellas</em>, and his personal style—big pompadour hair, boxy suits, and flashy red ties—reflects that influence.</p><p>Michael Cohen once described himself as Trump’s consigliere, akin to Tom Hagen in <em>The Godfather.</em> Former FBI Director James Comey, who spent part of his career investigating organized crime, remarked that Trump’s approach to cultivating loyalty gave him “flashbacks” to his days taking down capos.</p><p>Then who could forget Trump’s infamous dig at Chris Cuomo, calling him “Fredo”—a jab that prompted one of the cringiest displays of Italian American male insecurity in decades.</p><p>From his “Teflon” ability to evade legal consequences to his swaggering machismo and Joe Pesci-like fragile ego, the affinity is laid bare.</p><p>Recent attempts on his life all but cemented Trump’s image as a modern-day mafia man. Whether or not the <em>Post</em>’s editors realized it, they captured the essence of his appeal.</p><p>It’s often remarked that unchecked social and economic pain leads to the emergence of “strong men.” In the classic authoritarian model, outlined by thinkers like Theodor Adorno, the disenfranchised turn to leaders who embody defiance, control, and simplicity in the face of chaos.</p><p>For millions of Americans mired in debt, struggling to pay rent, and unlikely ever to own a home, calling our society “neo-feudal” hardly feels hyperbolic.</p><p>It also tracks with the history of the mafia. The mafia evolved out of feudalism’s wake in southern Italy. As absentee landlords managed vast estates from afar, a vacuum was filled by vicious overseers and middlemen—figures the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia called “parasitic intermediaries.”</p><p>Sciascia is widely credited as Italy’s first “anti-mafia” voice, following his 1961 novel<em> The Day of the Owl</em>. He viewed the mafia’s emergence in Sicily, shortly after the country’s unification in 1861, as a metaphor for the modern corruption of power—representing a distorted “ideal” of justice that promises order and protection for society’s have-nots while thriving on internal exploitation.</p><p>That this distorted image developed within a historical context marred by colonization and exploitation in Sicily—where peasants often romanticized the mafia and longed for a return to monarchy—pained Sciascia.</p><p>Equally, he recognized similar patterns in other contexts.</p><p>Trumpism operates in a similar way—not as a rejection of power consolidation, but as its acceleration.</p><p>Recent developments in Trump’s second term illustrate how a cartel-like consolidation of power among billionaires is carving out fiefdoms and aligning their interests with Trump’s administration in ways that echo mafia-like dynamics.</p><p>Peter Thiel’s role in “disrupting” the establishment sees him pumping money into Trump-friendly candidates and tech ventures that favor the privatization of state functions—a classic power consolidation strategy.</p><p>Jared Kushner’s financial deals with <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/saudi-arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> suggest a patronage model where money secures access and influence. Saudi investments in Silicon Valley, defense, and U.S. real estate could be seen as a geopolitical deal—leveraging Trump’s power for long-term economic control.</p><p>Elon Musk’s role, however, may be the most revealing. If Trump is the Don, Musk is shaping up to be his new consigliere, not unlike the old mafia’s lawyer-fixers—except with a global tech empire at his disposal.</p><p>His control over X (formerly Twitter) allows him to dictate the flow of political discourse, much like a mafia boss controlling the press. If Cosa Nostra kept power through silence—omertà—Musk ensures loyalty through algorithms, shadowbans, and the subtle privileging of certain voices over others.</p><p>Federal deregulation benefiting Musk’s empire (Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink) might reflect the kind of crony capitalism once associated with political machines, but at a planetary scale. Meanwhile, Trump sides with Musk over H-1B visas, even as the MAGA rank and file rebelled, and Musk called them “retarded.”</p><p>The direction we are headed in is shocking. But it would be a terrible mistake to view it as aberrant. Trump didn’t introduce the corruption of power to America. He simply streamlined it, stripped it of its former subtleties, and branded it in his own image.</p><p>His rise exposes a sickening continuity. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton played the game with suit-and-tie professionalism—the neoliberal, financialized version of patronage. Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney did it through defense contracting and old-money oil interests.</p><p>Trump now strips this down to its rawest level: outright transactionalism, loyalty oaths, and a government that operates like a family business.</p><p>He presents himself as the “honest liar,” exploiting well-founded perceptions of corruption while openly admitting to behaviors that elites deny. His blatant displays of donor back-scratching feel almost refreshing in their vulgar transparency.</p><p>Just like the old Sicilian mafia called itself Cosa Nostra—meaning “our thing”—Trump presents himself as “Our Monster,” so to speak; a kind of anti-hero who embodies the public’s disgust with a distant and dismissive establishment.</p><p>Like Al Capone, who opened a soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, he swoops in to get “close” to the people. As a distorted Robin Hood-like figure, he plays up his everyman appeal, toggling between his gilded digs and disaffected base. His diction is street-level, his parlance tabloid. He eats the food (McDonald’s). He speaks the language.</p><p>Sciascia wrote about the insidious spread of corruption, describing how “the palm line”—as a symbol of mafia influence—creeps northward from Sicily to Rome.</p><p>In America, Trump represents its teleological end. He doesn’t need to resort to brute violence.</p><p>His power lies in painting a romanticized picture—MAGA—over a bleak reality—“American Carnage.” In an Italian context, Sciascia dubbed this Sicilianità: the tendency to “decorate” harsh realities and mask corruption with rhetorical flourish. The Democrats tried to do something similar with “Joy.” But it failed.</p><p>The one thing that Sciascia hated more than the mafia was fascism. Yet in a sense, he viewed them as codependent. Ultimately, he viewed the mafia’s power as resulting from a “historic failure, the failure of the Centre-Left,” and the ravages of “eternal bourgeoisie fascism”—the inability of elites to distinguish their dream-hoarding interests from the needs of the masses.</p><p>Which brings us to Musk—a billionaire who sells himself as a free-thinking outsider while constructing a world where he remains the gatekeeper of discourse itself.</p><p>If Trump’s rise was a mafia movie, Musk’s role makes it something else entirely—a Pirandellian farce, in which power’s corruption is so blatant that it becomes surreal.</p><p>We are now through the looking glass. 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