Donald Trump may be the strangest president in the history of the United States when it comes to his attitude toward American sovereignty and citizenship.
Not long ago, he publicly told his foreign-born opponent in Congress to «go back home,» despite being a first-generation immigrant himself and having an immigrant wife.
The day before yesterday, he accused any American Jew who votes for the Democratic Party of «great disloyalty,» declaring that the Democrats oppose his tremendous efforts to support Israel.
In other words, the President of the United States publicly declares that American citizens of a certain ethnic background should not base their votes on the interests of the American state and political nation, but on the interests of their own ethnic state.
And who then can be considered disloyal to his country?!
By the way, earlier, when he met with American Jewish congressmen, he also shocked the public by stating that he had great relations with «your government».
This implied that for American congressmen of Jewish origin, «their government» is not the government of the country of which they are citizens and representatives — the United States — but rather Israel.
This attitude is striking in comparison to the efforts of European states to nationalize their Diasporas.
For example, the German authorities and society value the loyalty of Turks living in the country over the rights of its citizens to Turkey, demanding that they be first German and then Turkish, not the other way around.
The same applies to the treatment of immigrant communities in other European states.
In this case, the president of the country himself demands of the citizens of that state who belong to one of the ethnic minorities that they be loyal not to the state of their citizenship, but to the state of their ethnic group.
Or perhaps Trump simply does not see himself as the leader of the American nation-state and does not take it seriously?
For example, in a debate sparked by his statement about the «great disloyalty» of American Jews who vote Democratic (and it should be noted that the majority of them do), he went so far as to say that he was not only the «best president for Israel in the history of the world» (!), but also the… «King of Israel».
Of course, on the one hand, these statements give additional cause to reflect once again on the mental health of this person, especially against the backdrop of his proposal to buy Greenland from Denmark and the cancellation of his visit to that country because of the government’s response that it is not for sale.
On the other hand, whatever one thinks of this person’s views, it must be understood that he is not alone in them.
After all, his electoral victory was largely assured by millions of radical evangelicals and so-called «Christian Zionists,» for whom American Christians and Israeli Jews are not religious communities of two distinct states with their own interests, but essentially two parts of one kingdom — Greater Israel, promised by God to the «tribes of Israel,» which include not only Jews but also Anglo-Saxons.
However bizarre this may seem at first glance, all of this points to a systemic crisis not only of the American nation-state, but of the very idea of a nation-state based on citizenship worldwide, which increasingly cannot compete with the loyalty of supranational communities and organizations, be it the Judeo-Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Israel or the universal Islamic Ummah…