Second, in this polarized age, Americans’ views of civil-military relations are not immune to partisanship. They are extraordinarily deferential to the military’s judgment regarding when to use military force, and they are comfortable with high-ranking officers intervening in public debates over policy. First, Americans do not accept the basic premises of democratic civil-military relations.
We report and analyze the results of a June 2019 survey that yields two important, and troubling, findings. While polls have routinely asked about Americans’ trust in the military, they have rarely probed deeply into Americans’ views of civil-military relations. What does this putsch teach us about our future in Europe and in France?Īn influential model of democratic civil-military relations insists that civilian politicians and officials, accountable to the public, have “the right to be wrong” about the use of force: they, not senior military officers, decide when force will be used and set military strategy. The second impeachment procedure against Trump is underway, without resolving the problem of "Trumpism" and its 70 million supporters who are mortgaging the future of the United States. The reconciliation of the Americans called for by Jo Biden seems impossible to achieve in the short and medium term. As indirect suffrage was based on the electorate, the suspense lasted until 06-01-2021, the date of the failed putsch.
The results of the total vote count accentuate this division of the country, with more than 70 million Americans voting for Trump, with Jo Biden receiving 10 million additional votes. This attempted putsch is therefore internal to the American state apparatus and reflects the deep tearing of the real country. The riots in Washington on 06-01-2021 appear to be a turning point in the democratic life of the United States, because they resemble an attempted putsch provoked by the strategy of tension adopted by former Republican President Donald Trump, who refused the victory of the Democratic candidate, proclaimed on November 13, 2020. Of four major potential scenarios, the author concludes that (on present data) the most likely in the short-to medium-term is either a gradual or a crisis-driven rapid harshening of the present authoritarian climate in national governance and corporate conduct. Contexts affecting a prognosis include historical factors as well as those of a more recent and current character, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, laissez-faire policies of Internet and social media platform companies towards radicalright hate mongering and fake propaganda by users, and radical-right reactivity towards weakened US exceptionalism and Trump's re-election defeat.
In proceeding towards a prognosis, authoritarian attitudes and behaviour of some corporate leaders and of collective managements within some corporations need to be examined with caution in order to avoid inadvertently conflating distinct categories.
This chapter draws together all the preceding content to consider potential scenarios for how the new corporate/radical-right symbiosis may unfold, and makes a prognosis for the most likely outcomes.
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