American “Populism” and the Spatial Contradictions of US Government in the Time of COVID-19

• Autores: John A. Agnew
• Localización: Geopolítica(s): revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder, ISSN-e 2172-7155, ISSN 2172-3958, Vol. 11, Nº. Extra 0, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Geopolítica de la pandemia de COVID-19), págs. 15-23
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/geop.69018
• Títulos paralelos:
  • O “populismo” americano e as contradições espaciais do governo dos Estados Unidos em tempos de COVID-19
  • El “populismo” americano y las contradicciones espaciales del gobierno de Estados Unidos en tiempos de COVID-19
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  • español

    El presidente Donald Trump ha sido el rostro público de la torpe respuesta gerencial del gobierno federal de los Estados Unidos a la pandemia de Coronavirus/COVID-19. Sin embargo, más allá del fracaso personal de Trump se encuentra un fracaso del sistema gubernamental de los EE UU Más específicamente, el papel del gobierno federal en la formulación de políticas a nivel nacional en una variedad de áreas, incluida la salud pública, que uno cree que sería potenciado por un ocupante de la Casa Blanca que se ha autodenominado “nacionalista” o populista de derecha, se ha paralizado por una ideología antifederalista y la inercia institucional que ésta ha creado. Estos hechos tienen raíces que se remontan a la década de 1980 y la distorsión del federalismo histórico de los EE UU.

  • English

    President Donald Trump has been the public face of the blundering managerial response of the US federal government to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, beyond Trump’s personal failure lies a failure of the US governmental system. More specifically, the role of the federal gov-ernment in fashioning nationwide policies across a range of areas, including public health, that one think would be empowered by a self-defined “nationalist” or right-wing populist in the White House, has been crippled by an anti-federalist ideology and the institutional inertia it has created. These have roots going back to the 1980s and the distortion of historic US federalism that these have entailed.

  • português

    O presidente Donald Trump tem sido o rosto público da resposta gerencial do governo federal dos EUA à pandemia doCoronavírus/COVID-19. No entanto, além do fracasso pessoal de Trump, existe um fracasso do sistema governamental dos EUA. Mais especificamente, o papel do governo federal na formulação de políticas nacionais em uma variedade de áreas, incluindo a saúde pública, que deveriam ser supostamente potenciadas por um ocupante da Casa Branca autodenomina-do como “nacionalista” ou populista de direita auto-definido na Casa Branca, foi prejudicado por uma ideologia anti-federalista e pela inércia institucional que criou. Este processo tem raízes que remon-tam à década de 1980 e a distorção do federalismo histórico dos EUA.

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