Voting
for Donald Trump did not require civil disobedience, there were no strikes
against other businesses and there was no significant violent protest. Trump’s
electoral victory was however the result of a fundamental resistance to
globalisation. More than that, and to the chagrin of his voters, Trump’s
election demonstrates the beginnings of Marxist theory on capitalism. America,
considered the bastion of global capitalism, had forsaken its proletariat in
favour of allowing market forces to profit. The political elite had succumbed
to the powers of multinational lobbyists and no longer sought to benefit ‘real
Americans’. Such was the view of Trump voters, and whether or not it was true,
their demand for a candidate outside of the political elite was fundamentally a
rejection of globalisation. It was the culmination of a want for a return to
isolationism and a revision of America’s relationship with the global economy.
