Serwan Zangana | Exclusive to iKurd.net
The U.S., under President Donald Trump, has become the arena of political conflicts and social agitation, as his never-ending policies and unpredictable actions that fit a “madman theory” create tensions and unrest in every corner of America and the world.
First, Trump’s domestic policies have drained average Americans. The U.S. national debt reached $40 trillion, and it has increased by $3.8 trillion since Trump took office in January 2025. However, between Trump’s first and second terms, the U.S. debt has increased by $11.6 trillion so far, according to an NBC report.
As the U.S. midterm election approaches, the American right and left wings are racing to the finish line, and each group is interpreting Trump’s policies in a language that benefits the group and, hence, helps it capture the House and Senate seats.
The cultural and economic changes in America have shifted the direction of American society and created a division among people. Therefore, political propaganda has changed with such cultural and economic changes.
The extreme conservative politicians’ focus on undocumented immigrants, usually advocated by liberals and the left, has contributed to such a division and political clashes. Also, Islam has been politicized in American politics, especially among the left, as Muslims have been embraced and strengthened to a degree that many Muslim individuals are gaining support among White Americans on the left for public offices.
Such changes have been distressing to the majority of White American Christians, conservatives, and American Jews. However, America will always remain a land of political, religious, and racial conflict because of the different interests of politicians and the existing gap between diverse groups, races, and ethnicities.
Crisis of both the Democratic and Republican parties: Which one will recapture the votes?
It is a new era of American politics as new groups and politicians are ascending and causing outrage in the nation. Muslims and Arabs embedded in socialism are claiming victories in the Democratic Party and in Democratic states, and they have been the center of debates across the nation.
As they are the majority in some cities, Muslims and Arabs have overwhelmingly voted for Muslim-Arab candidates in the Democrats’ primary elections in August. Some Democrats see it as an energizing moment for the Democratic Party, or perhaps the rebirth of the new Democrats and the end of the establishment, especially after many Muslim and Arab supporters abandoned the party in the 2024 presidential elections due to former President Joe Biden’s unwavering support for Israel in its Gaza war.
The newly elected New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, followed by Michigan’s U.S. Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, who claimed a major victory in the Democratic primary election, have not only been a new wave in America but also resuscitated the Democratic Party among Muslim and Arab voters.
In Michigan, El-Sayed’s victory reconnected the streams and returned the voters to one main line. “I did not think I would come back to the Democratic Party after 2024. I really didn’t. But then when I saw Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, of course…” Zainab Bibi Ahmed from Michigan said.
And further, Ahmad said, “I was like, OK, I cannot not support these gentlemen just because they’re Democrats.” This can be a reason that members of the Democratic Party are silent on many criticisms from the progressives and left wing, including Muslims and Arabs, in the party. Evidently, the Democrats are seeking to return supporters to the party by any means.
Democrats are wisely playing the political game to distance themselves from former President Biden’s era and appeal to Muslim and Arab voters who opted to vote for any party rather than the Democratic Party.
Palestine’s situation has been at the center of the election among Muslim and Arab voters in the U.S. since the 2024 presidential elections until now, as they blamed the Democratic establishment for being influenced by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). But obviously, the progressives, including Muslims and Arabs, are influenced by Palestine’s situation.
What the Republican Party does not understand is that minorities, especially Black Americans, do not perceive it as a party of average Americans. Although President Abraham Lincoln, who was a member of the Whig Party until it collapsed and the Republican Party was formed in 1856, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which stated “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free,” generally, the Republican Party is struggling to embrace and be embraced by minorities.
And even though the Southern Democrats in America in the 1870s enacted and enforced the Jim Crow laws, which deprived Blacks of equal rights exercised by Whites, the modern Democratic Party was able to build a bridge and connect with the majority of American Blacks.
However, both parties are now in a race against time to gain the majority of votes to win the November elections.
The U.S.’s claim of human rights and the hidden strategy behind it
The U.S. is not only in a domestic crisis, but it has also fallen into a predicament globally that, as of now, it has no exit route. For example, President Trump’s war strategy against Iran became a slippery slope, with no sign that it would achieve its goal anytime soon. “146 days into Trump’s war with Iran, he has achieved ZERO of his goals,” U.S. Senator Chris Murphy posted on Facebook.
However, the U.S.’s hideous agenda hides behind human rights, justice, and law and order, and such claims are hoaxes designed by American politicians to build cases to intervene and expand their power in the world. The powerful American elite is impartially applying the law as it defines justice and human rights based on the geopolitical and economic interests of the U.S.
For example, human rights were not considered during the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan under the Biden administration in 2021. According to Amnesty International, human rights, including women’s rights, freedom of religion, and other rights, are violated by the Taliban while the U.S. is silent.
As the leading nation of democracy and defender of human rights, the U.S. has been turning its face away from many regimes that suppress basic human rights in their nations.
President Trump has embraced and praised many dictators in the past, such as North Korean President Kim Jong Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Trump’s credibility has diminished in the world generally, and among U.S. allies particularly, as his double standard in dealing with NATO has roused the ire of some allied members.
Trump’s contrasting principles can be observed in maintaining a close relationship with Erdogan and ignoring human rights violations against the Kurds in Turkey, while criticizing the European allies and Canada.
By embracing Erdogan and Syria’s Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, and removing the latter from the terrorism sponsor list, Trump legitimized the existence of radicals and extremists. According to Amnesty International, the “Trump effect” has worsened the global situation and the damage done to human rights by some of the world leaders.
However, the debatable question will remain among the oppressed ethnic groups in the world: Is the U.S. truly a leader in human rights?
Serwan Zangana, a contributing writer for iKurd.net, lives in Virginia, U.S. He serves as a correction officer.
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