Trump Election Would Be ‘Death Blow’ to Global Order: Israeli Historian Yuval Noah Harari

‘America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace ... patriotism,’ President Trump told the UN in 2018.

Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari gives a talk at the Love Tomorrow Conference on sustainable development in Belgium on July 28, 2022. NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images

A victory for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election would deal a “death blow” to globalism, Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari says, criticizing the GOP candidate’s focus on American nationalism.

Ten years ago, there was a “global order, the liberal order” which created the “most peaceful era in human history,” Mr. Harari said in a Jan. 11 interview with “The Diary of a CEO” podcast.

However, “this order was repeatedly attacked, not only from outside, from forces like Russia or North Korea or Iran that never accepted this order, but also from the inside, even from the United States, which was the architect to a large extent of this order, with the election of Donald Trump, which says, ‘I don’t care about any kind of global order, I'd only care about my own nation.’”

If President Trump is again elected, it is likely to be “the death blow to what remains of the global order,” Mr. Harari said. “And he says it and he says it openly.”

Mr. Harari said that anti-globalist politicians present a “false dichotomy” of the world “as if you have to choose between patriotism and globalism, between being loyal to your nation and being loyal to some kind of global government or whatever.”

He insisted that “this is completely false. There is no contradiction between patriotism and global cooperation.”

By contrast, in a 2018 commentary for The Epoch Times, United Kingdom journalist Cid Lazarou characterized globalism as a product of Marxist thinking that seeks to create a world where cultural and biological distinctions do not exist. The ideology “decimates culture and tradition,” he said.

Globalism remains firmly in the “fascist economic camp,” he wrote. “Globalism cripples economies on a national and local scale, replacing them with corporate monopolies that make countries interdependent and weak.”

“Socially, globalism attacks any sense of identity on a national scale. On the individual level, it breaks down biology until all that remains is a nihilistic sense of self.

“Devoid of national or individual identity, people are lured into an endless cycle of social justice group-think that foments Balkanization.”

President Trump has been openly anti-globalist. During a speech at the Republican National Convention in 2016, he announced that “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.”

In his 2018 speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump said, “America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.”

More recently, during a rally in Michigan in June 2023, President Trump vowed to defeat globalism.

“We will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists,” he said, according to NBC.

“And we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country … We will rout the fake news media, and we will defeat crooked Joe Biden. We will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

President Donald Trump chairs a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Sept. 26, 2018. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

With President Trump promising to clean up the American government of globalists, some are reportedly planning to restrict his power if he again becomes president.

“NBC reports the left is plotting ways to have the military not be under civilian control. This dangerous and unconstitutional usurpation of power is being framed by NBC as good because it will undermine Trump if he is freely and fairly elected by Americans,” Fox News contributor Molly Hemingway said in a Jan. 14 post on X.

As commander-in-chief, the president has vast authority to mobilize the country’s military. For instance, the Insurrection Act gives the president the power to decide what would qualify as an uprising and when to deploy the military to respond to it.

Preparing to Stop Trump

Mary McCord, executive director of the Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, told NBC that they are “already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to.”

Responding to NBC’s story, Sean Davis, founder of The Federalist web magazine, said in a Jan. 14 post on X, “Whenever Democrats accuse Trump of doing something, it’s a guarantee that Democrats are planning to do that very thing against Trump.”

“Which means Democrats are preparing to use the military to steal the 2024 election and prevent their opponents from lawfully taking power,” he wrote.

In February last year, President Trump promised to defeat America’s “warmongers and globalists in the Deep State, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the national security industrial complex,” according to a press release.

“Here in America, we need to get rid of the corrupt globalist establishment that has botched every major foreign policy decision for decades,” President Trump said. “The State Department, Pentagon, and National Security Establishment will be a very different place by the end of my administration.

“We’ll also stop the lobbyists and the big defense contractors from going in and pushing our senior military and national security officials toward conflict, only to reward them when they retire with lucrative jobs—getting paid millions and millions of dollars.”