America at the Threshold: Trump’s Bill and the Birth of a New Civilizational Code
07.03.2025
By Valikhan Tuleshov
In a narrow vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a major bill extending the tax cuts introduced under Donald Trump and significantly cutting several social security programs. This move concluded a prolonged intra-party conflict among Republicans, who had been divided between hardliners and more moderate or libertarian factions. Despite resistance, Republican leadership managed to contain the so-called “rebellion,” demonstrating a fragile but effective unity.
The bill encapsulates the core priorities of the conservative right: tax relief for businesses and the wealthy, stricter fiscal discipline, and a reduced role for the federal government in social welfare. Democrats have harshly criticized the legislation, warning that it threatens millions of vulnerable Americans who depend on housing, food, and healthcare assistance. Yet the bill represents a significant political victory for Donald Trump, who, despite his complex and controversial status, continues to shape the Republican agenda.
Interpreting the “Trump Bill” Through Texturalism
From the perspective of Texturalism—my own conceptual framework—I propose evaluating this legislation not through the binary of "good vs. evil," but through its structural and civilizational implications. Texturalism sees political acts as threads within a global tapestry of meaning, sovereignty, and identity. What, then, does this bill signify within that weave?
The Positive Dimensions
Sovereignty as Narrative:
The bill revives the idea of a national textual field—where the state asserts its voice, distinct from globalist discourses. This undermines the post-liberal hegemonic narrative and opens civilizational space for others (e.g., the Turkic world) to shape their own textual realities.Border as Identity:
The emphasis on borders is not merely geographic. Symbolically, it marks boundaries between civilizations, languages, and lifeforms. A wall, in this context, is a semiotic distinction—a cognitive line demarcating meaning.Economic Protectionism as Texture:
"America First" introduces an economic polyphony, challenging the monologic doctrine of free trade. In doing so, it makes space for regional economic textures: Eurasia, the Turkic world, Africa, and others.
The Negative Dimensions
Collapse into Monology:
The Trump style risks becoming a hypersubject that permits no internal difference. Cultural, ethnic, scientific, and media pluralities are at risk of suppression.Memetic Aggression:
Trump’s rhetoric often functions through divisive memes—“enemies,” “fake news,” “deep state.” These obstruct trust and the collaborative weaving of meaning.Lack of Inter-Civilizational Dialogue:
While it deconstructs globalism, the bill offers no alternative vision for pluralistic, civilizational coexistence. Its isolationist tone shuts America within its own symbolic capsule.
Trump, perhaps unintentionally, participates in the process of textural destabilization—tearing apart outdated narratives. But he does not yet offer a coherent fabric of new meaning. His texture is asymmetric, fragmentary, and often violent.
The Question for America
Does this bill represent an effort to enhance economic efficiency and reduce national debt, or a deeper attempt to concentrate power and shift the U.S. toward authoritarianism?
America is a civilizational hyperfabric—a pluralistic weave of states, cultures, ethnicities, and narratives. If this legislation simplifies the economy at the cost of institutional pluralism, it could trigger semantic collapse. However, an optimistic scenario remains possible.
The Path Toward Healthy Texturalization
A constructive outcome depends on whether reform unfolds within the bounds of federalism and the system of checks and balances:
Return of Strategic Industry
Creation of New Semantic Economies: AI, green tech, localism, education
Employment as Meaning, Not Just Income
If the bill merely masks an erosion of difference under the slogan of "national unity," it may inaugurate a phase of anti-textualization, where elections lose sanctity and symbolic power consolidates in one figure.
But if Trump’s actions stay within the bounds of economic pragmatism, he could help retexture America. This would require recognizing the plurality of civilizations and fostering dialogue over dominance. America must see itself not as the apex of world order, but as a node in the global civilizational weave.
Toward a New Economic and Global Fabric
The bill signifies a reconfiguration of the U.S. economic structure: industrial renewal, protectionism, and economic sovereignty. It also introduces a memetic filter to sovereignty: borders as filters of meaning, not just territory.
Trump’s foreign policy reveals the early contours of what I term Tectonopoly—a civilizational stage beyond unipolarity:
EU independence via pressure on NATO and trade
Middle East pacification via the Abraham Accords
Disruption of the Iran nuclear deal as a step toward rewriting civilizational contracts
Confrontation with China through trade, not arms—a civilizational code war, not a Cold War
Tectonopoly is not a world of blocs, but of pressures, with multiple centers of gravity. Conflicts persist but are structured, not chaotic. This is the threshold to the Genosphere—a world of meaning, differences, and cognitive weaves.
The Genosphere and America’s Civilizational Role
In the Genosphere, meaning—not just capital—becomes productive. America’s future lies not in enforcing hegemony, but in becoming a platform for pluralistic interweaving:
Domestically: Afro-, Latin-, Native-American voices
Globally: Turkic, Islamic, Chinese, Indian civilizations
Trump’s bill may be the first line in rewriting the civilizational code of America. It is not merely law—it is a semiotic gesture: America seeks to write itself anew, not from above or below, but from within.
Trump: Last Hero of Postmodernism, First of Tectonopoly?
Trump mastered simulacra and the destruction of grand narratives—traits of postmodernism. Yet, he also instinctively anticipates Tectonopoly:
Recalibrating Euro-American relations
Offering new vocabularies of peace in the Middle East
Revealing U.S. dependence on globalist structures
He breaks old models not from nihilism, but from tectonic intuition. In this emerging order, borders become memetic thresholds, not just physical ones.
But Tectonopoly is transitional. What comes next is the Genosphere, where civilizations, not just states, form structures of meaning. Here, balance comes from cognitive synchronization, not domination.
Toward an Ethics of Texturalism
The bill also initiates the collapse of post-Cold War ethics—the ethics of postmodernism:
Relativism of values
Humanitarianism without sovereignty
Mediatized morality
Political correctness as a moral discipline
Trump’s rupture is not merely anti-liberal; it is the foundation of a new ethical order:
Truth is polyphonic, not relative
Difference as respected, not erased
Sovereignty as cultural autonomy
Justice as relational, not abstract
Ethical action as woven into meaning
America becomes not a moral gendarme, but a mediator of meanings. In the era of Tectonopoly, this ethic of texturalism is the only viable axiom.
Conclusion: In the Beginning Was the Bill
So, paraphrasing Genesis: “In the beginning was the Bill.”
This legislation, with all its controversy, may become the first line of a new American grammar—a civilizational text that aspires not to dominate, but to synthesize. Trump has opened the door, but it is up to the next generation of leaders to write the next line—not as dogma, but as fabric.
