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Joe Biden didn’t win. He was chosen. From a formal point of view, his choice was completely legal, but the feeling of a classic political victory was lost. Rather, a too artificial and too technological result has been revealed that it is difficult to fit into as an element of the natural development of American society.
The establishment, the media, sociologists, NGOs defended and worked so openly for the Democrats and Biden that they sidelined the meaning of the vote by the voters themselves. In addition, they created the feeling that the electoral battle did not take place in conditions of equality and frequent competition between the two candidates.
It is precisely this aspect of the past electoral campaign that has created the conditions for conspiracy theories to emerge that have not yet been developed and that will undoubtedly undermine the legitimacy of the future government. Which was based too much on Trump’s denial, not on Biden’s merits. And the new president will be deprived of that emotional bond with his supporters that Trump enjoys. For this reason, the future battle between the two sides will be fought between a motivated and authentic Republican community and an amalgam of different groups that supported the Democratic candidate, but deprived of internal homogeneity.
There is no doubt that the war between the two camps will continue. The question concerns the scale and manifestations of the process. And at the center of the shock, without a doubt, will be the figure of Trump. If he maintains his authority among the Republican Party and maintains his current support among American society, the victory of the Democrats could be a party.
Because Trump, as a losing candidate, is somehow more dangerous to the system than if he had won a second term.
The constitutional order of the United States has shown that a populist president may be restricted from pursuing his ideas in government. But it is much more difficult for a party leader to be constrained by his own party structures, even if he has the support of an exalted party mass. However, it is much easier to impose authoritarianism in a party than in an entire country. That’s why the battle for control of the Republican Party will truly determine America’s political future.
Of course, the idea of removing Trump from the party sounds very attractive to the GOP bosses. The problem is, there is nothing to replace it with. On the eve of the 2016 election, they had come to terms with Hillary Clinton’s victory and were concentrating on the upcoming presidential election.
Trump literally resurrected them.
Although many Republicans preferred to die politically rather than be served with such a victory.
But the party table was seduced by Trump. Current popularity among Republicans exceeds Reagan’s popularity since the 1980s. And modern social media now allows the leader to communicate directly with his constituents without the need for any party apparatus. We must not overlook the fact that in this election Trump received more votes than he did in 2016.
Still, it has so far failed to put the Republican Party in a position of total obstruction of the announced election results. In the shadow of the news headlines, Biden’s election remained the tacit refusal of Republican leaders to follow the confrontational behavior of their own candidate. Which already speaks of a split in the party. What will become the first barrier for Trump to maintain his current political position for the next four years.
If the Republican elite see Trump as a burden to be thrown away, then for Democrats he is the epitome of evil. That must be destroyed. He has been stigmatized and harassed for the past four years, not so much because he was president, but because he had a political form that called into question the foundations of the American political system as it has existed since at least the second half of the 20th century.
In this sense, it is a matter of life and death that the new government continues its fight against Trump and his followers. Trump may lose the battle for the White House, but he may even help him continue to discredit America’s liberal-democratic political spectrum. And there is no doubt that it will do just that. His refusal to acknowledge Biden’s victory is not just a matter of caprice and wounded pride. This is an act of declared political warfare. That it can be more easily led by opposition positions. Especially when you have an opponent like Biden. That he looks not just like an American Brezhnev, but closer to Chernenko. A submissive hostage to his imposed environment, who dares not deviate an inch from his predetermined behavior.
In this sense, for the United States and the world more important than the election of Biden will be the circle of people who will form its closest environment. Because the emphasis will not only be on what policy will be followed, but also on what context it will be located. The newly elected head of state already carries the stigma that he is the chosen one of the elites and if this is complemented with
the feeling that the White House has become a clique behind the scenes,
the popularity of the new government will quickly evaporate. Along with the initially damaged legitimacy of the elections, this problem will be the second obstacle to the implementation of a comprehensive reform against (Trump). Furthermore, if Biden’s cabinet does not address the difficult current challenges it will face, not only will it not be able to destroy the political legacy it hates, it will even be able to rehabilitate it.
And it’s not about the challenge of the Crown crisis and the associated economic recession, but about the very image that the new administration will build. Biden makes the most of the opportunity to be a mascot of the elites and the media, but such an image will inevitably ruin his popularity with the masses.
Paradoxically, the new president, who comes from a poor working-class family, has a much harder time finding common ground with ordinary people than billionaire Trump. And without clear and open communication between the White House and the public, the announced intention to review Trump’s policies will become a weapon against its creators.
Equally dangerous will be the attempt to radically erase not only the politics of the last four years, but also its carriers. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, 31, elected by Congress, has already held all of Trump’s “scammers” accountable. Most interestingly, there is a group called the Trump Accountability Project that has compiled a list of officials suspected of vigorously supporting the policies of the outgoing government.
A new government, accused by his political opponents of dishonestly running the country, a new president, devoid not only of charisma but also of sometimes inappropriate behavior, will struggle to push for significant and radical change. It may be that the new administration has not only failed to clean up Trump’s legacy, but has become a disproportionate burden on the American people and state.
If we summarize everything so far, we can outline the course of the following political battles within American society:
1) Opposition on a national scale along the axis “for” and “against” Trump and his legacy;
2) The same opposition within the Republican Party itself;
3) Controversies in the Democratic Party in the Liberal-Socialist axis;
4) destabilization due to limited capacity of Biden.
These are areas of tension too numerous and key to suggest that the unrest in the United States may disappear on its own. Rather, there are all the prerequisites for them to escalate. Its first victim will be a general loss of faith in the existing electoral process. Many Republicans are already disappointed in him. If the Biden administration quickly loses its popularity, Democrats will look at the election with apprehension. For fear that they will restore, if not Trump, Trumpism. And then the true political collapse of the United States will occur.
Author: Georgi Georgiev
Source: “Voices”
United States
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