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Donald Trump leaves a lot of broken glass. There is a method for this, say Anne Will’s guests. See Joe Biden facing a difficult task, one that also demands Germany.
Outgoing US President Donald Trump is holding on to the White House with all his might. You keep talking about voter fraud and you may want to steer clear of Joe Biden’s inauguration. How are the United States and the Republican Party doing after four years of Trump? Has Biden already played his role as a bearer of hope with his cabinet? The guests discussed this Sunday night on the TV show “Anne Will.” An overview.
The guests
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Norbert Röttgen (CDU), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag
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Sigmar Gabriel (SPD), former Vice Chancellor and Chancellor
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Angelika Kausche, member of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia
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Peter Rough, Washington, DC Political Advisor, Member of the Republican Party
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Samira El Ouassil, columnist and author of “Spiegel”
The positions
Immediately before the airing of “Anne Will,” Donald Trump announced on Twitter Sunday night that his attorney Rudy Giuliani had tested positive for the corona virus. In the same breath the outgoing president of the United States spoke once again of the “most corrupt elections (by far!) in the history of the United States.”
Trump has questioned whether he will attend the inauguration of successor Joe Biden. A question of style or damage to the democratic system? Asked the presenter of Norbert Röttgen. “He openly ignores the basic rules of democracy, namely elections,” charged the CDU’s foreign expert, Trump. According to the method, insanity has Röttgen’s point of view: “He does everything possible to form his legend: I was not defeated, we were betrayed.”
None of the guests really wanted to address the question of whether Trump could run again as a presidential candidate in 2024. Recently, at the White House Christmas party, the Republican said: “It’s been four wonderful years. We are trying to do four years. years more, or I’ll see you in four years. “
Political adviser Peter Rough has largely ended the Trump era. Even after the November 3 elections, he had raised hundreds of millions of dollars in electoral donations, which he could use to fund future political activities. But: “Starting on January 20, the focus will be on Joe Biden,” said the Washington Republican. “Donald Trump will no longer have power and then it will be difficult to co-govern from the outside, even if one is noisy.”
Rough did not expect the president to attend the inauguration of his successor, as is the tradition in the United States. In this case, Biden had warned that Trump could damage his country’s reputation at the last minute. The columnist and communication scholar Samira El Ouassil considered this statement by the Democrat reckless. “Biden is doing himself a disservice by making this big and falling right into this trap,” he said. After all, you shouldn’t have expected anything more from Trump. Anti-institutionalism, resistance to existing structures, was after all the main characteristic of the Trump presidency for four years. It is “logical” not to recognize the election results.
The “New York Times” has just testified to Trump that he hardly shows up for work. But on Saturday the president was in Georgia. There, the last two seats, and therefore power in the Senate, will be decided in a second round on January 5. Wuppertal-born Democrat Angelika Kausche does local politics in the state as a member of the House of Representatives. At this level, an understanding between the conflicting fields is more likely. “But it’s getting more and more difficult,” he described the deep division, asking in light of the lies of Trump’s electoral fraud: “Where are the Republicans who say: enough is enough?”
Biden’s main task, according to Röttgen, is now to reconcile the country. “There is poison in the system. Withdrawal of the poison will probably take longer,” said the CDU politician. That also applies to the Republican Party. “What Trump did was the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. He was not received with open arms. Now the question is, how stable is this hostile takeover?”
Former Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel also identified hostility as a major weapon in Trump. He stylized the political opponent as an enemy and thus radicalized his supporters. Now conservatives would have to decide how to deal with Trump’s legacy. “The battle within the Republican Party is now being fought,” Gabriel said, but also noted that conservatives had been radicalized long before Trump, a keyword “Tea Party.”
The controversy of the night
Thanks to the moderate Republican Rough, there was broad agreement in the group. The biggest differences of opinion came in Biden’s cabinet verdict. Even within the party, criticism was voiced that the president-elect relies too heavily on old political figures rather than new forces. A relapse into old mistakes that got Trump promoted? “That’s the establishment’s revenge,” was Rough’s judgment. For Ouassil, the composition of the cabinet also shows how tightly closed the American political system remains: “I think that’s a problem.”
“I consider the establishment to be a pure smear campaign,” Röttgen said. “Biden is a middle class man.” This is reflected in your personnel decisions. Gabriel called it a “strange idea” that inexperienced civil servants should be better. Biden needs an experienced team because he is “a transitional president” who has to lead the country through a difficult phase.
The date of the night
Röttgen and Gabriel warned against leaving the United States alone under Biden in his new and old leadership roles. “This administration will look at the world again,” Röttgen said. Germany must ask itself: “What new substance do we want to bring to this relationship?”
Gabriel called for it to aggressively approach the United States with offers to curb China’s influence on the world stage. It brought into play a rival joint project to the Beijing Silk Road Initiative. “Why don’t we offer Central Asians and Africans infrastructure and financing projects between the United States and Europe?” “There is a great possibility if there is understanding on both sides: we need each other in the 21st century too”
