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The American elections have been decided, the incumbent must leave the White House. But Donald Trump’s comments suggest something wrong. In “Anne Will” the guests discussed: Is Trump clinging to power?
Some people know this from relationships that end: how will we meet in the future? Anne Will asked her group, based on the great US electoral platform, similar, slightly modified. For example, is Donald Trump clinging to power?
Statements by the President of the United States on election night or at the end of the week, his team’s legal weapons in some states, and disappointed Trump fans suggest arges. Will’s group was relatively unanimous: There will be an orderly transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
The guests
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Lora anne viola, John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies at the Free University of Berlin
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Hedwig Richter, University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
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Heiko maas (SPD), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Armin laschet (CDU), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
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Klaus Brinkbäumer, Journalist
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Peter rough, Hudson Institute Washington DC
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Al Sharpton, US Civil Rights Activist
The positions
So: is Trump in brackets? asked Will Laschet. “For the past four years it has never been possible to calculate how Donald Trump would behave, even in international situations,” the prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia said with concern. But he also emphasized that he expected democratic structures in the United States. Maas saw it in a similar light as well, evaluating Trump’s current attitude as a continuation of familiar patterns. He is also confident that “there are still a few in the area who are good losers.”
The political scientist Viola analyzed it more dryly: “He is going to resign.” The more prolonged the processes that have now begun after the US elections are manifested: with the vote of the electorate in the states on December 14, the counting of votes in the US Congress on January 6, 2021 until the inauguration of Biden January 20. The historian Richter brought doubts into play, always briefly. If there is no official election result after December 8, the House of Representatives could ultimately decide.
If one of the group had been able to put out the flames of the other’s hopeful prospects, it would have been tough. But even as a member of the Republican Party he made it clear: “On January 20 (Rough has Austrian roots) there will be a peaceful and orderly transition.” Of course, he could not avoid his party’s almost automatic reflection that the election result would only be recognized if all “legitimate votes” had been counted. The discussion about voting by mail and the alleged obstruction of poll watchers also seemed to be only pro forma to him.
The date of the night
That came from Brinkbäumer. It reflected the thesis that, to put it bluntly, someone should explain to Trump that the history of the elections stolen by the Democrats is just a fairy tale. “There should be a delegation of people like Richard Nixon.” Then they say: “It’s over.” Trump still doesn’t understand that the loss of power in a democracy is part of the system.
The thrill of the night
It seems that the current problems of the time are also changing the culture of speech. How can you argue about things that you can only find horrible in unison? So that night, too, a concern shaped the group: What else holds America together? Trump has deeply divided the country in fear rather than reconciliation, Biden now wants to heal him. Not only for his constituents, but also for those who did not vote for him. “Americans care about their own country,” Brinkbäumer said. But they could barely talk to each other while doing this.
The point now is that Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, have to set priorities – Covid 19, the education crisis, the economic crisis, social justice issues, and racism all weighed heavily. But that won’t work without the cooperation of Republicans, Rough said. Even after the election, his party would weigh heavily in the Senate, Congress, and state parliaments. Biden won with an anti-Trump election campaign. Therefore, this should now make a moderate policy. The result of the elections does not allow a hard left course. His party has become a multi-ethnic workers party that is a “bulwark against the legitimate and undemocratic concentration of power.” He called Hollywood, Silicon Valley, universities, media corporations, the financial world. Brinkbäumer also confirmed this in part: the media also have a great responsibility for radicalization. CNN is in no way inferior to Fox News.
Viola deepened it historically: Trump had sharpened the polarization of society, which had already begun in the 1970s. “The medium is missing,” says Viola. Structural changes can only be made through institutional solutions. Richter saw it similarly: Biden won’t make everything okay again.
That was a shame …
… that a discussion between Richter and Rough about the stability of the American constitution only developed in the last minute of the broadcast. That could have been interesting. However, the topics of the day were waiting.
Fact checking
Biden and Harris’s agenda, provided Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, will be long and full of pressing problems: Biden has already announced some of the first plans. He wants to return to the Paris Climate Agreement with the US and bring the country to climate neutrality by 2050. In addition, there should be a national crown strategy with a mask requirement and an expansion of free trials.
He also wants to support families and small businesses with a Corona relief program that is worth $ 700 billion. Other plans include judicial reform, the dismantling of barriers to naturalization and the continuation of the Obamacare healthcare system.
