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When Donald Trump was elected president of the United States four years ago, it was like an experiment for many Americans. He was an outsider from politics, who promised to clean up the “Augeia dung” in Washington.
A successful businessman, in his own opinion, who came down to hunt votes with the slogan that he does not belong to the politician caste. Four years have passed and finally today all Americans knew his rudeness and rudeness, his aggression, his famous tweets. Everyone now knows the political and personal accusations against him.
American contradictions
In Europe, and especially in Germany, Trump has many aversions. If Germans had the right to vote in American elections, the percentage they would have raised would not have exceeded 10%, according to the YouGov Poll Institute. But unlike the Europeans, whom the American president “charged” with trade disputes, or the Germans, who punished him by announcing the withdrawal of American soldiers from their country, many American citizens benefited from his policy.
A Gallup poll found that 56% of Americans are living better with their families today than two years ago. The fact that Trump was unable to capitalize on this growth in popularity means that many Americans simply did not vote for him, even though their situation has improved. According to calculations by polling site FiveThirtyEight, his popularity ratings gained a negative sign just days after taking office. And they stayed there until today.
In a recent survey, 53% of respondents said no, only 44% had a good reason to say so. In other words, during the pandemic that has so far claimed the lives of more than 230,000 of their fellow citizens, a large percentage of Americans stayed true to it. On a political level, his first term was a success for his followers.
He managed to appoint 3 conservative justices out of a total of 9 to the Supreme Court, so that after decades he could turn the body into a more conservative one, a fact that could have profound consequences for society. Many Americans trust Trump more than Biden to restore the economy to its good post-pandemic performance. The US president proceeded with a deep tax reform and promised a new tax cut.
The cult of Trump supporters
But where his followers gave him many points was the cruel treatment of refugees. Despite resistance from Congress, construction of a wall began on the US-Mexico border. Trump is a supporter of the gun lobby, he supports the strengthening of the military, he is in favor of secularism and the fight against bureaucracy and the many regulations. He appears as a follower of law and order and a fighter against abortion. In foreign policy, his followers speak triumphantly of him about the “America first” doctrine.
The American president is also pursuing followers of the far-right audience. It is difficult to find clear words to condemn them. After the death of a protester at a neo-Nazi rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, he said “there were good people on both sides.” And it is not by chance, of course, that in Europe it is very popular in populist countries. According to statistics from the Pew Institute, the majority of his supporters are white men, with less education, who fear being left out due to social developments.
Trump’s terror scenarios for the “invasion” of refugees in the country, for an explosion of crime, for “hordes of unfortunate leftists” and for the destruction of the suburbs, fall on fertile ground.
In the election campaign, Tram warned of the end of America in its current form, should Biden win. “I am the only one between the American dream and complete anarchy, chaos and insanity,” he said. But above all, he used Venezuela as an example to warn against socialism in the event of a Democratic victory, despite the fact that from a European point of view, Biden is considered rather a moderate social democrat. But there is also the psychological side of the Trump case.
His critics observe in his staunch followers tendencies of personification that are reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. In their pre-election appearances, people not only yell “another four years”, but “we love you.” In a poll conducted by Montmouth University last year, 62% of his supporters said they did not think about what their president might do to lose their support. Trump is aware and recognizes how many loyal fans he has. When you applied in 2016, you made a joke, but it contains a dose of truth. “I could have killed someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue without losing a single voter, it’s incredible.”
Mr. Mary / dpa
Edited by: Irini Anastassopoulou
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