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Opinion: even if Joe Biden is confirmed as the 46th president of the United States, Trumpism has won
The final outcome of the US elections is still at stake. The votes are still being counted, which is how it should be in a democracy. Of course, Donald trump he disagrees, as he made clear in an incendiary press conference while the votes were still being counted. Trump’s views can be safely discounted. After all, his conduct over the past four years does not suggest that he is an authority on democratic theory and procedures. Someone needs to have a word in their ear: “It’s democracy, stupid.”
In that same press conference, Trump also said “we have already won.” In this, he may be right, but not in the sense that he meant it. The Republican Party had won before a single vote was cast in this election. Why? Because a few days before this historic election, Amy Coney Barrett was elected to the Supreme Court of the United States. Whatever the outcome of the presidential election, this is a great blow to progressive politics in the United States and a great victory for American conservatives.
The concern here is not that Trump is asking the Supreme Court to ban late mail ballots. It doesn’t work like that: the president has no power to ask the Supreme Court for anything. The real problem is that the Supreme Court can rule against progressive policies and laws, from abortion to health care, for many years to come.
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From RTÉ News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the US Supreme Court.
One of the first decisions the new Supreme Court is likely to make will be to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law known as Obamacare. This was From Barack Obama greatest feat during his presidency, and yet the Supreme Court could end it. If that happened and the Affordable Care Act was repealed, a total of 24 million people would lose health coverage by 2021. This is something that would be tragic at best, but can only be described as a crime in the middle. of a pandemic.
There have been nearly 10 million Covid-19 cases in the US and 234,000 deaths. The United States has been severely affected by the virus and has the highest number of recorded deaths from Covid-19 of any country in the world. For this reason alone, one would have expected Trump to be humiliated in the election. But that has not happened. For American voters, Covid-19 was only a minor concern, and perhaps understandably. Right now, in Europe we are not in much better shape, with a second wave and severe lockdowns everywhere.
That, in part, explains why the pollsters were terribly wrong once again and why there was no landslide victory for Joe biden. Even if the Democrats man wins this election, he will enter by the slightest margin. Hardly the resounding victory that many expected and many others expected.
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From the RTÉ News podcast States of Mind, what happens now that the end result is still too close to call?
Trump may be asked to leave the White House, and if he does (which remains to be seen), he will do so with his head held high. 68 million Americans voted for him, and no candidate has lost an election with that many votes. Compared, Hillary clinton lost in 2016 after getting 65.8 million votes. Yes, Trump got more votes than Clinton, this time.
There is a very simple reason why Trump remains a very popular president. In fact, it is a very obvious reason. How Bill clinton He memorably said in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.” If Covid-19 had not happened, this election would have already ended and the world would be waking up with four more years of Trump. A year ago, before the Covid-19 nightmare began, the US economy was strong, unemployment was low, and business confidence was high. That’s what the voters want, and they still trust Trump to be their best hope for a revitalized economy.
There is one truth about the Trump phenomenon that the Democratic Party refuses to learn: The workers voted for Trump. Many American voters worry about climate change and they care about the people who died from Covid-19, but most of all they want a job that gives them dignity and protection for their families.
From RTÉ Radio 1’s Morning Ireland, Megan Messerly, a reporter for the Nevada Independent, looks at the latest developments in the US presidential race in the state of Nevada.
The Democratic Party no longer represents the working class. That is a major problem for a party that is supposed to be to the left of the other major party in American politics. The Democratic Party faces a paradox it cannot resolve: how to represent and win the trust of working-class voters without appearing socialist. It’s easy in Europe, because socialism is a legitimate political ideology, but not in the United States. Would blue collar voters have voted for Bernie Sanders? We will never know, but we do know that Hispanic voters in Florida are allergic to socialism.
Even if Biden is confirmed as the 46th president of the United States, Trumpism has won. If he wants, Trump can run again for president in 2024 – Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms in 1884 and 1892 – but, even if he doesn’t, we will see more Trump infiltrate American politics in the coming years. After Donald, we will have Ivanka, Donald junior, Tiffany, Eric and maybe even Barron. We can assume that Melania will stay out of electoral politics. The Trumps will be the next political dynasty in American politics in the mold of the Kennedys and the Bushes. Some people prematurely spoke of this election as the end of Trump, but it is only the beginning.
The opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not represent or reflect the opinions of RTÉ
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