When Words Get Dangerous – VG

As many observers and commentators have noted over the past four years, Trump has redefined political manners and what to expect from the dignity associated with the presidency. He has said and done so many strange things that when he says or does something even weirder, hardly anyone reacts. No normal politician would survive a similar pattern of action, where half-truths and outright lies merge into a higher entity.

People who are caught daily lying or making things up to present themselves better should generally be held accountable for this. Just not Donald J. Trump. You can afford to repeal the rules of democracy and demand applause. Something that you also get.

That the head of state in a democracy declares victory in elections before all the votes have been counted, and that there is also no clear trend in his direction, is, to put it mildly, surprising. The fact that the head of state in the same speech attacks the election itself, accuses the other party of cheating and calls a result that goes against him as “fraud”, has no parallel in a civilized society.

What Trump has done in the last 24 hours, culminating in Thursday’s Twitter message, is to discredit democracy and the system that has brought him to the top of the world hierarchy. The insistent command of the president’s official Twitter account can, at worst, be seen as a green light by the White House for militant groups to turn to arms to defend Donald Trump’s right to occupy The charge. Now there is a great responsibility on Trump, if a violent conflict breaks out in the wake of his aggressive rhetoric.

Election observers from the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also criticize how reprehensible everything is. In a statement, the mission’s leader, Michael Link, accused Donald Trump of flagrantly abusing his position as president. Link himself belongs to the right wing of German politics and has been deputy foreign minister in Merkel’s conservative Christian government.

“The most disturbing thing was that with all the symbols of power that the presidency and the White House carry, the American head of state asked to stop counting votes because he had allegedly won,” says Link, who also points out that the accusations of electoral fraud are unfounded.

Never before in American political history has a sitting president used such words and accusations against a challenger on election night, and also used the White House rostrum to question the basic legitimacy of the election. . You don’t have to be a political scientist to understand how dangerous this is.