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Analysis
Mad King Donald screwed up the Republicans in the Senate election
The president only knows one topic: the alleged electoral fraud. This makes him a burden on his own party.
The “Wall Street Journal” says plain text in an editorial comment:
“So far, Trump can rightly claim that he has helped the Republican Party (Republicans, editor’s note) win seats in the House of Representatives and avoid defeat in the Senate. But if the Republican Party loses two seats in Georgia because Mr. Trump divided the party to pursue his own political interests, then the story will change. “
But Trump is not being instructed by the friendly “Wall Street Journal.” At a rally in Georgia on Saturday, he should have endorsed the two Republican candidates, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Trump gave the two just two minutes on the speaker’s stage.
He was allowed to run for only two minutes: Kelly Loeffler. Image: keystone
Most of his hour-long speech was once again an orgy of self-pity. As in his unspeakable Facebook video, the president spreads lies, along with complaints about alleged electoral manipulation and defiant claims that he won the election by a wide margin.
Trump did exactly what Republican leaders feared in their worst nightmares: With his limitless selfishness, he divided the party.
In Georgia, two Republicans and sworn Trump fans are responsible for the proper counting of votes, Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Both ensured that the votes were counted. Failed. Biden still has about 12,000 votes ahead.
Trump doesn’t want to accept that. That is why he is now demanding that Kemp and Raffensperger cancel the election result and convene a special session of parliament. Most Republican MPs must make sure Georgia voters vote for Trump and not Biden.
He still believes in the victory of his idol: Trump fan. Image: keystone
Even Governor Kemp does not want to participate in this blatant break with democracy and the rule of law. Of course: a man who is otherwise good at any dirty trick.
Instead of supporting them, Trump puts the two Republican candidates in a bind. If you question Trump’s lies, you risk losing your fans. The two former Trump attorneys, Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, are already stirring up the country and vowing to Trump’s base not to vote if Loeffler and Perdue do not support the presidential demands.
On the contrary, Loeffler and Perdue must hope to lose the moderate Republican vote if they agree with Trump’s insanity. Since most are extremely tight, this could be the deciding factor. On November 3, around 80,000 Republicans voted for Republican senators but against Trump.
If the Republican Party were defeated in Georgia on January 5, the responsibility rests with the president. Again the “Wall Street Journal”: “If Republicans lose these seats, then Trump will be the main culprit.”
Few Republicans still dare to recognize Biden as president-elect. But in Washington he feels lonely for Trump. Rudy Giuliani is out of action due to Corona-19. Meanwhile, William Barr is said to be flirting with submitting his resignation early. Until now, the attorney general has been considered one of the most loyal and corrupt aides in the Trump camp. But, like the governor of Georgia, he cannot arbitrarily turn reality in favor of his president.
Playing with an early exit: Attorney General William Barr. Image: keystone
Barr said in a sensational interview with the AP news agency last Tuesday that there were no signs of systematic voter fraud. This made him a hateful figure among conservatives overnight. Barr is now not only condemned in Trump’s far-right media such as Breitbart, OANN or Newsmax. Fox News hosts such as Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Justice Jeanine also beat him mercilessly.
The White House is gradually transforming into a setting for dramas of Shakespearean proportions. Those who can flee and those who have yet to stay avoid meeting with the president if possible. According to the “New York Times”, Trump should hardly work anymore, but spend his days feeling sorry for himself or yelling at whoever he just met.
Jeffrey Wilson, Professor of Literature and Shakespeare Expert at Harvard University, explains:
“That’s the kind of behavior that’s classic in the fifth act. The faithful leave and the tyrant bunkers in his castle, becomes more and more nervous, feels insecure, begins to boast of his omnipotence and call his opponents traitors ”.
Either Julius Caesar (also you, Brutus), Richard III. or, of course, the mad monarch King Lear: the parallels to the dramas of William Shakespeare cannot be overlooked. But beware. Wilson warns: “We are nearing the end of the drama and that’s when disasters happen.”
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