Trump was not helped by the bet on conservative Christians, when just before the election, he hastily pushed the conservative Christian Amy Coney Barrett into the Supreme Court and the United States joined an obscure international alliance against abortion. This year, Barnum’s slogans about Great America or loud promises that the vaccine would run until the election did not work, although experts warned that this was not possible. Patience has overflowed, with almost a quarter of a million victims of a pandemic in the United States too many, although in the end the pandemic did not play as much a role as Democrats thought.
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In this situation, voters preferred a calm force that does not question the seriousness of coronavirus to a man who comes up with unsubstantiated miraculous solutions in the form of unapproved ineffective drugs. They rejected a man, an authoritarian, who made hasty decisions and changed priorities from day to day. Trump failed to build a loud wall on the border with Mexico or abolish Obamacare, and his customs war with China did not help ordinary Americans much. Although he managed to withdraw thousands of American soldiers from abroad, it remained in the shadow of current events.
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African-American and Hispanic voters were discouraged from constantly flirting with a variety of white patriots, who often did not hide their racist views. Not even a sudden turnaround, as in the case of North Korea, when the mocking dictator Kim Jong-un became almost a best friend, or hastily issued presidential decrees, which then overturned the courts, did not increase the popularity of authoritarian Trump because they did not actually bring anything and lead voters to do so. to think that he is the right one to lead them in a time of health crisis, which will inevitably be followed by an economic crisis.
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Under Biden, they will face a return to the traditional – albeit unpopular – Washington policy of behind-the-scenes negotiations and the search for compromises without unexpected reversals, a policy they rejected four years ago. However, Obama’s former vice president will not be in an easy situation because many have chosen him as a lesser evil. At the same time, he has no magical solutions in his pocket to handle both crises. It can only offer that proverbial blood, sweat and tears along with higher taxes, but without Churchill’s power and charisma. In addition, he may run out of energy, is even older than Trump, and will join the White House at age 78.
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It will depend a lot on how strong the team is around it, it can help that the Democrats seem to have kept the House of Representatives.
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For Europe, however, Biden’s victory promises to improve transatlantic ties, which is important in a troubled political situation that some may want to abuse. NATO’s Article Five, which guarantees the Alliance’s aid to the invaded country, its attacks on the EU and its attempt to favor some European countries over others, thus undermining a democratic Europe, will no longer be called into question. We can also expect a greater willingness of the USA to negotiate disarmament with Russia, because a world without treaties restricting nuclear and strategic weapons is not safer, although there is also the question of how the Kremlin will react to this.
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