The painful assault on Congress, the sad end of any democratic leader, has done a disservice to the Republican Party and American democracy.
Its short and long-term consequences are unpredictable, but it is not accurate to compare it with the Tejero hit from 1981 nor with the night Hitlerian of long knives. Behind the American disguised as a horned buffalo there is a propaganda provocation with the painful result of the loss of five human lives.
Go ahead that, most likely, the worst enemy of Donald Trump be the same. There are people, political leaders who generate unconditional support and who, at the same time, have an extraordinary facility to generate enemies, even among their own supporters.
This is the case of Trump. Even the powerful US military industry has appeared anti-Trump, that has not declared any war, unlike its predecessors.
In political crisis processes, such as the one the United States is going through, there are structural and other conjunctural factors. Among the first we must review the character of the president. He doesn’t listen to anyone, he trusts his instinct and ends up believing himself infallible. Forms, despised by Trump, are very important in a democracy.
At the height of the start of the decisive year for re-election, in 2020, Trump had the chancellor’s bond (starting as president), spectacular economic growth and a registered unemployment rate of 3%. He had filed away the claws of North Korea and, unlike Barack Obama, he was not fooled by dictators like Raul Castro O Nicolas Maduro.
Trump has reached unthinkable agreements between several Arab countries and Israel, and has stood in front of China with the result of the signing of a treaty, on January 12, 2020, in which, for the first time, the People’s Republic of China agrees to balance the balance of payments with the United States, and promises to stop the fraudulent appropriation of North American technology and pay for the use of patents.
An important agreement with China that contained a caveat: all this would be fulfilled except for causes of force majeure or a pandemic. In March, the West was invaded by the Wuhan virus and the Treaty with China became dead paper.
Although the polls published by the North American press five months earlier placed Joe Biden at a distance of 6-8 points in his favor, it was well known that reelection depended on five states: Ohio, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona. Trump won in Ohio and Florida. In the other three, he lost by a small margin of late-night votes.
Given that it has not been possible to demonstrate electoral fraud, the question is: What is the reason for that defeat? Again the virus. The pandemic played against Trump. Following the American press and television in the last two months prior to the elections, a double phenomenon could be appreciated.
On the one hand, the issue of violence unleashed by the demonstrations of the movement Black Lives Matter he turned on the kneeling Democrats and the distance between the two candidates began to narrow.
At the same time, the directors of Biden’s election campaign and the majority of the media focused criticism on Trump for his insensitivity and responsibility to the spread of Covid-19 in the United States, it reached the death toll of 200,000.
The Democrats managed to turn what Trump wielded as a success of his administration (maintain the economic pulse and not proceed to the closure of cities or states) into the main critical argument. Trump did not know or could not respond to that communication strategy and the result was, in addition to the abovementioned structural causes, losing the elections.
Finally, the virus, which emerged in the Chinese dictatorship, either due to its possible interested origin, or due to its political use by its opponents in the electoral campaign, could with Trump.
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