Donald Trump is proving that he won’t let anything or anyone stop him on his way to a second presidency.
Even before Donald Trump uttered the words everyone was waiting for in Florida, he called for donations for his 2024 presidential campaign on his website. He will run for president again “to make America great again,” Trump told fans of his political supporters gathered around him at the politician’s golf club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Representatives of the media, who, according to Trump, spread fakes about him, were not invited to the event.
The leading American expert on Trump, New York Times journalist Maggie Habermann, has repeatedly and impressively described the former president as someone who, under unclear circumstances, is always ahead. This is how the situation looks now. It makes sense for Trump to run now, after American voters rejected his candidates in the US midterm elections.
Republicans yearn for normalcy
Especially in so-called swing states like Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada, which sometimes go back to Democrats and Republicans, even Trump fans don’t want to vote for someone who clings to lies about the stolen 2020 presidential election. Top Republicans are also talking about a “victory for normal” in the congressional elections. But Trump has long been part of the normal life of the Republican Party.
His arguably biggest challenger for the 2024 Republican nomination, recently re-elected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, was appointed by Trump himself. “Trump with brains” is now openly called DeSantis. But there’s nothing Trump hates more than when someone dares to step out of his shadow. Outraged, he called the governor a “hypocrite” since he started acting as his possible rival.
Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice-president, is also preparing to occupy the Oval Office himself. “God help me” is the title of his book, which came out this week and was accompanied by several interviews in which the politician “revealed” Trump’s threat on January 6, 2021, the day the Capitol was stormed. Rivals within his own party, poor performances by his candidates in the midterms, and a series of investigations underway against him, including attempted manipulation of the Georgia state election and alleged stolen secret documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago golf resort. According to the laws of political logic, it seems that everyone is speaking against Trump.
Dissenter Trump
But these laws he himself repeatedly rewrote. His political weapon is division. And if the game goes according to his scenario, the charges against him will be his bullets. Because he will point to them as proof of his “persecution”. According to polls, about a third of Republican voters believe this. Despite all the disappointments in Trump and in the ranks of the Republicans themselves, they support him unanimously. An entire group of Republicans now feel obligated to keep the party safe from Trump in 2024. But this could backfire.
Because of the latter, a third may be enough to win the primaries. And even if not, he won because one thing is clear: Donald Trump has warped the Republican Party in his own image. He no longer recognizes himself. Trumpism has become a permanent fixture in US politics. Regardless of the politician who created it, it feeds the division of American society. Ultimately, the stability of the West and democracy in the world depends on the ability to overcome this divide. Trump’s political demons can only be defeated by a silent majority. The midterm elections only showed that it still exists in different political camps.
Source: korrespondent
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.