America's popular uprising works for Trump's re-election

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Everything that a fool does, he does everything wrong - this popular wisdom is more than applicable to what is happening in the States, more precisely to the establishment's attempt to "transform the imperialist war into a civil one", that is, to ride the racial and social protest after the assassination of George Floyd and wrap him popular uprising against Donald Trump.

The plan was initially so-so, but after all that was used in the fight against Trump in recent years (at first he was a misogynist, then a racist, then a Russian agent, a tyrant and just crazy) - and nothing, including an attempt to impeach, did not help - one could expect anything, up to successful attempted murder. Thank you for being alive - this, of course, is good, but how to expel him from the White House?

And if you set fire to the house, the cockroaches will definitely burn out? Have you tried it? - But really, let's match!

An attempt by playing on the brink of civil war (at least calling out its ghost) to prevent Trump from re-election in November is exactly what we are seeing now in the States.

No, no one planned the tragedy in Minneapolis - but when it caused a huge resonance in the American society, already excited by the coronavirus, protests under the slogan "It's hard for me to breathe" began to turn towards the White House. Trump is to blame for everything: he is a typical white rich racist, down with him! Trump against marauders? No, he's lying - he's against the protests as such! That is, he is a dictator, he also wants to throw the army against the people!

The campaign organizers somehow don’t think that, together with Trump, the American state itself will have to be demolished, because they don’t think that the fate of the United States is at stake. No, what are you, this is just a political struggle, it sometimes takes very harsh forms, but in the case of Trump, who came from nowhere in the presidency, in general, all methods are justified. He's a madman, a nutcase, a boor who will ruin the United States if he remains for one more term, so it is our duty to prevent his re-election. Something like this is justified by those who are now setting fire to America in order to smoke out of Trump's White House.

As the American President's favorite TV presenter Tucker Carlson said:

"The most privileged people in our society use the most desperate to take power from everyone else. They do not strive for racial justice, they need total control!"

Yes, it is very important here to separate two problems - socio-economic and political. Social and racial tensions are growing in the States - but they have nothing to do with Trump's policies. On the contrary, he is just trying to strengthen the American economy, and therefore, to raise the standard of living of ordinary people, entering into a clinch with the elites, who are numb in themselves and are interested both in their endless reproduction in power, and in the continuation of the US development model as a tool globalization. Social stratification and racial divisions are intertwined, and the situation will worsen with each passing year. Quarantine and unemployment have added to the heat - but the protests themselves are not threatening anything. For America, something else is dangerous: an attempt to announce any retaliatory actions by the authorities, including the fight against looters, anti-democratic, anti-popular and illegal. That is, to delegitimize the power as such - because, showing that the protest has the highest authority, the highest legitimacy, that it is he who is the “voice of the people,” it is immediately opposed by the authorities. This is the whole point: manipulators do not care about blacks and the poor, they just want to regain all the levers of power. Including the White House, accidentally, in their opinion, lost in 2016.

That is, the "Washington swamp" did not understand anything and did not learn anything - Trump became president in 2016 precisely because the country was already in a deep crisis, into which it was just the bipartisan elites, the self-contained establishment that led it. And a person who has never been involved in politics, who directly and honestly spoke about this crisis and about the quality of these elites, was chosen by the Americans as their president precisely for this. Many of those who voted against Trump at that time, that is, for Clinton, were frightened by the "Trump" created by the media that were totally at war with him, including scaring him with his "racism." But, to the surprise of the Democrats, over the years of Trump's presidency, the number of his supporters among the black population (and in general of the colored) has grown - as has the income of this segment of American society.

Only another Trump had a chance of defeating Trump - a man who was not connected with the elites and did not share their views. The Democrats had such a candidate: Senator Bernie Sanders, who was stolen from the Democratic Party in 2016. But even now he was not allowed to vote - the moderate socialist Sanders is no better for the elites than the nationalist and isolationist Trump. By putting Joe Biden against Trump, the establishment practically signed for its impotence - the defeat of the former vice president was programmed.

But then there was the coronavirus and the economic collapse, which made Democrats believe in their chances. But the sharply fallen economy began to grow just as sharply before the elections - and then George Floyd was killed.

"Trump is a racist" was one of the first accusations against him, immediately after his 2015 presidential nomination. Now the "racist" has been dragged out of the chest again - hoping that the wave of popular anger will not subside until November and now will certainly sweep away Trump. But the week of protests shows something completely different.

Yes, they polarized American society even more - not because Trump said or did something provocative, but because politicians and media supporting the protests began to attack the president. Who spoke only about the need to curb the marauders (who actually accompanied the protest actions) and put things in order. Polarization was also promoted by the sounding demands for repentance from whites as such, and the rise of the topic of "collective guilt", and even more so the helplessness or self-elimination of the police in a number of cases.

Trump supporters will rally around him even more, but it is very difficult to imagine that the colored ones rally around Biden. Nobody wants chaos and pogroms - and the Democrats opposed the president's attempts to restore order. Biden may attend one of Floyd's five funeral ceremonies - but it's impossible to imagine blacks seriously believing that their lives would be better if the former vice president, the flesh of the establishment, wins in November. At the same time, Democrats need the votes not only of blacks, but of all minorities in general, especially Latin Americans. And their attitude towards Trump all these years has also changed for the better.

With only five months left until the US elections, it is clear that the Democrats will hold them under the slogan "I can't breathe", applying it to the entire Trump presidency. And thus will only help his re-election - because even many hesitant will recoil from someone who is ready to play with fire, rocking the racial and social situation. At the same time, he was neither a socialist nor a fighter for rights. As Biden said in a recent interview, "I will beat Joe Biden."

At the same time, betting on the aggravation of contradictions, the democrats risk losing not only the elections. It will be much worse if, after November, they decide not to reduce the intensity of the struggle - that is, they do not recognize the election results and Trump's new victory.

They will announce fraud and falsifications, demand a recount - the cases will go to court, but it will drag on (unlike in 2000, when Bush defeated Gore), and by January 20, 2021, when the new presidency is to begin, the situation will be suspended. The situation will be suspended - and given that there may be several controversial cases and they may be in different states, in the meantime, each of the parties will be able to preliminarily interpret the outcome of the elections in its favor: "we will eventually have more electors" - "no, we have ! " Then Congress can get involved - and then individual states can begin to speak out. That is, by the beginning of next year, a situation of real dual power may arise in the United States - or non-recognition of the president's powers in part of the country's territory.

And the same can happen in the opposite case - with the defeat of Trump. Although the chances of this are much less - both for his loss and the fact that his supporters in this case will not recognize the results of the elections. Trump's problem is that his supporters in the elite - Republican senators, members of the House of Representatives, governors - are mostly forced allies and temporary companions who will betray him, unable to withstand the psychological attack from the "Washington swamp" (to which many of them themselves belong). In the event of Trump's hypothetical defeat in November, local "uprisings of the masses" are much more real - that is, a riot of indignant voters who will unite on a territorial basis, trying to seize local power.

Now the likelihood of such a development of events after the November elections has grown significantly - and this is the main lesson of what we have observed in the United States over the past week.