Donald Trump consolidates his legacy with the pacts with the Arab monarchies

The race to consolidate his legacy beyond leaving the White House is one of the legitimate obsessions of any president. In the case of Donald Trump, and on the more positive side, nothing stands out better than his recent and unexpected successes in international politics concerning the Middle East. Where in the course of the last months the White House has managed that four Arab nations, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Morocco, establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. A geostrategic change that may upset the balance in the region and heralds a systemic change regarding relations and strongholds of Israel in the area. But these successes are not transferred instead to China, with which the United States maintains the morass of a relationship of mutual dependence. But Trump can boast of exchanging decades of efforts to convince China to accept the democratic firewalls of the international community. Under his aegis, the United States opted for a much more belligerent and, to some extent, disbelieving attitude. It will be difficult for the Joe Biden administration to return to the contemplative and partly ineffective uses of Trump’s predecessors. The prospects are worse for Iran, which returned to nuclear old ways after the blowing up of the international accord, while North Korea remains the rogue and belligerent state it always was.

Regarding domestic politics and his legacy there is no doubt that the great achievement of this Government, the splendid economic progress of the first three years, was wounded by the brutal outbreak of the coronavirus. And it remains to be seen whether in his last weeks Trump will manage to mediate for the legislature to carry out a new stimulus and economic aid plan, crucial for millions of workers and hundreds of thousands of businesses, threatened by unemployment and bankruptcy caused by the confinements and the strangulation of their activities.

At the institutional level, the same free electron attitude that would have helped him so much in other trades plays against him. Or more precisely, against the best interests of the system and even his own party. “Who is a worse governor?”was asked in an incendiary tweet this weekend, “Brian Kemp from Georgia or Doug Ducey from Arizona.” Both governors gave the green light to the certification of the electoral results in their respective states. The two Trumps are labeled RINOs, initials for Republicans in Name Only, and fighting against him and the Republican party itself. “They allowed me to be robbed of two states where I easily won. Never forget it, vote to remove them from office! ” In another equally sulfuric tweet this Saturday, he wrote that he won the election by a huge margin. But of course, he thinks “only in terms of legal votes, not all the false voters and the fraud that miraculously emerged from everywhere! What a disgrace! In a way, then, his political legacy, between radical polarization and anti-establishment messages, is also a return to his origins as a public figure and mercurial speaker … if he ever abandoned that role.

Trump came to the Oval Office buoyed by the enthusiasm of his Make America Great Again unleashed among millions of compatriots, but also thanks to his continuous generic accusations against what he called the “system” and other populists, in other latitudes, baptized as the “caste.” His never substantiated statements about the “Washington swamp,” which he promised to “drain,” included allegations of electoral fraud in the 2016 elections, never proven, as well as a defamatory campaign, clearly racist in overtones, to cast doubt on where his predecessor, Barack Obama, had been born. Four years ago Trump lost the popular vote by three million votes to Hillary Clinton. Only on four occasions in history, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016 did the loser of the electoral vote achieve victory in the electoral college and, therefore, the presidency. Although Trump garnered a staggering number of votes, a whopping 74,223,755, his numbers pale in comparison to those of his rival, Joe Biden, who won a whopping 81,283,495. A difference of more than 6 million votes. That translated into 306 electoral votes for Democrat to 232 for Republican.

And that today, Monday, if some absolutely unforeseen judicial action does not remedy it, it will already be inevitable. But not even the Supreme Court’s refusal to admit the Texas prosecutor’s unprecedented appeal against Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia, designed to overturn the election results in those four states, has caused Trump to loosen up on his accusations. He has spent the weekend writing against the judges of the Supreme Court He accuses them of having “ZERO interest in what he defines as the” greatest electoral fraud ever perpetrated in the United States of America. Basically it implies that they have prevaricated. He does not forgive them that they have refused to study the content of his lawsuit, considering the magistrates that “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially recognizable interest in the way another state conducts its elections.” But en the fifty defeats that Trump’s election campaign lawyers Resolutions are already accumulated in lower-ranking courts where judges do write and analyze and give their opinion on the content of the lawsuits, overturned again and again due to lack of evidence. Bent on propagating all kinds of conspiracy theories and on the systematic delegitimization of American democracy, its quality controls and its robust balance sheet gear, Trump’s legacy, especially considered in the light of his latest movements, seems more than disturbing. .

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