Washington.
The decisive factor for Donald Trump‘s victory in the US presidential election was primarily the economy, explains Constanze Stelzenmüller, The Brookings Institution. Although “objective economic data has improved significantly,” this pales in comparison to the still high cost of living. She attests that the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had a “very good election campaign” and that mistakes were made primarily by the Democrats.
A second term in office for Donald Trump “doesn’t mean anything good” for Ukraine. Among the Republicans, there is “a very, very strong faction, especially on the hard right, that says: We have to concentrate exclusively on the Chinese threat.” Rather, this side is demanding that Europeans take more responsibility for themselves and Ukraine. “One can actually only agree with the latter,” says Stelzenmüller at Phoenix. The crucial thing now is to “close ranks in Europe”; the mistakes of Trump’s first term in office should not be repeated.
She takes very seriously the efforts of the “MAGA right” to rebuild the American constitutional order based on the models of Hungary or Franco-Spain. “That would be the end of political pluralism.”
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