The role of US President Donald Trump in the political drama of the United States is constantly overestimated, because trumpism is just a myth. Commenting on the US presidential election, the German magazine Der Spiegel, according to which the real winner of the last four years continues to sit in the Capitol, is called Mitch McConnell, the head of the Republican majority in the Senate.
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“Most of Trump’s voters are not really Trump’s voters. They are Republicans and Conservatives, Christians and libertarian opponents of taxes, fools of arms, and, of course, white nationalists. The 69 million voters are not a single bloc, no homogeneous personnel party with red caps instead of uniforms, but a heterogeneous crowd, “says Der Spiegel.
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According to Trump magazine, Republican voters did not perceive them as any founder of the movement or a creator of a new current that would blindly follow its leader into the abyss, as legendary people say about lemurs. “Not many of them know he’s crazy, but he’s crazy,” Der Spiegel said, adding that just as Democrats voted unanimously in the election for Joe Biden, Republicans supported Trump.
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But Trump’s failure is not equal to the Democrats’ success, according to Spiegel. “For liberal Americans, the election is a disappointment. Many Democrats hoped for a landslide victory, the devastating defeat of the Republicans and their president, “the magazine wrote. He noted that in absolute numbers, Trump received even more votes than four years ago.
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Der Spiegel considers McConnell, a man with “a benevolent expression of a friendly turtle on his face, who is undoubtedly the most cunning and most ruthless politician in Washington,” to be the real winner. When it became clear in 2016 that Trump could not be stopped, he relied on the fact that such a president could be controlled and that he would sign everything he presented to him in the White House for signing.
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“It simply came to our notice then. McConnell was perceived by many in the historical context as the conservative elites of the Weimar Republic, as someone who believed that (Nazi leader Adolf) Hitler could be controlled, and who was eventually overwhelmed by the dynamics of the mass movement, “said Der Spiegel. “It simply came to our notice then. “Trump ruled according to the Republican agenda, cut taxes, drastically deregulated and compiled a list of conservative judges presented to him by the Republican Party,” the magazine calculated.
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Unlike Trump, McConnell remains in Washington, DC, where he is likely to lead the Republican majority in the Senate again. For the next four years, he will do what he did so masterfully until 2016 – embitter the life of a democratic president and lead total obstruction with the support of a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. “And in 2024, he will probably support another” populist “who announces another great revolt and promises to finally clean up Washington and drain the swamp. But this Kentucky man will not be afraid of that, because in the end no one knows the swamp better than Mitch McConnell. , “Der Spiegel added, using Trump’s promises to establish order in supreme politics.
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