Trump already has internal competition

Cincinnati, Ohio. Victory is the only ideology that knows no dogmas.

JD Vance is the best example of human weakness, or if you prefer, of moral degradation. Years ago he compared Trump to Adolf Hitler on Facebook, and stated that the businessman was not qualified to govern the United States.

This year, having become a Republican candidate for the Senate from Ohio, he changed his mind when he realized how difficult it would be for him to win the elections without being linked to Trumpism. He had no choice but to ask her for help. Trump’s public response was brutal: “JD is kissing my ass; he wants my full support.”

Now, Vance smiles and remains silent when the journalists remind him of what he said in the recent past.

The midterm elections in the United States became a kind of second round of the 2020 presidential elections. The assault on the Capitol cracked the credibility of the US electoral system thanks to the force of Donald Trump. There was a thirst for revenge on one side. The unknown was the Democratic position.

The expectations surrounding President Joe Biden were miniscule: a low international profile, inflation that dilutes positive expectations, and implications for a war in which the United States contributes money and weapons.

Donald Trump became, in November 2020, a zombie that infected the Republican Party. Ramon Aymerich recalls in La Vanguardia that one of the iron laws of zombie stories is that if one mixes with them, he ends up becoming a living dead. “There is no escape, sooner or later they catch you and bite you. Something similar has happened to the Republican Party.”

Trump won the 2018 election and, four years later, bit the party with competitive election results. In the end, they all turned Trumpists. “What was initially a political anomaly became the norm,” recalls Aymerich.

Unlike Brexit in 2016, where there was no second round, but there was a scam by members of the Conservative Party and some other politicians like Nigel Farage who lied to the British about the benefits that would supposedly come after the nation left the European Union, in the United States Trumpism, it seems, has reached its ceiling.

Ron DeSantis is the non-histrionic version of Donald Trump: he is against abortion, against sex education in schools, and in favor of a strong hand in immigration policies.

Two years before the presidential elections, a Republican candidate was born who could leave Trump on the canvas.

Trump will radicalize his speech and double his bets because of the lies.

Augmented unreality.

@faustopretelin