6/11/2024–|Last updated: 11/6/202407:32 PM (Mecca time)
The American political affairs correspondent for the New York Times wrote an article stating that the American people elected the Republican Donald Trump Despite his tyrannical tendencies that he does not hide, and his history of lying, deception, and obscene and harsh speech.
Reporter Lisa Lerer described Trump’s victory as an oppression of the people, with the permission of the people, given that he told the Americans exactly what he was planning. She said that America now stands on the brink of an authoritarian style of rule that is unprecedented in its 248-year history.
The writer elaborated on what Trump will do during the next four years of his rule, saying that he will use military force against his political opponents, expel thousands of professional public employees, deport millions of immigrants in military-style arrests, crush the independence of the Department of Justice, and use the government to weave health conspiracies. General and abandon allies America Abroad, he will turn the government into an instrument of his own grievances, a means of punishing his critics and lavishly rewarding his supporters. He will be a “dictator” from the first day of his rule.
However, when he asked to be empowered to do all that, voters said yes, she added.
Broader mandate and less restrictions
She explained that Trump, unlike in 2016, when he achieved a surprising electoral victory while losing the popular vote, this time he will go to Washington able to demand a broad mandate. During the past four years out of power, he shaped the Republican Party in his image, creating a movement that seemed to strengthen with every accusation. He will begin his second term free of many restrictions after a campaign in which he seemed to challenge everyone.
Lehrer continued to say that Trump won big, and his party won Senate and maintained control over House of RepresentativesSo he said: “America has given us a strong and unprecedented mandate. I will rule with a simple slogan: The promises I made, I will keep.”
He also said that this mandate did not come only from the American people; “A lot of people told me that God saved my life for a reason, which was to save our country.”
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Sowing doubts
The writer pointed out that in the wake of the “Covid 19” epidemic, which critics said his government had severely mismanaged, the country became more skeptical of the government. Trust in the media, science, medicine, the judicial system, and other basic institutions of American life declined as more voters embraced the doubts sown by him. Trump for years.
After his defeat, Trump spent four years tightening his grip on the Republican Party, to the point that lawmakers and voters believed his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and the number of Americans who identify as Republicans more than Democrats rose for the first time in decades.
With Trump’s influence, the author says, even the value of democracy itself has become questionable. In a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted last week, nearly half of voters said they were skeptical about the success of the American experiment in governance, with 45% saying the country’s democracy does not do a good job representing ordinary people.
Democrats did not respond to Trump’s doubts
According to the writer, Democrats left these concerns unanswered, and instead, Kamla Harris’ intense campaign largely supported the status quo of the Biden administration, offering a rallying cry about protecting democracy without details about how to fix what many said was a broken system.
The writer pointed out Trump’s strength, saying that it is evident in his not abandoning his rude speech, which has long been one of his distinguishing features, but rather it has become more obscene, and includes sexual gestures in front of a massive audience in the final week of the campaign. However, he wooed black and Latino voters with false claims that immigrants were stealing their jobs and responsible for a wave of violent crimes.
She concluded by saying: What is clear, in the end, is that Americans want change. Now, they will definitely get it.
