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Why undermining Donald Trump now will actually help him – Firstpost
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Why undermining Donald Trump now will actually help him – Firstpost

The countdown has begun for Donald J. Trump’s second term in the White House: just over 70 days until the inauguration. And time is also running out for the ecosystem of the incumbent Democratic Party to undermine him before he gets there. The American mainstream media has already taken up the mantle, not in the name of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris – as both are a bit radioactive at the moment, to varying degrees – but for everyone who thinks Trump 2.0 is the end of the world.

The dismantling will be carried out at several levels. The media is already worried about Trump’s “trio”: the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives will probably be in Republican hands in 2024. This is interpreted as a clear danger for democracy itself. But the fact is that even Biden started with exactly the same advantage, but there was no “dictatorship” prognosis about him after the previous election.

Indeed, according to the Pew Research Center, 16 of the last 21 U.S. presidents, starting with Theodore Roosevelt, controlled both houses of the Legislature when they took office. And the five exceptions during this period have been Republicans: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and both Bushes. In this context, Trump’s triumphant triumph is truly laudable, but the mainstream media narrative being broadcast speaks to a threatening confluence.

Disgruntled Trump staffers are also being asked to tell scary stories about the man who will be the unhinged President of the United States (POTUS) in January. Print columns, TV interviews, and podcasts are already full of rants, claiming that the issues that drove people to vote for Trump — cost of living, illegal immigration, etc. — are already rife with rants. “nothing stops him” thanks to the trifecta.

Add to that a predominantly conservative US Supreme Court, and the stage is supposedly set for an unprecedented period of blatant autocracy under Trump. Rumors are swirling that if two top conservative justices retire while the trio is intact, Trump will easily elevate more of his picks to the highest court, ensuring that liberal justices will remain in the minority for decades. Implicit in this statement is the threat that no “legal war” will then be able to contain Trump.

We’re already talking about the mistakes Trump made last time, which suggests he hasn’t learned from past missteps and would do exactly the same thing. Therefore, even the announcement of his loyal assistant, Susie Wiles, becoming his new chief of staff (the first woman in that position) is mentioned in the context of the firing of four people from that position last time, including “Four Star General John”. Kelly”. Wiles and the American public therefore receive dark warnings.

The print media in the United States has already published alarmist articles about how various key American institutions, whether it is the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency or the Federal Reserve, are apprehensive about what Trump will do this time- here. Several generals and even the head of the Fed took the bait and expressed their concern. No one seemed to have had the same concerns about widespread change when Biden’s people took over from the first Trump administration.

There have been no worrying stories in the run-up to January 20, 2021 that the new (Democratic) president has brought in his loyalists, because that is the norm. The permanent bureaucracy is relatively small in the United States, and thousands of jobs go to whoever appoints the new occupant of the Oval Office. Presidents would be foolish not to staff their administrations with people they trust and who are committed to their policy agenda. Why wouldn’t Trump take advantage of this prerogative?

This delegitimization and discrediting plan could also see the Democratic ecosystem and mainstream media multiply insinuations that Trump is making a crazy decision on Iran, contrary to his proven track record of not starting war and preferring to conclude peace “deals” such as the Abraham Accords instead. If this bait is not taken, any preparatory steps he takes in the coming weeks to end the Ukrainian conflict “in one day” will be presented as a “capitulation” to Vladimir Putin.

American media have already reported with cheerful foreboding that several foreign heads of government have serious reservations about what a second Trump term would mean. No doubt a few talkative international leaders – particularly major multilateral entities and NGOs – will be asked about their concerns about the potential deterioration of the global order due to Trump’s “Drill baby, drill” promises and mass expulsions” during his electoral campaign.

Finally, we will not stop insisting on his dubious distinctions: 34 criminal convictions for “crime”, four bankruptcies, two indictments, three wives, three presidential campaigns, etc. These 34 are actually checks (each counted as a crime thanks to some judicious interpretation). and he was found guilty without the jurors agreeing on what exactly his criminal act was; the judge was satisfied with this, simply recognizing that he had done something criminal. But this fact is omitted.

Instead, virtually every news story or commentary published since Trump’s reelection has included the phrase “convicted felon,” giving the impression to the uninformed (and there are many such people in the United States and elsewhere ) that he is a career criminal as 34 convictions involve a life in and out of prison. It seems that the American media did not learn the main lesson of Trump’s victory: although they insisted on his “criminality”, he won hands down. And the American media lost.

It would therefore be reasonable to abandon this hackneyed line, but the mainstream American media are clearly incapable of realizing, let alone admitting, that this is a case of excess. Their tendency is to continue to push the claim that more than 72 million Americans deliberately placed a “convicted felon” in the White House and that the world will suffer the horrific consequences, until the Democrats take back control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms.

There is of course another side of the coin. The public might get so fed up with hearing all of the commentators’ dire predictions over the next 70 days or so about what Trump might do (or not do) that when he finally starts signing these first executive orders, they’ll all die down. simply. Peter would have cried wolf far too soon and too often. By trying to preemptively undermine the 47th POTUS, the American media may end up unwittingly helping him. Advice for them: abandon this plan.

The author is a freelance writer. The opinions expressed in the article above are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Firstpost.