Elderly fight

There was no surprise.

Donald Trump won handily.

It wasn't a huge blowout like in Iowa, where he destroyed Ron DeSantis, the candidate who could really overshadow him.

Nikki Haley believes she has come out of her second loss alive.

It would seem that she is confirmed by the former president's angry reaction, which is not that of a euphoric winner.

It is due to his bad winning, which is like his proverbial bad losing, demonstrated since he left the White House in a bad manner.

He only feels at ease when he crushes the opponent.

Hence her furious reaction to the willful persistence of Haley, whom she wanted to unhorse in New Hampshire.

The traditional republicanism that she represents refuses to die.

She keeps her weak bet because she doesn't want to hand over the wreck without a fight.

That is why Haley has pointed out that the primaries are not a coronation, but an election.

With her resistance, she gives legitimacy to whoever is going to be the candidate, even Trump, and she keeps alive a conservative alternative to Trumpism.

It is also a spare wheel, in case judicial difficulties interrupt the triumphant march of her Republican rival after having been so useful to victimize herself and raise electoral funds.

The old party, including top elected officials and apparatus, is all owned by Trump.

Since the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the proportion of Republican voters convinced that the elections were stolen has not stopped growing and is suffering unfair political persecution in the courts with the sole objective of preventing their return to the White House.

For the immense mass of those who believe these crude populist fabrications, voting for him is defending democracy, exactly the opposite of what Joe Biden, the Democratic Party and liberal opinion around the world proclaim.

Unlike Trump, Biden already considers Haley ruled out.

The president prefers the fierce rival who mobilizes his own people than the educated former governor of South Carolina and former ambassador to the United Nations.

Without a travel accident, always possible with nine months ahead, the White House will have an octogenarian as a tenant within two years.

Biden is already the oldest sitting president in history, but Trump was also the oldest to achieve the presidency.

Whoever wins next November will break the records again.

And if it is Trump, he will be able to beat them again in a third term, which would be the second consecutive, and would allow him to serve 86 years in the White House.

Everything is darkness about the future of democracy in the United States, and in the world, if Trumpism is installed for four more years, extendable for another four.

There is only one thing that is already clear.

The fight that is underway between these two elderly men, each with their lapses, verbal Biden and mental Trump, gives a not at all comforting image of the gerontocratic drift of the superpower, in the style of the Russian and Chinese autocracies.

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