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A burning "MAGA" cap
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Donald Trump is done.
This news is so good and evident that it easily outshines the bad and carnival-like news from yesterday evening.
It may be that in the center of US democracy there have been unprecedented scenes of chaos, loss of control and even death.
And further?
Donald Trump is done.
Politically, personally and morally, he has long been dead.
Also officially since the elections in December.
And since the storming of his radical supporters on the Capitol in Washington, his impulsive presidency based on direct communication has also ended.
To the author
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Bernd Hartung
Arno Frank
was born in Kaiserslautern in 1971 and has no experience of fleeing from the war.
He says, "I'm a Handke lover. This is my problem now."
Handke's "The Weight of the World" opened at least one world to him.
He writes novels and is a SPIEGEL author.
The events were a final chord, which in its dissonance does justice to the four-year concert before.
Fanal and grotesque climax of all the anti-political resentments and effects that Trump has always used.
Show.
Not only was he a miserable president.
As a corrupt patrician, he is ultimately also a pathetic tribune for his plebs.
A "lame duck" of the new type, a duck who doesn't give a shit about the symbols of the democracy that he had the undeserved honor to preside over for a term of office.
Not a fighter who leads his hordes into fascism.
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