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The violent end of Trump's tenure ignites the struggle for the future of the Republican Party
The loss of the White House and control of the Senate, as well as the riots, will exacerbate the controversy over the party's image and conduct in the post-outgoing presidential era.
His supporters will call for persevering in "Trumpism," and in front of him are opponents who think lessons should be learned and support a return to the historic Republican tradition.
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Eitan Gilboa
Thursday, 07 January 2021, 18:19
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In the video: The night of the attack on the US Congress (Photo: Reuters and from Twitter)
The violent break-in of the House of Representatives in an attempt to thwart the latest approval for the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is unprecedented.
It is a record of moves, which are also unprecedented, on the part of an incumbent president who refuses to acknowledge his defeat and transfer power in an orderly and responsible manner to whoever defeated him.
Donald Trump has said he will vacate the White House on January 20, only if Congress approves the results of the electorate vote in the various states, as it did, and that is the immediate background to yesterday's violent riots.
Trump has argued for election fraud and large-scale irregularities, and has filed hundreds of unsubstantiated appeals to courts in all instances, including the Supreme Court - and dismissed.
He put pressure on local Republican politicians in the various countries to falsify the results and turn them around - and he refused.
The highlight was on the eve of the second round of Georgia's Senate election, when Trump called the Republican secretary of state responsible for the election process, Brad Rapensberger, demanding that he falsify the election results and determine that he was the winner and not Biden.
When the secretary refused, Trump threatened him.
This intervention contributed to the Democrats' victory this week in the race for the last two seats in the Senate, and also to the loss of Republican control of the Senate.
This defeat also exacerbated the mental state of Trump, who is known to despise "losers."
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For four years, Trump waged a war on democracy.
Yesterday came the coup attempt
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His mental state is getting worse.
Trump at a rally in Washington yesterday (Photo: AP)
In recent days, he has demanded that his deputy, Mike Pence, who in his capacity led the process of approving the congressional election, step down and remove the voters' votes.
Pence rightly refused, explaining that it has no authority to cancel the results.
Yesterday, Trump incited his supporters to demonstrate against Congress, Lantern and the Republican representatives, who he claims are "betraying him" and not following his instructions.
The United States is a violent country.
Its inhabitants possess a huge amount of legal and non-legal weapons.
Occasionally mass massacres take place there.
Minorities, especially blacks, feel discriminated against and oppressed and their lives are not considered as white.
Just last spring, long-running violent riots broke out across the United States, following the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis.
At the same time Trump condemned the riots and called for the rule of law and order.
Yesterday, he encouraged riots and the violation of the constitution and the law.
When there is so much fuel vapor in the air of contempt and hostility to Congress, the judiciary and the media, and hatred and incitement against political rivals, it only takes a small spark to ignite a big fire, and yesterday Trump provided it.
The United States is a violent country. Trump supporters demonstrate in Washington, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
The violent attack on Congress stunned all its members, including most Republicans.
Ultimately this was an attack on them, on their status and the institutions in which they serve and represent the public that elected them.
While some have continued to challenge electoral votes in states like Arizona and Pennsylvania, some have strongly condemned Trump, and some have even suggested ousting him, though they have less than two weeks left until he leaves the White House.
Even his great trustees, like Senators Lindsay Graham and Tom Cotton, and others like Senator Mitt Romney (Republican presidential nominee in 2012) and congressmen like Mike Brown, Cynthia Loomis and Liz Cheney (daughter of Dick Cheney, George's deputy) Bush) objected to his conduct.
A row of White House officials resigned.
Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Puttinger has resigned, and his boss, Robert O'Brien, is also considering resigning.
Former Republican President George W. Bush.
Bush has strongly condemned Trump, and his former National Security Adviser John Bolton has said Trump is dangerous and reckless.
Due to threats of impeachment, Trump has pledged to overthrow the government
Following the riots, Republicans and Democrats demanded that Trump declare that he accepts the election results and will stop challenging them.
Some threatened to act for its immediate removal under Article 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
The section prescribes a procedure for the removal of a president who is ineligible to continue in office due to various circumstances.
The procedure allows the vice president and a majority of cabinet members to inform the speaker of the congress that the president is unfit to continue in office. The
president can appeal such a move, but Congress can dismiss the appeal and approve the impeachment request. It usually takes time, but can be shortened. Democrats are also threatening to initiate a regular impeachment process, which cannot be completed until Biden is sworn in, but could serve as a lesson and warning to any president who violates the constitution and undermines its foundations.
Apparently due to threats of impeachment proceedings, Trump has announced he commits an orderly transfer of power. If there is still enough motivation to go for dismissal.
A huge stain on American democracy.
Congress, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
The loss of the White House and control of the Senate, as well as the violent riots, will exacerbate the controversy over the image and conduct of the Republican Party in the post-Trump era.
His supporters would argue that "Trumpism" and the political, economic and social positions he has adopted should be maintained.
Most of them also accept his claim that the election was fake and therefore for them, his method is still popular and without the "fakes" it would have won.
Opponents, on the other hand, claim that his behavior and doctrine grossly violated the party's values and principles.
They reject the struggle he waged against the results of the presidential election, think lessons should be drawn from the loss of the White House and Senate and yesterday's riots, and favor the return of its candidates and political representatives to the historic Republican tradition.
Trump's shameful conduct, the loss of the White House and the Senate, may yield new Republican candidates ahead of the 2024 election. They include successful governors who advocate liberal conservatism and who actually serve in liberal states, such as Larry Hogan in Maryland and Charlie Baker in Massachusetts.
Nicky Haley, who was Trump's ambassador to the UN and a great friend of Israel's, has left her post, among other things, to distance herself from it. In 2024, she may be the Republican answer to Biden's deputy, Kamla Harris. Other governors who may enter the race are governors. Flounder, as Ron de Santis Florida and Mike Devine Ohio. 2024 seems far away, but in terms of a presidential election is quite close.
the attack on the Congress is very serious and imposes a huge blot on American democracy. However, the fact that it failed and after several hours members of Congress returned to work and continued The electoral debate proves that democracy in the United States is strong enough to fend off any attempt to undermine its foundations, and Biden will have to work with moderate Republicans to fight together the grave effects of extremism, incitement, incitement and appeal to the constitution and institutions of government.
Prof. Eitan Gilboa is an expert on the United States and a senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
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