Donald Trump is considering founding a right-wing populist party.
It's an announcement that scares Republicans.
The party is deeply divided anyway - more than ever since the election defeat.
Donald Trump is apparently considering founding a new right-wing party.
The Republicans fear this: There are no three parties in the US electoral system.
The Republican Party has been more divided than ever since Donald Trump was defeated.
Washington, DC - The
last time
Donald Trump
boarded the Air Force One presidential
plane
on Wednesday, he waved to his supporter inside the tarmac and shouted, “We'll be back somehow!” That sentence fueled speculation that Trump By no means goes to old age in Florida.
There have been rumors for months that Trump will either
run again in 2024
, build one of his children for it - or
want to stir up US politics
with a new
right-wing television channel
.
Now a new theory is being added: Trump will found his own right-wing populist party.
Trump had with confidante the formation of
a party called "Patriot Party"
- Party of Patriots - discussed, reported the
Wall Street Journal
on Trump's last day in office, citing persons close to the ex-president.
It is unclear how serious these conversations are.
Trump is notorious for constantly changing his minds and plans.
It takes a lot of time and money to found a party.
But what is certain is that Trump's most passionate supporters will remain loyal to him, at least for the time being.
Searches for
"Patriot Party"
immediately skyrocketed, as did "Third Party" or "New
Party"
, according to US magazine
Forbes
.
The Patriot Party, which does not yet exist, also has a website.
There it says that the goal of this party is the "restoration of the constitutionally conservative leadership, in which we bring politicians to the top who (the Trump-affiliated movement) represent" We The People "- with renewed morals, ethics and the basic principles of the constitution. “The fans love it.
"The Republican Party is dead. If the new Patriot Party comes, I would jump up with all my heart," said a
Trump supporter
named Isabella on
CBS 12 news
.
Trump Party: Not a good omen for the divided Republicans
A new party would be a horror scenario for the Republicans.
Because a
Trump party
would steal important votes from them on the far right.
In addition, it would possibly pull away quite a few radicalized Republicans - not a few of whom are in the
US Congress
, especially in the House of Representatives.
There is actually
no room for a third party in the
US electoral system
.
In the majority voting system of the country, the respective winner is awarded all electors in each constituency;
all other votes expire.
The
Republicans
'
chances of
gaining a right-of-center majority in the presence of another right-wing party would be slim.
The
Democrats
can also tell you a thing or
two about it: In the ultra-tight presidential election of 2000, candidate
Ralph Nader
, who is close to the Greens, lost
so many votes from
Vice-President
Al Gore
that
George W. Bush
won razor-thinly
after several
recounts in Florida
.
But even without a Trump party,
Republicans are
deeply divided.
Quite a few of them
blame Donald Trump for
having to
surrender
all levers of power in
Washington
.
According to this reading, Trump's radicalism has driven many voters in the traditionally conservative suburbs into the arms of the
Democrats
.
The talk of alleged electoral fraud then resulted in the loss of two Senate seats in the US state of Georgia - which cost the Republicans a majority in the chamber.
And then came the Trump-fueled
storm on the Capitol
on January 6th.
Donald Trump: His radicalism split the party into three camps
Now, according to the
New York Times,
there are
three groups in the Republican Party: On the one hand, there are the
“Never Trumpers”
- who rejected Trump from the start and did not vote in 2016.
Opposite them are the
Trump fans
- including many MPs in the House of Representatives.
And then, according to the
New York Times, there is
a new group called
“New RINOs”
.
RINO stands for “Republican in Name Only” - that is,
“Republicans only by name”
- and in the jargon of the Trump faction it describes those who were not loyal enough to the president.
The Republicans who have always been denigrated as RINO include the Trump-critical Senator
Mitt Romney
from Utah.
The “new RINOS”, however, are politicians who were actually Trump supporters - but who distanced themselves from him in the drama about the presidential election and were therefore insulted and threatened by Trump fans.
The
New York Times
cites
Mark Brnovich
, the Attorney General of
Arizona state
, as an example
.
Brnovich fought for the right to church services in the corona pandemic and voted against simplifications for postal votes - in the spirit of Trump.
But after the election, he dismissed the Trump camp's lawsuits against the result and was one of the few who refused to support the lawsuit of his counterpart from the US state of Texas to reverse the Biden election victory.
He immediately became an enemy.
The same thing happened to the Republican
governor of Georgia, Jake Kemp
, who certified the election result in the state despite threats from the right.
It is hard to imagine that all these factions will work together peacefully in the future.
Republicans: Fear of the third party is great
Rick Wilson
, ex-Republican and co-founder of the
Never Trumper organization Lincoln Project,
is convinced that the internal conflicts over the role of Trump will lead to the rise of a third party.
"I believe that the traditional economic, social and fiscal conservatism of the Republicans is basically dead," Wilson told the political news outlet
The Hill.
So it could also be that
moderate ex-Republicans are the
ones who are starting a third party.
The fear of a split is great.
When asked about Donald Trump starting a “Patriot Party”,
Senator Lindsey Graham
said
on
Fox News
, “I hope he doesn't.
I hope he remains the leader of our party. ”If you want to erase Trump from the party, you will end up being erased yourself, said Graham, who is one of Trump's most loyal supporters.
It remains exciting.
(Christiane Kühl)
