Nothing manages to discourage Donald Trump, still determined now and against all the evidence to claim himself as the winner in the 2022 presidential elections in which Joe Biden surpassed him by seven million votes and 74 Electoral College votes.
The congressional investigation commission on the assault on the Capitol of January 6, 2021, which it has disqualified as partisan, has not achieved it, despite the fact that it has offered sufficient evidence about the existence of a plan organized by the then still president. to avoid the relief in the White House, properly an insurrectionary coup d'état.
Nor have the more moderate Republicans succeeded, in an open minority among the conservative electorate, which still credulously buys the hoax of electoral theft and, what is worse,
Few presidents have managed to maintain such overwhelming influence in the Republican Party after a chaotic government and an indisputable electoral defeat.
Trump has not yet announced his presidential candidacy, but the possibility of his running weighs heavily on the candidates and the campaign for the midterm elections.
Trump has been decisive in the appointments of the three Supreme Court judges who have ruled against the right to abortion, the favor of the possession of firearms as a constitutional right and against the regulation of polluting emissions by public regulatory agencies.
And they are not moderate Republicans, but quite the opposite, the candidates to dispute the candidacy in the primaries, the governor of Florida, Ron de Sanctis, and former Vice President Mike Pence.
The Republican Party faces, in this sense, the challenge of breaking the dynamic that Trump has imposed and that fatally erodes democracy.
These are times when the international context of the war in Ukraine forces us to reinforce the values that autocracies like Putin's seek to impose through the worst possible ways.
The most serious problem is the extremism that has seduced the Republicans and that is why it is not surprising that more and more radical candidates appear for the November elections, many belonging to conspiracy groups, anti-vaccines and violent like those that stormed Congress.
Nor the radicalization with apocalyptic overtones of Trump himself, who this week has drawn the landscape of a country with overflowing borders, invaded by immigrants, attacked by drug addicts and vagrants, in which satanist child abusers are released from prison and ultimately civil war is on the brink.
Everything prepared for the appeal to the strong hand and the strong man, to the saving dictatorship.
The worst of horizons.
