Trump's legacy is the prophecy of another civil war

As happened to Al Capone, the least of crimes can destroy him.

Donald Trump is seriously suspected of seditious conspiracy to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as the winner in the presidential election.

He was exonerated in 2020 of the crimes of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress thanks to the Republican majority in the Senate, which voted against his conviction in the first

process .

Also in 2021, ten votes were missing to reach the two-thirds necessary to convict him in the second

for inciting the insurrection of January 6, 2021. But it was a special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, who carried out the most thorough investigation into Moscow's interference to prevent Hillary Clinton's electoral victory in 2016 and, specifically, the coordination and conspiracy of the Trump campaign team with the Russians, although the Republican White House managed to block any judicial follow-up.

Trump has been outraged by the FBI entering his Mar-a-Lago mansion on Monday night.

No one had warned him.

You don't do those things to a former president.

He is unheard of in US history.

He owns third world dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela, according to outraged Trumpists.

But the historical novelty is that someone like Donald Trump has reached the White House, has taken over the party and the Republican voters and still aspires to repeat the game in 2024, without counting the solid suspicions about his collusion with Putin, his pressures to distort electoral results and his numerous obstructions of the courts and Congress.

The only thing that counts is Republican control of the Supreme Court, achieved thanks to the appointment of three magistrates for life during the four years of the Trump presidency, thanks to tricks and parliamentary blockades.

This is how the United States has an unusual majority of six conservative judges against three progressives in the institution that arbitrates constitutional conflicts, in open contradiction with electoral and social majorities.

Trump can be forgiven for everything from the conservative ranks, including his sympathy and complicity with despots like Putin, since he has so far achieved the annulment of the right to interrupt pregnancy,

There is no precedent for any of this.

As there were none of the 30,000 presidential lies about him.

Nor of his chaotic management, which included the destruction, concealment and theft of presidential documentation, in open contravention of the legality and statute of the president, crimes at the lowest of the scale among the many that he has presumably committed.

There is also no record that so many suspicions, instead of destroying him, could serve as an electoral footstool, as could well happen in the mid-term elections in November and in the presidential elections of 2024.

If in 2016 he wanted the United States to be great again, now he wants to save his country from an apocalypse that has already begun.

Trumpism triumphs in the arts of victimization and exaggeration —of which we know something among us— with its denunciations of the judicialization of politics, the

(deep state) or the police state typical of communist countries.

The appeals for revenge against the FBI, the attorney general and of course the Democratic White House have not been slow.

Trump's legacy is not the most reactionary Supreme Court of the last century, but the prophecy of another civil war and the destruction of democracy.

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