Simon Tisdall: Trumpism isn’t dead. The battle for free democracies just got ...
deafguy55 December 13, 2020 in ASL 42 Subscribers Subscribe
Link , [After so much uncertainty, one thing is certain: Trump will continue to cry foul, traduce Biden as he traduced Obama and Hillary Clinton before him, exploit division, and fan discontent. With over 69 million voters at his back, he will remain America’s disrupter-in-chief. Conspiracy theories, shameless lies and distortion, vote suppression, vexatious court actions, vilification of opponents, officials and independent media, tacit incitement to violence, abuse of power, illegal collusion with a hostile state, nepotism, corruption and self-glorification – this is Trump’s likely legacy, his gift to democracy in America. In short, Trump’s absolutist leadership has set a terrible example, not only for Americans but for a watching world. He routinely cosied up to “strongman” leaders who despise the popular will, men such as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, whom Trump called his “favourite dictator”. Perversely, he taunted democratically elected allies and friends.]