Supporters of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden celebrate results This weekend’s South Carolina Republican primary, another step toward the former president’s shared goal of securing the Republican nomination, is a political Russian with the future of the nation’s democracy at stake. You will be playing roulette.
Unfettered Democrats have even greater voting power than a divided Republican Party and could have used the primaries to severely damage Trump’s candidacy and potentially remove him from the White House.President Trump received 153,00 votes left Although higher than his only Republican rival, Nikki Haley, 400,000 registered South Carolinians were eligible to vote in the open Republican primary. did not participate In the Democratic Party non-election campaign on February 3rd, Biden faced virtually no opposition.. Just half of those non-votes tipped the election in Haley’s favor and could have seriously affected Trump’s progress toward winning the nomination.
But even as Biden and his allies predict that President Trump’s re-election will do devastating damage to American democracy, South Carolina’s Democratic leaders believe that he defiantly declared. “I’m not going to save her.” From Trump. This hands-off approach missed an early, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save America from Trump before the November election.
Biden seems to welcome Trump’s extremely dangerous strategy of enabling his policies. 3rd Republican nomination – he guarantee on a regular basis Democrats will likely send President Trump in the fall, but that will likely depend on the expected outcome of the presidential election. Multiple criminal charges and civil lawsuits against the former president.
But recent polls do not justify that belief. Even if Mr. Biden’s defeat of Mr. Trump is certain, the people will not be satisfied. 70 percent of Americans Neither person wants to return to the White House.
Democratic leaders in South Carolina and across the country have refused to encourage voters to exercise their legal rights and vote against Trump in Saturday’s primary in order to stay out of the party’s internal politics. It wasn’t.they showed no resistance Intervening in open Republican primaries in several states to vote for the most qualified and most extreme pro-Trump candidates, whom Democrats saw as easy targets in the fall for the 2022 midterm elections. I was planning to. The cynical strategy paid off.Democratic Party stay in control Senate and blocked Republicans’ effective advantage in the House of Representatives.
Moreover, where extreme Republicans gained seats; cause serious mischief Trump’s followers sought to disrupt the policies of Republican leadership and further damage the Republican brand. As a group of MAGA rebels wields disproportionate influence in the ultra-thin Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Democrats rejoiced in the legislative paralysis and scoffed at the political circus.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said as the speaker’s election was held in multiple votes over three weeks. pledged Her members did not seek to intervene in the internal affairs of other parties, implying that South Carolina Democratic leaders would refuse to interfere with Haley.
But Mr. Jeffries’ hands-off attitude simply means he uses iron-fisted control to instruct House Democrats to abstain and elect a speaker so the other side can break through their differences and resume the business of governing. It would have been more reliable if it had been used. Instead, Jeffries maintained his own mathematically impossible candidacy and blocked the election of Kevin McCarthy, even though a moderate Republican Party could have won if Democrats once abstained. In order to do so, he collaborated with ultra-radical groups. 11 votes.
The embarrassing stalemate was broken when the Trump-controlled rebels extracted written concessions from McCarthy that would return to the pre-Nancy Pelosi rules. allow single member Requesting leave of the chairman’s chair. Trump supporters quickly exercised their power, McCarthy removed from chair After working on a bipartisan agreement to keep the government open.
Now those dozen or so rebels are wielding minority power like a club over Speaker Mike Johnson’s head.
Political dysfunction is having serious national security implications as President Trump imposes his will on his supporters in Congress.Reflecting the longstanding achievements of their political leaders pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian The trend is that several House Republicans, although far from a majority, are escalating their doubts about further U.S. aid to Ukraine. direct opposition.
They are currently directing aid packages to Ukraine (as well as Israel and Taiwan) to efforts to address the unrestrained flow of illegal immigration across America’s southern border, a major national security crisis in itself. We are requesting that it be a condition. The demands, finally met after long resistance from Democrats and intense negotiations between Congress and the White House, appear to be the biggest border security breakthrough in decades.But Trump suddenly intervened He openly opposes the deal and selfishly wants to keep the issue as a campaign issue. Congressional Republicans quietly acquiesced.
Efforts by Ukraine to carve out separate aid packages have so far failed. suffer Russian lives and territory have been lost due to Russia’s relentless attacks. Lacking critically needed American arms and ammunition, Ukraine’s resistance has weakened, but its will remains as heroically steadfast as ever.
MAGA House Republicans appear determined to facilitate Russia’s victory in Ukraine and thereby empower President Trump’s reckless promises. “End the war in Ukraine within 24 hours” —by apparently abandoning our allies.
It would be similar to a nominally face-saving withdrawal from Afghanistan. President Trump agreed and Biden implemented In such a failed and catastrophic way. But this time the winner will not be Afghanistan’s Islamic extremist Taliban, but President Vladimir Putin’s Russia, officially declared an enemy of the United States and the democratic West. It would be quite the collapse for Ronald Reagan’s party, as President Putin seeks to reorganize the party. evil empire.
His partners in anti-Western aggression in China, Iran and North Korea are take your own lesson From the sight. The world is becoming more dangerous by the day, and the United States, once relied upon for breakthroughs, is increasingly crippled by the worst and weakest elements in both the Democratic and Republican parties. Mr. Biden’s old concerns and Mr. Trump’s new isolationism endanger national and global security and cripple American leadership.
Joseph Bosco served as the Secretary of Defense’s Director of China Affairs from 2005 to 2006 and Director of the Asia-Pacific Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief from 2009 to 2010. He served in the Pentagon when President Vladimir Putin invaded Georgia, and was also involved in the Pentagon. Discussion of the US response. Follow him on Twitter @BoscoJosephA.
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