U.S. Midterms: No more impunity

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Change is sweeping across the USA — Trump's MAGA supporters desert him as modern multiculturalism and diversity triumph at the midterms. read now...

Donald Trump boasted he could “do whatever he wanted”, until the “mid-term” elections destroyed his claim to popular support and set up the Democrats as an alternative focus of power. Dr Lee Duffield estimates what may happen next.

TRUMP'S testing of the powers of the United States Presidency went so far as to unilaterally start a major war against Iran, and reverse decades of globalist economic policy by imposing a random tariff regime.

As we have seen, those acts brought about the double-digit swings against his party, the Republicans, at the polls, as they set off fuel shortages and inflation.

The most agnostic of voters – not the rump of MAGA enthusiasts – would bitterly remember his election promises of ending inflation and no wars.

The failure to deliver should have been no surprise, as the man had been indulging in lies and delusional thinking, without check, during his whole time in office.

The other constitutional powers offered no resistance, as he had sympathetic appointees on the Supreme Court and a compliant Republican Congress.

The stunning repudiation of Donald Trump and Trumpism in the U.S. midterm elections is an extraordinary historic “correction”.

What has changed because of the elections is that he has lost two main props for his random and authoritarian style of government. He can no longer claim the support of Congress as the second arm of government, because of the replacement of the Republican dominated Congress by a Democratic Congress with strong majorities.

The second prop now lost was his claim to strong public support, able to marshal large numbers of followers around an ethnic nationalist platform, by pitching against minorities. Its main selling point had been the effective closing of the borders of the United States to migration.

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