“Today will be remembered as the day Americans regain control of their country,” he said. donald trump in the early hours of this past Wednesday after decisively defeating Kamala Harris in the United States presidential electionsDemocratic Party candidate. After his victory, which he announced himself before the results were official, Trump also proclaimed the beginning of “a golden era” for the United States and promised to “fix what is wrong in the country.”.
Trump is going to count on almost absolute power to fulfill that objective of “fixing the country.” In addition to executive power, the president-elect of the United States will also enjoy a Republican majority in the Senate After four years of Democratic control: the Republicans already have at least 52 senators of the 100 that make up the Upper House, but there could be more. Everything indicates that this absolute majority is going to be replicated in the House of Representativeswhere the progress of the count puts the Republicans increasingly closer to the 218 seats that mark the absolute majority.
With the legislative power in your pocketTrump is not going to have to worry too much about the judiciary either. The complicity of the Supreme Courtclearly dominated by conservative judges, three of them appointed by Trump himself, is a relief for a president who has already been convicted of sexual abuse and? has other open judicial frontsamong them the pending trial for the assault on the Capitol in January 2021. A trial that may not take place while he is president.
Trump already made history at the time by becoming the first former president to be criminally chargedfor several cases, including the assault on the Capitol. But as president he will now have the power to order the Department of Justice to close the investigations against him. It could even be the case that Trump pardons himself. What is certain is that he will pardon those convicted of the assault on the Capitol which he himself encouraged, in an unprecedented blow to American democracy.
Trump’s mandate will not be a dictatorship (although many people who worked with him in his first term assure that they would not do so again due to his intransigent and authoritarian character), but he will have a lot of power, more than desirable. His second term will foreseeably be marked by his desire for revenge and for his determination to leave a mark, a legacy with which he will be remembered. And that, in someone whom both his opponents and some of his collaborators have described as “fascist”it turns out very disturbing: Trump does not present himself as a champion of democracy; What’s more, he doesn’t believe in her much. He himself said months ago that if he was elected he would behave “a dictator but only on day 1”.
Without ties, with almost omnipotent power and with the path quite clear, Trump will find it easier to implement the measures that has been announced in the long electoral campaign: massive deportation of migrants, climate denialism, measures against the right to abortion and against women, the commitment to extreme economic protectionism, unwavering support for the fossil fuel industry and A tariff policy whose consequences will be felt throughout the world are some of the proposals that the White House will promote.
All of these measures—and some more—are articulated around the Project 2025a document that proposes conservative and hard right politics to transform the federal government of the United States and consolidate executive power with Trump’s arrival to power.
Prepared by the ultra-conservative public policy center The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is a kind of instruction manual for the right to retain power once you have accessed it. Trump has not signed the document as such, but its connection with Project 2025 is more than evident. An example of this is that the document proposes strip government employees of job protections so that they can be replaced by politicians loyal to Trump and that his legacy lasts beyond his term.
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