Donald Trump's disturbing recovery

The election campaign in Iowa, whose outcome will greatly affect global issues during a full year of elections, just in the United States. Its results leave no room for doubt. Destroying rivals in the organised elections in the polar cold of this rural state and many conservatives, Donald Trump confirmed his favourite status in the Republican nominated race for the November 5th elections.

Republican voters were the best witnesses to measure Donald Trump's unthinkable disdain to enforce the rules. The latter did not want to participate even once in debates among candidates organised by his party, avoiding this civic obligation as healthy as necessary.
The former businessman had more than one reason to celebrate his triumph on the evening of January 15th. Its most serious rival, former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was defeated in the race for second place by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose campaign is all in agony. Here Haley will not benefit from the spirit of enthusiasm she will need for the already crucial primary meeting in New Hampshire, scheduled for January 23rd.

These first results are as shameful as they are about American democracy. For the first time, voters were asked to vote for a former president, whose latest act in office was to violate his country's fundamental principle: respect for the election outcome and peaceful transfer of power.

Three years later, republican voters appear to have forgotten the degrading images of outgoing president's supporters, who attacked Capitol in Washington to prevent the certificate of Joe Biden's unequivocal victory. Worse still, many continue to believe the delirious theory of plotting that the elections were stolen from those who actually lost them.

This closed-eyed approach is not a joke, as Donald Trump is presenting as the only electoral program in front of the electors, thirst for revenge and the desire for revenge. Thus it takes widespread cleansing in the administration, which it predicts in the case of a victory in November, placing selected faithful divisions over this criterion rather than meritocracy. There is no doubt that this will weaken the federal state, in favour of opponents of the United States.

Voters in Iowa were also not influenced by the legal processes facing Donald Trump, nor by a series of accusations that paint a completely opposite portrait of a state man. Even at this point Trump managed with the help of extremely mild media against him to inject the poison of doubt.

In the parallel reality drawn by the former president, violating the rules of election campaign financing, the pressure exerted to change the results of the 2020 presidential election, or the illegal seizure of classified archives after his departure from power constitutes no kind of violation. Rather, the fact that he must respond to his actions is presented as a threat to democracy.

The deadline is running out for Republicans who refuse to return chaos and destructive egos in the direction of the White House. They have only a few days left to rally after an alternative candidacy and prevent the primary race from being sold as a plebiscite.

Le Monde editorial, prepare post.al