TRUMP CIRCUS: Welcome to The Dis-United States of America
By Claudio Resta -March 31, 2023
VT's Claudio Resta explores the increasing possibility of a violent Civil War in America
Let me just give you a few on-the-spot personal reactions of mine about the news of the Grand Jury Indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Clearly, this is the first time in US history that a former president who is campaigning for office has been arrested for a crime. But This will also be the arrest of a presidential candidate who is now certainly the most likely the winner of this coming 2024 election. This doesn’t sound very democratic and in accordance with the US Constitution, does it?
Is the New York Grand Jury a hitman for the Democratic Party?
Perhaps some might think that there is a vague analogy to the Watergate scandal in the years 1972-1974.
First of all, time then flowed much more slowly due to the formal role of an accusation against an institutional figure such as the President in office and also due to the lack of today’s technologies and social media.
In fact, the Watergate scandal took two years to unravel the case.
Beyond appearances, I don’t think so, first because Watergate involved an incumbent President and not just a Candidate.
Then because at that time above all the Domestic and Foreign political framework for the United States was so different and much more favorable than what is now so which give you a completely different meaning to that story.
At that time even a possible impeachment of a President shouldn’t have broken the USA.
Now an arrest of a Candidate like Trump may break the Unity of the Nation, I am afraid.
In any case, let me recall what Watergate was briefly in order to better understand what was its real meaning then and the possible opportunity to apply that experience back then to today’s case or not to do it.
In the Watergate scandal a President who had done a great, very important job that had brought about great results, to his Nation, in its own interests, things like ending the Vietnam war, allying the US with China, and dividing China from the USSR, so laying the foundations of today’s global capitalist system, and laying the foundations of today’s financial development by abolishing the gold convertibility of the US dollar, after all this, Nixon slipped on a banana peel.
After all these great achievements Nixon fell for doing just a little impropriety and telling a little lie.
As well as having a critical view on the Watergate scandal then is also a warning about his great political inopportuneness of pursuing that witch hunt then, in my opinion, beyond the mechanical application of the rules of political correctness. At that time and now for the case of Trump indictment.
In order not to be misunderstood, I repeat that besides our today’s judgment on such great achievements that may be questionable today after fifty years, but certainly not then, when Nixon was anyway, just like FDR, for better or for worse, one of the greatest US Presidents of the twentieth century.
But now, unlike Nixon’s times when the domestic and foreign situation of the US was stable and consolidated, and the military and financial hegemony of the USA was out of the question then, now the situation has changed a lot and everything has become much more unstable and risky in any sense.
Like the wavering strength and safety of today’s international monetary system based on the US dollar, for instance, now a little in danger, maybe…and the economic, financial, and military antagonism with China (ultimately also due to late effects of the success of Nixon’s policy, after all).
And in this social, economic, and even international political environment, I believe it would be very risky to stop now a Candidate Donald Trump who in force of his popular support now is the most likely winner of these elections.
America could break, I think. We could have a new hybrid Civil War in America, one of a new kind obviously, never seen before.
Dividing politically and geographically the States, in Democratic States and Republican States, instead of North and South, as it was before the past Civil War, but especially dividing the people in a social, class, and racial sense.
Then who knows why, I believe that a Trump presidency could at least, in addition, make an attempt to pursue a policy aimed at improving the social and economic conditions of most US people, say 90%, or maybe even 99%, and hopefully succeed in it, he could also bring peace to Ukraine, thanks to his charisma and his trump (!) cards.
And in some way like Nixon, Trump might have success in dividing Russia from China.
Although of course, this may not be to everyone’s liking e.g. the arms lobby and the British warmongers as well as the Democrats, maybe.
