Monday 24 January 2022

If America is not careful they are going to have Trump back as president

The one thing which is absolutely concrete certain following the completion of Joe Biden's first year as president: Donald Trump is still the biggest thing the Republican Party has on its side. The former one-term president is in the news every day and very very few Republican lawmakers have the cajones to drop him and start supporting other potential candidates for the 2024 election. People like Senator Lindsey Graham have gone much further. He talks of nothing else but getting Trump back in the White House. I used to have respect for Senator Graham because when Senator John McCain was alive the two of them used to be like twins, very strong on defence matters, very well informed and revered in at least some sections of the Senate. Today Graham is a Trump loyalist to such an extent one wonders whether the former president has offered him the Pentagon or State Department job if he wins in 2024. After those four climactic years when Trump was in power anyone with any sense, intelligence or hope for the future should have experienced only one emotion when Trump was voted out in 2020: huge relief! Where would we be today if Trump had won the 2020 election? I shudder to think. But people like Lindsey Graham are convinced that what the United States needs more than anything else is another four years of Donald Trump as president. I spent three years as Pentagon Correspondent in Washington for the illustrious Times newspaper, so I learnt quite a bit about how Washington ticks and never forgot that I was working in the capital of the most powerful nation on earth. It still is, just. But if Graham and co really think that Trump is the answer, then I fear for the country's soundness of mind and future prospects.

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