Donald Trump exploits the victim role

Trump supporters in front of his Mar-A-Lago estate

He and his supporters see any trial against the ex-president as an attack by the unpopular Washington establishment on his claim as America’s legitimate leader.

(Photo: ddp/UPI)

Hardly anything occupies international politics as much as the question of whether Donald Trump will run for the presidential election again in a good two years. The polycrisis we are currently experiencing gives this question an almost apocalyptic dimension.

It is a mixture of a pandemic that has not yet been overcome, a monstrous war in Eastern Europe and a threatening escalation of the Taiwan conflict, which once again brings with it a completely different potential geopolitical threat.

Despite a relatively weak President, Joe Biden, the United States appears as an indispensable foreign policy nation in this situation. No matter how much the Europeans swear by the need for their “strategic autonomy”.

Domestically, however, the United States is more unstable than it has been for decades: a Republican party that still largely believes in Trump’s fairy tale of great election fraud and continues to court him as the secret leader of the Grand Old Party.

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