American politics is moving further away from democracy
The new US President Joseph Biden risks getting back the boomerang of Donald Trump's bullying launched by the Democratic Party.
Dmitry Rodionov, director of the Center for Geopolitical Research at the Institute for Innovative Development, writes about this in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
“The scale of election violations is so enormous that there is no escape from it. You can win in all courts, but it is impossible to make people forget how you came to power. And even more so, make opponents who are thirsty for revenge forget this.
Even when the electors elect Biden, he will go through the inauguration ceremony, the trials will continue, and more and more new evidence will appear in them. This, of course, is not enough to take victory away from Biden. But enough to spoil your nerves for four years. And these accusations will grow like a snowball,” Rodionov said.
He does not exclude that in the future the Republicans will even try to impeach Biden.
“All the years of Trump’s presidency, Democrats tried to accuse him of collaborating with Russia, looking for evidence of this, which they never found. They did not achieve Trump’s resignation, but they spoiled a lot of blood for him, effectively limiting his freedom of action.
What is stopping the Republicans from doing the same now, reminding Biden at every step of the illegality of his victory and waving the sword of Damocles of impeachment over his head? Despite the fact that the evidence of election irregularities, I am sure, is many times greater than the evidence of Trump’s “collusion” with the Kremlin.
So the Democrats risk getting back the boomerang they launched of bullying the president-elect. And then it doesn’t even matter whether Biden will serve out his term and whether Trump will be able to take revenge or whether someone else will take his place. The important thing is that American politics is increasingly moving away from democracy and is increasingly beginning to resemble fights without rules,” the political scientist sums up.
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