Quote (ferdia @ Oct 3 2022 12:52pm)
From Al Jazeera:
Despite the former US president’s personal failings and the ongoing legal investigations against him, Trump’s populist brand is making headway, both nationally and internationally. From Europe to Latin America and from North Africa to southeast Asia, more and more leaders are following in Trump’s footsteps.
Some are winning elections, as Giorgia Meloni did in Italy last Sunday. Some are threatening hell on earth if they lose elections, as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro has warned. And others are waging successful political campaigns and gaining ground fast, as Marine Le Pen has done in France. Even Tunisia’s populist president, Kais Saied, has taken a few pages from Trump’s playbook, attacking the system that propelled him to power, dissolving parliament, and demonising and repressing the opposition, all in the name of “the people”.
America, of course, is the big jackpot. And thus far, Trump has defied the odds and all the political obituaries by maintaining his control over the Republican Party. Last spring, the United States editor of the Financial Times claimed that Trump was “losing his stranglehold on Republicans”. Yet by the end of the summer, the usually sober newspaper’s editorial warned that “Donald Trump now owns the Republicans” — only weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
Indeed, according to recent polls, almost three-quarters of US Republican voters deny that Joe Biden is the country’s legitimately elected president. Many of the party’s candidates believe — or at least claim — that the 2020 presidential elections were stolen. If as predicted, they win either or both the Senate and House of Representatives come November, the Republicans are sure to derail or defund Biden’s ambitious social, economic and environmental programmes, and help pave the way for a potential Trump comeback in 2024.
shouldn't the propaganda network owned by Qatari murderers of gays be atleast a little more skilled at hiding the fact their "reporting" is agenda-driven ?
This post was edited by HeLiCaL on Oct 3 2022 06:35am