DONKEY FIGHTS ELEPHANT, AMERICAN POLITICS.(updated)

By K P PASWAN

I am tired of talking of Trump, declares Joe Biden,  Donkey, the party ’symbol of the Democrats and Elephant, the party symbol of the GOP are engaged in a fierce battle for survival and has created a vicious political impact. 

Strange things are happening after 6^th Jan when a few hundreds overzealous supporters of Trump attacked and vandalized the Capitol. Intense rivalry between the Democrats and the Republicans tend not to as vicious as they were under Trump, when Mitch McConnell declared to crush the Democrats with merciless cruelty. Acquittal of Trump is redolent of that time, when a leading Republican declared that they cannot represent Christ of the Bible. Whether the former president Donald Trump was involved in inciting the mob has been examined and thoroughly investigated by the Capitol police. For the first time in America, a defeated president was impeached for a criminal activities.

FIGHT LIKE HELL

A pertinent question remains unanswered, why an impeachment was initiated by Nancy Pelosi, even after knowing that the impeachment was likely to be collapsed in absence of two third majority in the Senate. Contrary to party line, six Senators belonging to Republican party voted in favor of impeachment. But these dissenting Senators including Mit Romany cannot be called defectors. He is an old critic of Trump, while Mitch McConnell appears to be a confused and selfish. 

Election of next presidential election is far away, but both the Democrats and the GOP have started searching potential candidates. Kamla Harris of Democrats and Nikkei Hailey of the GOP, both are without mass following, but are dreaming of becoming, the next president of the mighty nation.

Donald Trump's instructions on illegal immigrants were far more sweeping. The administration was to focus not just on immigrants with criminal convictions, but even on those with unsettled charges.

BILLIONAIRE PRESIDENT .Donald Trump was like any other president, except that he is one of the richest persons in the world, and the first billionaire president of the US .But unlike Woodrow Wilson, he cannot be called as a racist. He was dead against illegal migrants from several Latin countries, who fed up with corruption of politicians in power, tried to flee away to the US and enjoyed the support of Democrats. Alexandria Occasio Ortez belongs to a rich country, but a corrupt Govt has resulted in poverty stricken people fleeing to USA This policy has nothing with racism or untouchability practiced in India by the ruling class. Trump was also against Technical giants of the USA, who established manufacturing units in China and many Latin American countries just to avoid taxes and indulged in money laundering and in the process helped enemies of USA. One of the techno giant who is famous for calling himself as a proud Homosexual of the US was accused of helping China in crushing Uighur Muslims.

BIASED MEDIA.

The previously sycophantic media have starting airing the scenes of attack on the capitol hill on 6^th Jan every five minutes. The best test for Joe Baden is to institute mechanism for freeing America from the criminals drug peddlers, and above all Jihadist, who are not accepted to contribute to the growth of American economy, but to thrive on stimulus packages. But there is little sign of that. Biden was elected defeating Trump, but he has made no pledge to reform the economy. Treasury Secretary is a renowned economics and as Chairperson of the Fed Reserve was admired even by Trump. That makes all other changes look a bit like window dressing. 60 percent Democrats believe that government regulations are necessary to protect the public interest, compared with just 31 percent of Republicans. If Biden goes by this logic, than nothing prevents China overtaking the US economy in a few years, and Biden is unlikely to succumb pressure to the left wing of the Democrats as no Americans worth the name would like migrations of remaining Techno giants to China.

Foreign policy was supposed to overhaul, but no major shift so far has been noticed in foreign policy. Instead the Pentagon is busy in denouncing and threatening economic sanction owing to a military coup in a poor Myanmar, but no warning was issued against China for supporting and perhaps engineering the military take over in Myanmar. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a paranoid president of Turkey dared not to speak hard against Trump, because he feared that Trump was trying to create sovereign nation for the Kurds in Turkey, but now he is accusing Biden administration of supporting the Kurdish terrorists The Republicans have long held the advantage on issue of terrorism, but the strategy got a bit harder this time, as Trump shifted his attention for war in the Middle East, and  the illegal migrants became more toxic. The poll showed a relentless downward trend in the number of people who believed that the Americans did the right thing by going into Iraq, 

The war in the Middle East is one of several underlying factors, fueling the spread of Jihadist movement. Assassination of Iranian’ General Suleimani and eliminating the self styled Caliphate Baghdadi, were supported by Trump's rivals. Does it mean that Trump should be held accountable for anti terrorism’s dirtiest business?. In the same way Biden did not  face an apocalyptic confrontation in Afghanistan, by gradual withdrawal of the American soldiers.

TRUMP AS MAN OF WORDS.

  After Second World War, the US suffered economically, because of prolonged war launched in Korea, Vietnam Iraq Afghanistan. Marshal Plan and New deal reshaped war torn western Europe, but it put the American economy under strain. When Trump tried his best to withdraw American soldiers from war ravaged countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, it was a master stroke of diplomacy. After all the war in Vietnam was started by Kennedy, who was a Democrat. Joe Biden as a Democratic Senator suggested division of Iraq in three parts with separate homeland for the Shia, the Sunnis and the Kurds. It remains to be seen if the president revives those proposals?. That nasty proposal means American soldiers will have to stay in Iraq for a longer.

Coming to Corona Virus, more people have died since 20^th Jan, when Joe Biden was sworn as president, and the situation is to some extent improving owing to mass vaccination and the credit cannot be taken by Biden’s administration, who are busy framing. new criminal charges against Trump, all these charges being investigated in various states are related to finance deals of Trump and are not likely to stand in a court of law.

 STIMULUS PACKAGE. The GOP maintains without justification that stimulus package must not go to illegal Hispanics immigrants, while the Democrats want them for all. Biden fixed the month of July, as the month, when every American would either be vaccinated or the virus would be tamed, so that the next Christmas will be normal, but by July, we  witnessed  mounting casualties as the new variant of the China virus is not likely to show slight mercy to the vulnerable Blacks, Hispanics and people of South Asian origin. If mass vaccination succeeds, than situation may improve making it possible to encourage a depressed economy to emerge as robust.

CRIMES.  White supremacy is the product of mind of both the Democrats and the Republicans. As soon as Biden was declared as winner, demands were raised to appoint brother in law of Kamla Harris, as the new Attorney General of the USA, Kamla Harris's sister Maya Harris is married to a black legal expert, this was surprising because the gentleman proposed for the federal attorney general, does not enjoy much popularity. His name was proposed simply to protect the rights of the Blacks, but barring criminals and drug trafficking, no Black faced discrimination and a large number of Blacks were given b top ranking posts by Trump.

  GUN CULTURE It is difficult to eradicate Gun culture in the US, as there is  no sincere efforts both by the GOP and the Democrats. Headlines like these would suggest that Americans have extra reasons to lock their doors both at night and sometimes at day. Biden’s actions on Guns Culture would be keenly watched. The number of people who are very worried about crimes during Biden’s presidency is up, while number who are not worried is down and for the most parts people are expected to be preoccupied with economy.

Donald Trump was a political giant, who was seen by Biden as direct challenge to his power, but there is little sign that Mr Biden’s leadership has been seriously threatened by Trump. Biden  is  facing more threats to his authority by the disgruntled Democrats, than a divided GOP. In the next four years these Democrats may indulge in devoting time in framing new criminal charges against Trump rather than helping Biden in reshaping the economy and democratic institutions in the USA. 

FINAL WORD.

It appears the ghost of late American political scientist Arthur Huntington is hunting Biden more than Trump.Paramount duty of the new president will be, how to establish a harmonious American society.Coronavirus is damaging the national image of US, despite of best vaccines,manufactured by Giant US Pharmas, a large number of Americans are avoiding vaccination Joe Biden is facing several challenges, and he needs the support of Republicans.