Conrad Black, a leading Canadian publisher, said in an article in the English-language Epoch Times on Monday (Feb. 15) that the Never Trumper faction in both the Democratic and Republican parties is looking forward to Trump‘s invisibility in politics. But Trump is the greatest rallying cry in American politics today, and in good health, so Trump doesn’t have to do much (clean up and do nothing) to beat his opponents.
Black is one of Canada‘s most prominent financiers in 40 years and one of the world’s leading newspaper publishers. He is the authoritative biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and recently published the book Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.
A translation of Blank’s article follows.
Within hours of the acquittal of former President Trump in the second impeachment case, a chasm was drawn between Trump and his supporters and the specter of the recently resurgent “No Trump Forever movement.
Trump’s political enemies within the party have paled after four years of invisibility due to the high level of loyalty within the Republican Party, but they are also waiting for the day to strike back at the uninvited guest. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) finally unmasked, apparently believing that his vote to acquit Trump met the requirement for Republican loyalty, but at the same Time he made it clear in a speech on the Senate floor Saturday (Feb. 13) that he was a perpetual Trump denier with the tone of a bystander.
He effectively invited Democrats to prosecute the former president in Washington’s criminal courts and concocted the silly claim that Trump’s challenge to the honesty of the election results was inciting violence against the U.S. government throughout the post-election period. This was widely circulated, but nothing about Trump’s conduct met the legal standard for a conviction for inciting violence, and not by a long shot.
Former prosecutor McConnell knows this all too well. Like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), he spread the word that someone’s “dignity was compromised” by the attack on the Capitol. The building is stunning, but Congress is despised by 85 percent of the public. Trump is not the root of the problem, McConnell, Democratic Senate leader Schumer and Pelosi are.
The real problem is that the Wingnut Trumpers know there are real problems with the Electoral College vote in several swing states. But they are happy that Trump lost, but are trying to take advantage of the prestige that the Republican Party has gained from Trump’s leadership.
McConnell is said to be exasperated by his expulsion as Senate majority leader after two Democrats won a showdown for the Georgia Senate in January. Trump apparently feels that many Republican congressional leaders have been happy about a future without Trump since the election, so the outgoing president is under no obligation to help McConnell become majority leader.
Trump likely believes that if Republicans control the Senate, a Biden administration would be justified in not enacting a radical left-wing Sanders-Ocasio plan. He may think that the United States would be better off experiencing what it would mean to implement a so-called “Biden-Sanders Joint Plan,” including a Green New Deal, open borders, huge tax increases, capitulation to teachers’ unions on school openings, government subservience to anti-American historical revisionism that hates whites, and foreign appeasement of Iran, Palestine and even the Chinese Communist Party. appeasement.
McConnell and Trump were able to agree on taxes, the confirmation of judges, and on the initial (meaningless) impeachment. But for the first six months of the Trump Administration, McConnell stood by and watched to see if Trump would be impeached. He gave no support on health care and allowed Republican senators to hypocritically vote multiple times to want to repeal ObamaCare when they knew Obama would veto their votes. But when it became clear that Trump would repeal ObamaCare, they stumbled and slowed down.
McConnell is no longer shy: He thinks Trump is a terrible outlier, and since he has lost, the Republican Party should return to the post-Reagan era in which McConnell and his cronies feel comfortable.
Trump’s party
Immediately after the Senate impeachment ruling, Trump issued a statement making clear that he has no intention of relinquishing control of the Republican Party and that all polls show that the vast majority of Republicans are Trump supporters. Now if running for the Republican presidential nominee, only Trump supporters will be supported, especially Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), Missouri Senator Josh Hawley (R) and Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R).
The legitimacy of Biden’s election victory remains a real issue, despite Superman’s attempts to suppress it. In Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where a change in the proper distribution of just 50,000 votes would have flipped the election results, it is hard to prove that there is no possibility of that happening.
Trump’s accomplishments usually make it easy to get him re-elected, but his personality as a public figure has offended some Americans. In this case, Trump’s quiet inactivity will become him. If the new administration continues to battle it out between far-left and traditional Democrats, and if Trump’s Republican movement gains the full support of gun owners, religious people, small businessmen, farmers, believers in traditional American virtues as they always have been, and anyone who cares about personal safety and law enforcement, then Trump’s popularity will grow steadily in the run-up to next year’s midterm elections. He must make his strong voice heard by his supporters often, but not too often.
If the Biden Administration retreats from its leftward lean and does OK, then the Trump phenomenon will wane. If the Biden administration stumbles, is ineffective, and shifts to the left, then Trump’s power will grow steadily without him having to do much to strengthen it.
Trump has pledged that he will continue to remake the Republican Party in the now familiar way. Those who remain in the Republican Party who hate Trump will have their political careers depending on President Biden. A quieter, wiser, more focused Trump is far more powerful than his opposition in the Republican Party. Those who have spent the last four years in hiding, plotting or spending their days in agony over still tediously remaining in the Republican Party.
Since Trump is the greatest rallying cry in American politics today and is in good health, the prophecy of his invisibility in politics is not to be believed. And it is more likely to be the fate of that prophet.
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