At 7.20am (Greenwich mean time) on November 4th 2020 Donald Trump declared himself winner of USA presidential election.
His victory claim was based on votes described as counted in swing states. The swing states gave Trump sufficient electoral college votes.
Accompanying his “victory” is a majority for the Republican party in the Senate.
Suppression of votes is the reason Trump “won.”
1) Mail-in ballots: Millions of mail-in ballots (postal votes) were uncounted and/or destroyed by Republican-appointed assessors backed by Republican-appointed judges.
Supreme Court, with a Republican majority, declared mail-in ballots will not be counted after polling day.
2) In-person voting: Voting locations were greatly reduced in number in Democrat-majority districts. Long queues deterred many people in such districts from voting.
Police and armed militia intimidated and physically prevented voters from voting in Democrat-majority districts.
People were preventing for voting for many spurious reasons.
Trump’s “victory” is a victory for cheating, for intimidation and for fraud. Rampant criminal behaviour throughout the Republican party, by officials at polling locations and at counts, among state politicians and local politicians, and by Trump-appointed Supreme Court judges as well as many other federal judges, succeeded in its aim of winning power (president and senate) for the Republican party and its backers.
This illegal undemocratic power grab was not opportunist. It had been prepared for during the previous four years. Nor is it the work of just Trump and his immediate allies and family; the entire Republican party and all its powerful and/or wealthy supporters are guilty.
In all capitalist countries democracy is a pretence of democracy but if the result of an election is annulled then even the pretence has disappeared. Trump’s “victory” is a coup, a power grab obtained with physical force, fraudulent administration and corrupt judiciary.
Undemocratic changes in government are a feature of USA’s foreign policy, most recently in Bolivia – thankfully overturned in the country’s next general election, and an attempted but failed coup in Venezuela, but it is unusual for a USA government to use the same tactic at home.
Bringing foreign policy back home is a symptom of desperate times for the capitalists. Despite a Biden presidency and a Democrat-run congress being similar economically to Trump and Republican respectively, the desperation to maintain complete control has become so acute, extentiated by the Covid-19 pandemic, that a Democratic government would have been too problematic for the financial elite.
Trump and the Republicans’ main anti-achievements of his first term as president were huge tax cuts for the wealthiest and abandonment of environmental protections. His intent for his second term includes removal of healthcare, removal of welfare financial provision, further destruction of the environment and severe crackdowns on protest.
Endgame capitalism is the current epoch. Therein the entire structure of society is expendable. Republican philosophy, like the Tories in UK, no longer has any interest in governance. Public infrastructure, public labour, public services and the public themselves are now just expendable and, simultaneously, a means of short-term wealth generation for a small elite.
An immoral, unethical sociopath like Trump, whose humanity never developed, whose focus is his own wealth and who is in hock to several criminals around the world for billions of dollars, is precisely the (non) leader that financial criminals need.
USA is no longer even pretending to be a democracy.
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