Mid-terms dealt a severe blow to Trump – he just doesn’t seem to understand that fact yet
I BEG to differ from the analysis by Rob Crilly of the US mid-term elections (‘President will take heart from results that offer him a populist path to winning second term’, Irish Independent, November 8).
Mr Crilly claims the elections delivered a predictable split result.
It is the case that the Republicans did well in the Senate race, but only one-third of the Senate seats were up for election and, of those, 26 were Democrat seats and only nine were Republican seats.
A truer reflection of the country’s feelings, affiliations and disgust were the election results of the candidates for the House of Representatives.
All the House seats were at stake and therefore the whole country – to any other incumbent president the results would have been devastating.
To give Mr Trump his due, he will continue to act in his sociopathic manner because he has no idea of the implications of the results, either congressional of gubernatorial, on what he can get away with.
This man is still living in the world of reality TV and God help those White House staff who try to explain what the Democratic Party’s control of the House will mean to his inane utterances.
It will not be long before he is brought to task by the House for, amongst other matters: :: Banning CNN journalists from White House press conferences because they ask him questions that he cannot answer;
:: Firing the directors of the FBI and CIA and his Attorney General in attempts to silence and hide evidence of his alleged collusion with Mr Putin in connection with the presidential election, and alleged blackmail by Mr Putin’s thugs over alleged nefarious activities;
:: His incarceration of children in military concentration camps away from their parents;
:: His racist support for white supremacists, for the only purpose of winning support for Republican candidates from fascists – which also brings into question the contradiction of these followers’ anti-Semetic Jew-hating ideology and his support of Israel.
Square pegs in round holes? Sociopaths’ utterances for short term gain?
In fact, and in passing, Mr Trump’s behaviour, and in particular Mr Trump himself, brings to mind George Clemenceau’s view that “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without the normal intervening period of civilisation”. Harry Charalambou
Muswell Hill, London