Met president Trump vrijwel ongeschonden door het 2e impeachmentproces heen staat al vrijwel vast dat USA2024 zal gaan tussen Donald Trump en huidig vicepresident Kamala Harris.

Onmiskenbaar pas na wat neerkomt op een burgeroorlog binnen de Republikeinse Partij (GOP), de komende twee jaar. De eerste salvo’s werden deze dagen gelost, voor wie er oog voor heeft.

Tussen de bedrijven door zullen we van tijd tot tijd president Joe Biden horen kwaken over unity, maar ook dat fossiel zal gaande de jaren beseffen dat een burgeroorlog binnen de grote landelijke partij die niet de zijne is hem – en zijn opvolgster – politiek van pas kan komen. Dat zal duren tot en met de Midterms2022, als de Democraten tot hun ontsteltenis zullen bemerken dat Trump de GOP opnieuw opbouwt rond belangrijke peilers als de zwarte en Latino bevolking van de USA / groepen die de democratische partij beschouwt als haar electoraal eigendom. Trump heeft echter tijdens USA2020 al laten zien dat die vooraanname toe is aan herziening. en ik verwacht tijdens de Midterms een sterke toename van succesvolle zwarte Republikeinse kandidaten te zullen zien. Dat is niet alleen een extrapolatie van een proces dat we tijdens USA2020 al in gang gezien hebben, maar ook strategisch de juiste weg. Alls dit in 2022 de succesvolle weg bleek, zal dat ook binnen de Republikeinse Partij een helende werking hebben. Veel van de senatoren die afgelopen week voor impeachment stemden zullen door hun lokale partij-afdelingen bij het grof vuil worden gezet (dat proces is al gestart). Trump is de juiste man om deze emancipatie te laten slagen, en het zal; het zelfvertrouwen bij de Republikeinen in districten waar ze nooit enige kans maakten sinds Reagan versterken.

Een man die niet geloosd zal worden is senator Ron Johnson uit Wisconsin. Johnson relativeerde afgelopen dagen het 2e impeachment proces langs dezelfde lijnen als de advocaten van Trump dat deden (vernietigend verslag gisteren hier)

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said on Monday that he doesn’t think the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol was an “armed insurrection,” while pointing out that the Democrat’s rhetoric was hypocritical.
Johnson made the comments during an appearance on the radio talk show 1130 WISN where he told host Jay Weber that while he thinks the violence at the Capitol was reprehensible, he doesn’t believe the narrative pushed by the Democrats and the media was entirely accurate.

He underscored that the violence was perpetrated by “groups of agitators,” not the tens of thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump.

“The hundreds of thousands of people that attend those Trump rallies, those are the people that love this country. They never would have done what happened on Jan. 6,” Johnson said. “That is a group of people that love freedom. That is a group of people … we need to unify and keep on our side.”

Mensen als Johnson zullen voor The Donald onmisbaar zijn bij de komende Trump-Renaissance:

Johnson acknowledged that unacceptable behavior played out on Jan. 6. He condemned the conduct of the rioters but also took issue with the Democrats’ characterization of the event by calling it an “armed” insurrection.

“When you hear the word ‘armed,’ don’t you think of firearms? Here’s the questions I would have liked to ask—how many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired? I’m only aware of one, and I’ll defend that law enforcement officer for taking that shot. It was a tragedy, but I think there was only one,” Johnson said.
“If that was a planned armed insurrection, man, you had really a bunch of idiots,” he added.

Mensen als deze senator, met een hart voor het land en weinig persoonlijke ambities voor het presidentschap, zijn wat de basis van de nieuwe GOP zou moeten zijn.

Johnson, who has been frequently targetedby the mediafor being a vocalsupporter of the former president, said that he and his colleagues were aware of the hypocrisy surrounding the Senate impeachment trial and the criticism against former President Donald Trump.
He said Trump and other Republicans received “attacks” and scrutiny for doing things that were previously done by Democrats.

En ook:

“To my mind, while the house managers are making their case … okay you’re accusing Donald Trump of all this stuff, but what about Hillary Clinton telling [President Joe] Biden … never to concede the race, you know. How about all the folks that, you know, never condemned the [Black Lives Matter] and Antifa peaceful protest turned to riots that burned down dozens of buildings in Racine,” Johnson said, adding that some of these lawmakers were supportive of the “defund the police” movement.
“So you’re sitting in that trial, you’re listening to all this, and you understand, it’s just dripping with hypocrisy.”

Dit kan overigens nog heel leuk worden:

The Wisconsin senator said that while he learned new details about the Jan. 6 incidents from the House’s case, there were still many unanswered questions from the day that Americans would like to know. He added that he has sent letters to the Sergeant at Arms of both the House and the Senate and has not received any responses.

Want wat volgt is een recept voor vuurwerk:

Several House Republican leaders on Monday sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-Calif.) asking for information about what she knew about the breach prior to Jan. 6.
Lawmakers have indicated that they would like a 9/11-style commission to probe into the Jan. 6 incident in order to prevent it from happening in the future. Pelosi on Monday expressedcommitment to establishing such a commission.

Want zo’n onderzoek valt nu nauwelijks nog tegen te houden nu Pelosi er zo hard om heeft gevraagd, en daar een positieve reactie op krijgt.

“I’d like to know, did the Capitol Hill police inform the House sergeant at arms and the Senate sergeant at arms the day before the attack that they needed more troops?” Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Sunday after mentioning he believed there was a preplanned element to the highly publicized actions that took place.

“We need to look at did Nancy Pelosi know on January 5 that there was a threat to the Capitol…
What did President Trump do after the attack…
We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again, and I want to make sure that the Capitol footprint can be better defended next time,” he continued.

Graham would add that the preplanned element had no connection to former president Donald Trump’s speech during a rally earlier that day.

Beide partijen lijken duidelijk andere verwachtingen te hebben van wat er uit zou kunnen komen:

“I think there should be a complete investigation about what happened on Jan. 6. Why was there not more law enforcement, National Guard already mobilized, what was known, who knew it, and when they knew it, all that, because that builds the basis so this never happens again in the future,” Cassidy said.

On the other side of the aisle, Democrat Senator Dennis Coons also vocalized support for such a commission, telling ABC “there’s still more evidence that the American people need and deserve to hear.”

“A 9/11 commission is a way that we make sure that we secure the Capitol going forward and that we lay bare the record of just how responsible and how abjectly violating of his constitutional oath president Trump really was,” Coons said on Sunday.

Dat dit wordt gezegd na een impeachmentproces over deze zelfde zaak is overigens iets dat niet door Coons wordt geadresseerd, maar is beslist opvallend.

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