After only seven months of holding the Donald Trump office has a united state in hand. Or rather in a hug? Not only Americans are currently experiencing one of the latest demonstrations of the power of one person. Due to the dependence on the USA A significant part of the world also has to dance like Trump will play him.
The president on his own imposes huge criminal duties on half the world, sends the National Guard to the United States against the will of local authorities and threatens to receive licenses from television stations critically focused on his policy. Something stops him, however, from turning to the dictatorship.
Trump took care of this before the office: he chose thousands of loyal people, whom he immediately replaced the staff of Joe Biden in administration. He himself marked his presence on the first day of office, signing 78 decrees.
This form of decision making allows the US President to rule with the Congress, as well as his own party. Former Trump's adviser, Steve Bannon, described this tactics as follows: “Everything we have to do is flood space every day.”
“We find it all at Trump”
From history, you can deduce a diagram of transforming democracy into a dictatorship: the attack always starts with restriction of the freedom of the press and freedom of speech, blaming minorities and immigrants, creating hostile stereotypes and demonizing educational institutionssuch as universities.
“We find all this at Trump,” says Klemens Fischer, a professor of international relations and geopolitics at the University of Cologne. In the first term, the attacks were still uncoordinated, but now everything is going on coherentlythanks to which it achieves a greater effect.
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– Trump partially abuses its function to perform Personal goals – says Fischer. Example: Trump threatens Brazil with sanctions to stop the proceedings against former President Jair Bolsonaro, accused of attempted a coup. He calls the investigation against his colleague “witch hunt” and “politically motivated persecution”.
According to Fischer, Trump tries to “examine the boundaries of the President's Office by all means.” These are boundaries that as the last instance can only be determined by the Supreme Court and which are also secured by the division of power, i.e. the control and balance system.
Fischer claims that the style of governing Trump from a European point of view seems almost autocratic and has dictatorial features. – However, as long as he warns the rulings of the Supreme Court, democracy is preserved – adds the expert.
“I'm not a dictator”
Trump, who gets along well with leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, seems satisfied with comparisons to dictators. Sam willingly plays with this term. Already after the election last year he announced that on the first day of office he would play the “dictator”, which he also did, signing many decrees. This week, he flirted again with the thought that Americans may like to have a “dictator” at the head of the country.
However, Trump assures that there is nothing to worry about. “I don't like dictators. I'm not a dictator. I am a man with great sense and a clever mind,” he said.
It sounds very similar to the words of a man who does not call himself a dictator, but boasts that he is a “military genius”: North Korean leader Kim Jong Una.
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