Donald Trump is marshalling his supporters for another tilt at the presidency in 2024. If he wins, American governance, alliances and democracy could be destroyed. | OPINION by Peter Hartcher
insurrection have told us a great deal more about something that we already knew: that Donald Trump tried to overthrow democracy in the US by fomenting a violent attack on the Congress.
He plans to fix that in his second: “The most important lesson Trump took from his first term relates to who he hires and to whom he listens,” writes Jonathan Swan, a political reporter for the US news outlet Axios, in a“Trump has reduced his circle of advisers and expunged nearly every former aide who refused to embrace his view that the 2020 election was ‘stolen’.”So wilful rejection of electoral reality is now compulsory in Trumpworld.
It’s a plan to “radically reshape the federal government”, to stack it with loyalists to his “America First” ideology, writes Swan, formerly a political reporter with this masthead. One of Trump’s recruiters, Andrew Kloster, has said: “I think the first thing you need to hire for is loyalty. The funny thing is, you can learn policy. You can’t learn loyalty”.
For countries like Australia, this is a grave risk. The US alliance is founded on a shared interest in an open trading system and mutual assistance in case of war. Trump is opposed to both concepts.
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