The Watchdog

Walking across the ground of the allotments in my neighbourhood this one little dog barked at me like a watchdog... his fellows didn't think I had to be warned off. These allotments are like little paradises now.

With a sideways glance, I could see this barking yelp as Trump and his screaming supporters. Below is an article from the daily newspaper De Volkskrant about the republican Party in the USA that identifies with the wounded pride of Trump and thus puts the democracy of the USA at risk. Below is Google's translation:

" "Lock her up!" supporters of Donald Trump shouted at his campaign rallies about his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton six years ago. According to many Republicans, she had to go to jail because as Secretary of State she had used her private server for official mails.


Now that the FBI has raided ex-President Trump for taking confidential government documents from the White House after he resigned against the rules, Trump's supporters are sounding very different sounds. “This.Is.War” headlined a Trump-promoting website. Republicans spoke of "Nazi practices" and complained that America has become a "dictatorship" under President Biden.


Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, fueled the fire by announcing that Republicans will immediately start an investigation against Attorney General Merrick Garland if they win the Congressional election in November.


The Republicans' outraged response to the Trump house search shows once again how dangerously deeply divided America has become. The political atmosphere of war already started with the crusade launched by Newt Gingrich in the 1990s against President Bill Clinton and the Democrats, but has been threatening to tear the country apart since Trump came on the political scene.


voting machines
Trump's complaints about the "political" raid on Mar-a-Lago, for which the FBI had received permission from a judge, sound hypocritical. He himself pressured his justice minister to declare widespread fraud in the 2020 elections and tried to bomb an obedient official as a new minister. He also seriously considered having the military confiscate the voting machines that conspiracy theorists say had turned votes for him into votes for Biden.


The collective anger amongst Republicans demonstrates how uncannyly the party has come to identify with the personal woes of Trump, who is the subject of numerous investigations. Even his role in the storming of the Capitol on January 6 last year, with which his supporters wanted to reverse Biden's election victory, is not a problem for the majority of the  Republicans.


In the recent Republican primaries, a significant number of candidates who share Trump's private obsession with the "stolen elections" have won. Three Republican Congressmen who voted to impeach Trump were sent home by Republican voters. Presumably, his chief critic, Liz Cheney, who to his anger even sat on the congressional committee investigating the storming of the Capitol, will be the next victim of Trump's revenge next week.


Trust sacrificed
But it goes far beyond a beating in the Republican party. Everything is being sacrificed for Trump's wounded pride after his defeat in 2020, including Americans' confidence in their political institutions and the judiciary.


The fact that the Republican party leadership is also actively participating in this is a bad sign for the American democracy."