Veteran American journalist Thomas Friedman believes that although Americans still do not know who won the presidential election;

But they know very well that the loser is the United States of America.

In his article in the New York Times, Friedman described the four years of Donald Trump's presidency, which has just ended, as the most divisive and the most deceitful in American history.

Because it attacked the twin pillars of American democracy;

Ie truth and trust.

Trump criticized that he did not spend a single day of his term trying to be the president of all the people, breaking the rules, and destroying norms in ways that no other president dared, until Tuesday night, when he falsely claimed electoral fraud, and called on the Supreme Court to intervene and stop voting, as if such It is possible, even from a distance.

The writer suggested that if Joe Biden won, it might be with a narrow margin of votes in many of the major states that represent the battlefield, and there will not be an overwhelming majority telling Trump and those around him that this is enough "Get lost in our faces, and the politics of division to this country is not once considered. Other ".

White Minority


Friedman noted that this election underscored the fault lines when the president presented himself, using many twisted paths during the campaign, as the leader of America's shrinking white majority.

This is a fact, as the US Census Bureau predicts that by the middle of this year non-whites will make up the majority of the 74 million children in the country, and it is estimated that by 2040 whites will make up 49% of the US population, and Latinos, blacks, Asians and multiracials will constitute 51%.

The Republican Party will continue its strategy of using every legal method, albeit very harmful democratically, to seize power even though most Americans vote against them.

Among the many whites, particularly working-class white males who do not have college degrees, it is evident that they are disturbed by the fact;

Indeed, resistance to it, that the American nation is moving at a steady pace to become its whites "a minority", and that is why they see Trump as a bulwark against the social, cultural and economic effects of this change.

The writer mentioned that what many Democrats see as a good transformation that many whites see as a fundamental cultural threat, which fuels another murderous trend that has been reinforced by this particular election.

Trumpiyya

"This means that Trumpism is the future of the Republican Party," says Harvard University professor of organizational behavior Gautam Mukunda.

"And the tactically unique thing about Trumpism is that she never tried to get the support of the majority of Americans," Mukunda added. "So the Republican Party will continue its strategy of using every legal method, albeit very harmful democratically, to seize power even though most Americans vote against them." Like the way they crammed two Supreme Court justices. "

Mukunda added that this means that all pressures on the American system of government will continue to grow.

Because in the old electoral system, Republicans could theoretically control both the White House and the Senate despite the desires of the vast majority of the American people.

"No system can withstand this type of stress, and it will break at some point," he concluded.

Friedman concluded his article hoping that things will go well, that the country will overcome these difficulties, and that anyone who wins these elections will come to the correct conclusion that we simply cannot continue to tear each other apart.

But the current policies and political system of the country do not herald the launch with the scale and speed that we badly need, "as the writer quotes.