Brazil: Donald Trump is shot at an electoral meeting; political crisis could reach unprecedented levels
We publish an unofficial translation of the article of A Nova Democracia.
This event is a reflection of a deep crisis in the imperialist system and that this crisis has once again reached the point of physical elimination of candidates for the presidency, as we have not seen since the times of the “Cold War”
Donald Trump, former ultra-reactionary president and current favorite candidate for presidency of the United States, was shot in the ear by a sniper during an electoral meeting in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 6:13 pm on July 13 (7:13 pm Brazil time). A spectator at the electoral meeting was killed, in addition to the shooter, and two other people were seriously injured.
The information now is still to be confirmed. What is already known is that the shooter, killed by the US secret service in response to the shooting, was in a privileged position, having climbed onto a roof that is no more than two floors high, close to the stage and with a clear aim at the former president and current candidate. Furthermore, to access the area where he was, theoretically the shooter had to go through the search of the local police and the FBI, in addition to having remained there despite the huge investigation that should be carried out by the secret service. Witnesses at the scene indicated to the press monopoly that they saw the shooter and questioned how the U.S. secret service could not have seen him.
The press monopoly reports that a climate of perplexity took the public. Immediately, leaders of the ultra-reactionary “Democrat” party, such as the genocidal former president Barack Obama, came forward to condemn the action against Trump and avoid electoral erosion and, above all, the escalation and generalization of political violence (a risk that cannot be discarded, because of the degree of division of the Yankee ruling classes and false polarization among the masses). The same did the current president, Joe Biden, who said he was against “sick” political violence.
So far, the political impacts are still barely measurable, but it is common knowledge among all writers, reactionary or progressive, the idea that the political crisis in the imperialist superpower tends to reach new and higher levels. It is also a tendency for Trump to emerge stronger from this incident: if he was already a favorite before, now he tends to consolidate that position. The ultra-reactionaries of the Democratic Party will later try to link this incident to Trump’s own stance, accusing him of being the initiator of the “cycle of violence” in politics. On the other hand, a crisis will also take place among them, as circumstances will require a more capable “democratic” candidate than what Joe Biden has shown himself to be, to deal with the enormous political challenge that reversing the post-attack situation represents. Furthermore, inevitably there will be an intensification of the false ultra-reactionary polarization and an even more virulent electoral campaign, which is in line with trying to give legitimacy to the political system of bourgeois democracy that is crumbling in the campaign for “votes against the greater evil”. Ultimately, the attack could generate new spiraling episodes, which would further threaten the already unstable political situation in the United States. Finally, it cannot be discarded, at this point, that this is a trick or a setup, as the history of the Yankee ruling classes is written in the history for manipulating public opinion for their ultra-reactionary goals through commotion.
Anyway, it is undoubted that this event is a reflection of a deep crisis of the imperialist system, in which the sole hegemonic superpower USA finds itself immersed, and that this crisis has once again reached the peak of the physical elimination of the candidates for the presidency, as we have not seen since the times of the “Cold War”. It is a greater proof of the remarkable depth of the general crisis of decomposition, which penetrates from the economy in stagnation and recession over several decades, to the deep division of its ideologues and politicians.
