Why Donald Trump Has to Win the Election
Why it is good he has won the last time and why he should win again
Why it is paramount Donald Trump wins the election, not for the sake of Donald Trump or Republicans, but the sake of the US democracy (and maybe for the sake of democracy all around the world)...
It is hard to read and, believe me, even harder to write. I can’t remember one policy or one step taken by Donald Trump I would support. On the other hand, there are plenty of policies Joe Biden promises to implement I am fond of. Nevertheless, it seems we have got into the point when Donald Trump might save democracy in the USA — most probably without noticing it and most definitely without wanting it. To be clear, when I talk about US democracy, it applies, unfortunately, also to the rest of the world, but for the sake of clarity, let’s focus on America only.
Donald Trump is definitely not a saviour of our time. Quite contrary, he is the pain we, as a society, are feeling for some time and it is precisely why he must stay for a bit longer.
Joe Biden is offering us a vision of his victory taking us back to normal, fixing everything Donald Trump and his supporters done to democracy in the United States and around the world. And it is precisely why he should not win the election.
Biden’s vision is more than just dangerous, it is deadly. It creates an impression that all our problems can go away with Donald Trump, but the system racism hasn’t been created by Donald Trump, the brutal consequences of economic inequality, of the environmental pollution, of the big business influence over politics, have not been created by the Trump administration.
Donald Trump is the pain caused by the disease of all of these problems we, as a democratic society in the rich part of the world, are facing for decades or even for centuries. The pain is the symptom of the disease, not its cure, that’s for sure. However, we have been taking the painkillers for a long time and have been self-deluding ourselves that when the pain goes away, the disease goes with it. However, the disease remains and is spreading all over the place. Therefore, we have got ourselves into the point we need proper shock therapy. Yes, we need to feel the pain so we are forced to start taking care of ourselves, to cure the disease. The self-delusion is not the cure, it's just the denial of the situation which is worse than the pain.
Supporters of both presidential candidates have the feeling we have to go back to some point in our history when everything was fine and good — there is no such point. We have to go forward and, unfortunately, it seems we can’t take the easy way — we have tried it in the past, with Clinton, with Obama (and Biden), and we have failed. It seems the hard (truly ‘hard hard’) way is the only possible way how to acknowledge ourselves we have a problem…
… Donald Trump has shown us, how fragile our democracy is and what systemic flaws we still have to fix to be democratic, or more precisely to uphold our ideas of democracy. Donald Trump is not the only guide we have on this terrifying journey, there are others. Bolsonaro in Brasil, Orbán in Hungary, Erdogan in Turkey, PiS in Poland, Duterte in Philippines and others and others. And they are not the bad apples…they are products of our flawed systems.
They are dangerous and they should not hold the offices they are holding. However, it could be even more dangerous to vote Trump out of the office and pretend it is all that has to be done to repair our democracy. Pretend and wait for another Donald Trump who would be more intelligent, more cautious and who would be able to destroy what has left of our democracy without us even noticing it.
