Stopping Trump

Published in El Pais
(Brazil) on 3 March 2016
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Translated from by Fernanda Townrow. Edited by Rachel Pott.
The populist millionaire’s victory on Super Tuesday should make the Republican Party react.

Super Tuesday’s primary election results began to brighten the outlook of front-runners in both big American parties, as they showed who could become the Republican and Democrat candidates to conquer the White House in November. What is clear from Tuesday’s decisive journey is alarming, not only for Republicans, but for the whole country.

Populist Donald Trump’s victory in seven of the eleven contested states – and his second place results in the remaining four – confirmed the problem facing the Republican Party. Although 72 percent of the delegates for the July convention, at which the presidential candidate will be appointed, have yet to be elected, Trump is quickly advancing in preference among Republican voters. The polemic candidate celebrated the victory with an unusually – for his standards – moderate tone, which was considered presidential by many in the U.S.

Not only has Trump categorically influenced the radicalization of conservative speech, he could become the Republican presidential candidate. What seemed an extravagance months ago could become reality: the one who insults and despises minorities, women and foreigners, and who offers empty solutions to complex problems, will fight for the White House in Abraham Lincoln party ranks. Time is running out for his party, and it has yet to be seen whether the Republican establishment’s attempts to stop Trump – such as concentrating all their energy and resources on another aspiring candidate – will do any good.

On the Democrat side, Hillary Clinton is ahead, but it can’t yet be said that she has beaten populist Bernie Sanders. This is proof – equally applicable in Trump’s case – of the saturation of a great part of the electorate in making politics disconnected from reality. This doesn’t mean the alternative is better.


Deter Trump

A vitória do milionário populista na Superterça deve fazer o Partido Republicano reagir

Os resultados da Superterça no processo das primárias que vivem os dois grandes partidos norte-americanos começaram a clarear o panorama daqueles que podem ser os candidatos republicano e democrata para conquistar a Casa Branca em novembro. O que se depreende da decisiva jornada de terça-feira é alarmante, não só para os republicanos, mas para todo o país.

A vitória do populista Donald Trump em sete dos 11 estados em disputa — e seu segundo lugar nos quatro restantes — confirmou que o Partido Republicano tem um problema. Embora ainda devam ser eleitos 72% dos delegados da convenção de julho na qual será designado o candidato presidencial, Trump avança em velocidade de cruzeiro nas preferências dos eleitores republicanos. O polêmico candidato comemorou a vitória com um pouco habitual — para seus padrões — tom moderado que foi interpretado nos EUA como presidencial.
Trump não só influiu definitivamente na radicalização do discurso conservador, como pode conseguir a candidatura. O que parecia uma extravagância meses atrás tem muitas possibilidades de ser uma realidade: que aquele que insulta e despreza as minorias, mulheres e estrangeiros e que oferece soluções vazias para problemas complexos lute pela Casa Branca nas fileiras do partido de Abraham Lincoln. O tempo está se esgotando para o seu partido e ainda está para ser visto que os esforços do establishment republicano para deter Trump — por exemplo, concentrar todas as suas energias e recursos em outro aspirante — possam servir para alguma coisa.

No lado democrata, Hillary Clinton ganhou terreno, mas não pode dar por vencido o populista de esquerda Bernie Sanders, prova — aplicável no caso de Trump — da saturação de grande parte do eleitorado em relação a uma forma de fazer política desconectada da realidade. O que não significa que a alternativa seja melhor.
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