Trump Is Back

“Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.” Donald Trump.

The campaign slogan Donald Trump used in his first presidential campaign in 2016, “Make America Great Again,” remained just that, a slogan, because he failed to achieve what he promised during his term in office. He only put the United States in an isolationist bubble and engaged in confrontation with the rest of the world.

His remarks about immigration, especially about Mexicans, whom he called “bad men,” “rapists and criminals,” was another of the hallmarks of his time in the White House. And yet another “pearl” he gave us was his belief and remarks that the pandemic was a ruse by China to weaken his presidency.

In his second campaign for the presidency when he sought reelection in 2020, the world was dumbfounded by the violent assault on the Capitol by his most fervent supporters, people Trump himself incited. Trump’s time as president featured two impeachments, four subsequent criminal indictments, a lawsuit in New York and pending charges in Georgia, Manhattan, Florida and Washington, in addition to investigations throughout the United States.

He is also implicated in Jeffrey Epstein’s “papers” as a frequent travel companion to Epstein’s island for reasons everyone knows about.

In spite of all this, Trump is back, and today he is leading the primaries as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. Trump’s three main axes to grind are not very different from what he did and said during his short political career: election fraud, economic collapse under President Joe Biden, and illegal immigration. It is the same formula, only this time he is claiming fraud by the Electoral College. Incredible as it may seem, he continues to connect with Republican supporters. Just look at what happened in Iowa and New Hampshire, where he swept the votes; even Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race after the showing in Iowa.

During this new journey to the Republican candidacy, Trump is far ahead of his opponent, Nikki Haley, who served as Trump’s ambassador to the U.N., although there is still a long way to go. The next primary is in South Carolina, where Haley served as governor, and if she loses there, she will most likely drop out, leaving Trump as the candidate again to face incumbent President Biden, who is also leading in the polls. In other words, it seems that everything is lined up for the two former U.S. presidents to face each other again at the ballot box.

However, all is not lost, with U.S. analysts pointing out that although Trump’s strongest base is within the Republican spectrum, the independent or moderate sector of that base will not vote for him in November. Not to mention that during the presidential campaign, Trump may be tried and even sentenced.

The bad thing is that Biden does not excite anyone, and now voters can compare the job both candidates did as president and how they led the country during their respective terms, an area in which Biden is not doing well either. It is expected to be a close election. The only thing left to do is to appeal to voters and let them know that what is at stake here is democracy.