Trump has returned magnificently, but as the same Trump?

Trump's chance of winning against his rival Kamala Harris in the US elections was not a very remote possibility. Even though the polls were now showing a dead heat, those closely following the field had come to the point of regarding Trump's breasting the tape as certain. Still, the surprise of the election is that Trump won by such a wide margin. He gained a wide margin of superiority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, in a way not seen in any election for many years. This produces a unity of powers that has been granted to no president for a long time, which will bring about a Trump administration much stronger than the previous time, and probably much different.

Personally, I had been in a state of indifference in which I was the most unconcerned and uninterested I have ever been toward the US elections I have followed for years, so I was not paying much attention to the news coming in on this matter. This indifference of mine was of course not merely a matter of my own personal affairs. It stemmed from my thinking that both US politics and the US voter are in a pitiable state, left between two options that have both been practically taken over by Zionist lobbies. In the US, where the elections are lived in the atmosphere of a full festival of democracy and where people are strongly given the feeling that they are governing the country, what is really going on is merely a choice between two options each worse than the other. Two options, neither of which proposes a better solution than the other regarding the US policies that have for more than a year been driving every conscientious American mad over the genocide taking place in Gaza.

US universities witnessed protests that perhaps had not been seen even then, since the events of 1968. Protests unseen in US history in all the big cities showed that the American people were not on their country's side in its Israel policies. Nevertheless, the Democratic government continued to insist on its support for Israel. Trump, the candidate facing it, for his part did not refrain from hosting Netanyahu, and amid the burning agenda of the genocide against Gaza promised nothing other than Israel's right to defend itself and his support for it.

American democracy has been taken hostage by Zionist lobbies. Perhaps it is possible that the elected president will show a difference on this or that policy. One may be at a different distance and in a different relationship toward Turkey than the other. But regarding pursuing an effective policy against Israel, which today is the world's number one issue and has blocked the whole world order, none of them holds out any hope. Probably it is precisely these reasons that somewhat reduce interest in the elections. Yet the American people have no radical difference from other peoples in this respect. They too do not refrain from making a choice among the options presented to them, hoping.

Of course, with the choice he makes, the voter both expresses this hope and says a great many other things. Considered together with some of the problems experienced in society, he speaks with the opportunity that falls into his hands once every 4 years. On this occasion it was expressed very strongly that a very serious reaction had formed in society against the 4-year administration of the Democratic Party.

Although there has been an increase in the populations to which the Democrats traditionally appeal, namely immigrants, Hispanics, those of African origin, Muslims and others, Trump won the elections by increasing his votes among these groups as well. This situation is also interpreted as an explosion of accumulated anger against Democratic Party policies.

Undoubtedly, Trump's messages of being anti-war and of pulling the US back to its own affairs very well captured a reaction, even an anger, that had formed against the policies the Democratic Party put forth in the wars in Ukraine and Israel during the interval of 4 years he had given. Moreover, on this subject Trump was building a strong reference for himself with his previous experience. He had the chance to present what he had done as a guarantee of what he would do. That he did not start a single new war during 4 years and stayed away from wars constituted a serious difference even in terms of US history. That someone like Trump, who draws attention with his aggressive, impolite, crude rhetoric, should stand out so much in anti-war stance makes for an interesting situation.

Although he shows no difference from his rival in his support for Israel, his approach, which very well articulated his anti-war stance and the costs to his country of the adventures the US has undertaken by sending troops to other countries and starting wars, was found sincere by the American people and supported. The claim that the US policies in this direction until now have, while ordering the world with their citizens' taxes, deprived their own citizens of welfare and peace is today generally accepted by the American people. This imperial approach has not only brought no returns to the American people but has turned the US into a complete object of hatred in the world.

We are in no position to expect Trump or any other US politician to be a source of solution for Gaza or for other problems in the world from here on. The US is not the solution to the problems but their cause. If it stepped aside, if it did not provoke Ukraine, if it did not provoke Israel even more by giving it unlimited support, the problems would resolve themselves anyway.

Perhaps Trump's lesser-evil side is that he is inclined to a pragmatist approach that will see that such provocative, interventionist or imperial policies in the last analysis give no benefit to the US either, but on the contrary harm it with heavy costs.

We also do not forget his policies insensitive to Palestine, which supported Jerusalem's being Israel's capital and Israel's annexation of the occupied Golan. But it is also cited among the factors that will drive his policies in the new period that, despite all the support he gave, Netanyahu eagerly congratulated Biden in the 2020 elections before the results were even finalized, and that he has not forgotten this.

With no expectation or possibility of being elected again, and with the support of the Senate and the House of Representatives before him, he will have four years in which he can display his already existing unpredictability while enjoying it even more.

The world was in an unpredictable uncertainty; with Trump it has become even more unpredictable. But will people who have seen and lived through the worst of everything see worse than this? God knows best.