Bulletin No48 juillet 2024 The gunshot that pierced Donald Trump's ear has relaunched the campaign for the presidential election in the United States. This event, which cannot be described as providential, even if Trump sees the hand of God in its outcome, just before the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee, Pennsylvania,
erased in one fell swoop the image of Donald Trump being pursued by the courts for various crimes ranging from financial offenses to the confiscation of sensitive files including the buying of witnesses in a private matter. Note also that the Supreme Court of the United States, largely appointed by the same Trump, extended his presidential immunity, avoiding some nasty trials. This is how, innocent as the child who has just been born, candidate Trump was able to stage his speech of unity to the nation and relaunch his campaign under the slogan of MAGA (Make America Great Again; Return to America its Greatness). Saved, according to him, by the grace of God, here is the strong man that America would need to face a world in turmoil in which the United States alone can no longer dictate.
This shot, which we should therefore attribute to providence, gives particular relief to the televised debate of June 27 which opposed D. Trump and J. Biden in the perspective of the next presidential election. On this subject, it is an opinion widely shared by political observers, both in the United States and abroad, that this debate has been largely calamitous and particularly for President Biden in office. This is how the New York Times headlines on this subject: “ US presidential election Biden fights to keep his candidacy alive ” and it goes further in an editorial entitled “ to serve the country, President Biden must leave the race ” at the White House. The New York Times describes Joe Biden as " a shadow of a leader ."
As for D. Trump, whom the American media note that he flew over the match , the comments largely focus on his ability to utter enormous lies with extraordinary seriousness, which is summed up well by Public Senate : " Donald's intervention Trump reflects the relationship with the truth that Republicans have in the United States. The former president added untruths and falsehoods to each response, without the slightest correction from the moderators who remained surprisingly passive throughout. the debate. ”
This situation of an 81-year-old President in office, candidate for his own succession which raises questions about his ability to govern and of a challenger , former President, surrounded and sometimes condemned by and in numerous legal cases, raises questions about the deep crisis which is shaking the world's leading capitalist power. Because beyond the form, what is at the center of the debate is the vital question for this imperialist power to ensure the conditions for maintaining its hegemony and its capacity to direct and dominate for the benefit of its monopolies.
Indeed, the American power which was unchallenged at the end of the Second World War and for several decades which followed, victorious in the Cold War which saw the disappearance of the USSR, is today contested by the emergence of new powers where capitalism is actively developing, particularly in Asia. These new powers within the imperialist system in turn intend to play a leading role in international institutions hitherto in the almost exclusive service of the United States and to give their monopoly champions the means to dominate the intensified competition between the large capitalist groups with their States around the world. It is these realities, within imperialism, which contribute to the development of international tensions and the wars which are developing.
The question posed to the American ruling class is the resolution of this equation against the backdrop of a degraded social situation. Trump or Biden? the question is therefore not really there; but how can we continue to ensure a hegemony that is crumbling while ensuring social peace linking American workers to the existential interests of capitalism?
The answer to this question is part of the logic of the development of capitalism on the international level, it is that of an increase in the violence of clashes between imperialist powers. The only way to prevent this deadly logic is class struggle to bring down the system that generates it, that is to say capitalism. The struggle for peace and the struggle for socialism are therefore very closely linked.