Following the events of January 6 in Washington, the positions of US President Donald Trump have become so weak that only the lazy ones can't be bothered to kick the injured wolf. Trump opponents use this opportunity with intoxicating enthusiasm. They can be understood because politics is not a greenhouse of tolerance and empathy, where enthusiasts of "forgiveness and turning the other cheek" gather. Rather, politics is a jungle where the throat is quickly ripped out to anyone who has shown weakness and stumbled. To paraphrase the title of the Oscar-winning Coen brothers' film - no place in politics for kind men.
In order to permanently exclude Trump from the game, he must be destroyed not only politically but also legally. To this end, Democrats are striking the iron while it's hot. The presidential impeachment procedure was launched as soon as possible, and on 13 January the US House of Representatives passed a resolution accusing Trump of "incitement of insurrection". These allegations have yet to be investigated by the Senate, which once rejected an impeachment resolution. The inquiry procedure and the vote in the Senate will take place after the inauguration of the new US President Joe Biden, and the main purpose of this impeachment is to deprive Trump of even theoretical opportunities to return to the US political scene.
Although Trump's personal Twitter account has been blocked forever, he has published a video speech on the official White House Twitter account, in which he condemned the attack on the Capitol in an unusually sharp tone.
"Violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country and no place in our movement. [...] We have seen too many riots, too many mobs, too many acts of intimidation and destruction. It must stop. [...] Whether you are on the right or on the left, a Democrat or a Republican, there is never a justification for violence, no excuses, no exceptions. America is a nation of laws. Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice."
Trump, feeling that he has gone too far, is now trying to step back, but his complacent speeches can no longer calm any of Trump's haters. Well-known Latvian journalist Kārlis Streips has published an article in la.lv, in which he says, among other things: "I personally think that now is the time to ban the Republican Party as a class, because it has been severely damaged under the influence of Donald Trump."
If anyone thinks that Streips is a radical who expresses extreme and anti-democratic views, then it must be said that Streips is just a moderate antitrumpist. In the new America of the 21st century, calls to ban, prevent, exclude, boycott are commonplace. The day after Capitol riots Randall Lane, a content editor of Forbes magazine, published an article calling for the non-hiring of any of Trump's team: "Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie." Steve Forbes, the head of Forbes' media group, condemned the statement, pointing to a resemblance to the McCarthy era in the 1950s.
However, such and similar denunciations are published daily. The Internet is full of complaints about what someone has done (or did once many years ago) or said wrong, and therefore they must be persecuted first on social networks and then expelled from society. One can only hope that what is happening in the United States will soon be mentioned with the same shame as the witch-hunting during the aforementioned period of McCarthyism. Even then, all the Streips and Lanes of that time sought out communists everywhere and were convinced that everything with the slightest shade of communism should be banned. We are now on the other side of the mirror of this process, but what is happening does not get any less disgusting.
There is no doubt that, regardless of the vote in the Senate, efforts to destroy Trump will continue. He will be subject to civil lawsuits and prosecutions. In any case, after leaving the White House, his days won't be easy. You might ask - why does part of the US hate him so much? It is difficult to deny that he is a shameless peacock, a narcissus, with an emphatic disregard for the facts and the knowledge accumulated by mankind. But he is being beaten and receives retribution not only for his nasty nature. He is forced to pay for the "humiliation" and "suffering" he inflicted on the US political class. He is forced to pay for daring to question the "correct" order of things of today's US ideologues.
Trump is as foreign to today's political class as a politician who supports communism would have been in America seventy years ago. Trump demonstratively ignored the rules of this setting. According to the "rules", he had to withdraw from the game already during the Republican pre-election competition, losing to Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and other people who are indigenous of the political class. But Trump, breaking all the canons of the setting, was up to the presidential nomination, and to everyone's surprise (including the Republican Party leadership), won the election over the political class favorite Hillary Clinton. Uninvited, he broke into the foreign setting and grabbed the jackpot there. Disrupted the usual order. He was not and will not be forgiven for such shamelessness.
Unfortunately, Trump's move has already had bad consequences. We do not even want to imagine what wonders of left-wing extremism we will see in the coming years, when the iron broom will be used to cleanse even the outermost corners of politics from the slightest remnants of trumpism. One can only hope that these "wonders" will have the smallest possible impact on the world outside the United States.