Ɖ Gardịn vy on Doṇld Trump’s Aywa vicṭri: a wornñ v ẃt z at risc in YS ilex́nz
Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 16 January 2024
A cult v prṣnaḷti hz enśurd ɖt b’livrz r blîndd t ɖ mīnz imploid bî ɖ formr prezidnt t tec pǎr
Tyzde, 16 Jańri 2024
Bfr votrz in Aywa cict of ɖ YS preẓdnśl-ilex́n sîcl on Munde, Doṇld Trump śerd a bizar campenvidio on hiz Truʈ Sośl platform ɖt dclerd him t b God’z ćozn emiṣri on Rʈ, snt t dlivr pṛspeṛti t America. It sīmd unlîcli ɖt īvanjeliclz in a rṛl stet wd bai intu sć narssizm. Sadli, Mr Trump hz blîndd b’livrz t ɖ mīnz n fixt ɖer gêz on ɖ endz. Dspt biyñ ćarjd wɖ 91 feḷniz in for criminl cesz, h wún an unpresdntd mjoṛti v Rpublicn cōc̣s-gwrz.
Ɖ rest v ɖ Rpublicn ilectṛt dz’nt olwz folo Aywa’z līd. Ɖs, hvr, z a smōl cumḟt. In 2016, Mr Trump lost ǎt t Ted Cruz in ɖ stet bfr winñ hiz parti’z noṃneśn wɖ a mndeśs, resist, msoɉnistic campen ɖt incurijd vayḷns n dlt in ɖ poḷtics v prsnl insult. Hiz spel in ofis dd nt melo him. Hiz 2024 campen pict p ẃr hiz last wn endd – bî breznli atmtñ t yz hiz eḟts t oṿtrn ɖ 2020 ilex́n-rzult az a raliyñcrî.
It z an omiṇs portent ɖt h hd pswedd votrz, ispeṣ́li rlijs wnz, ɖt it wz betr t win wɖ vîs ɖn t lūz wɖ vrću. Aftr Aywa, Mr Trump hops ɖ mīdia wl ampḷfî ɖ mesij ɖt hiz cọliśn v s’port wɖn ɖ Rpublicn parti wl cruś ɖoz sīcñ t resk it fṛm hiz grip. T rīset ɖ convseśn wd nīd Mr Trump t lūz ɖ Ny Hampśr prîṃri – an unlîcli ǎtcm, az h mntenz an aṿrij dubl-dijit līd ovr hiz nirist rîvl, Nici Hêli.
Fr ɖ formr YS prezidnt, ɖr’z no sć ʈñ az bad pbliṣti. Freś fṛm hiz Aywa vicṭri, Mr Trump arîvd at a Manhatn cort hírñ ovr a $10m daṃjzclem sòt bî ɖ raitr I Jīn Caṛl fr dfemñ hr aftr ś akzd him v repñ hr nirli ʈri decedz ago. Mr Trump emz t yz hiz upcmñ criminl trîlz az oṗtyṇtiz t clem hedlînz n public atnśn. In laśñ ǎt at proṣktrz, jujz n Deṃcrats, Mr Trump wonts t lc stroñ – n mc hiz oponnts lc wìc. It z a batl v imij, nt v substns, t ssten a cult v prṣnaḷti.
F Mr Trump trnz ǎt ɖ Rpublicn-parti vot, h olso trnz ǎt hiz Deṃcratic opziśn. Ɖs ilectṛl riax́n sw Mr Trump lūz ɖ 2020 ilex́n. It léd ɖ Rpublicnz t d unixpctidli badli in ɖ 2022 midtrmz n dlivrd stroñ rzults fr Deṃcrats in speśl ilex́nz last yir. Post-Covid, ɖ YS icoṇmi hz rcuvrd in ɖ sns ɖt ɖ mjoṛti v Americnz r betr of fînanṣ́li nǎ ɖn ɖe wr bfr ɖ pandemic. Bt ɖ peṣmizm in cnsymr-sntimnt lingrz. Ɖt mt xplen ẃ poulz fînd votrz glum abt Jo Bîdn. Ɖr z sm gd nyz: Mr Bîdn z runñ nec n nec wɖ hiz prīdisesr in rīsnt srvez v votñ intnśn.
Americn dmocṛsi z unsrtn t svîv anɖr for yirz v Mr Trump in ofis. Mr Trump dd’nt criet ɖ hostiḷtiz faund in ɖ YS. H jst ruʈlisli xplôts ɖm fr hiz slfiś nīdz. Incrisñ poḷrîześn z a reṣpi fr p’liticl p’raḷsis az partiz bcm mor inṭrestd in stopñ ɖ uɖr sîd winñ ɖn in solvñ probḷmz. Deṃcrats r rît t worn ɖt 2024’z lîcli rīmać fr ɖ Ẃît Hǎs wl b a batl fr ɖ neśn’z soul. Ɖ cuṛnt prezidnt wonts t rstor ɖ old normz v stebl, sivl poḷtics. Mr Trump wonts t dstrô ɖm. Az ʈñz stand, ɖ stecs cd nt b hayr ɖs Nvmbr.
