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Even if this trial was far less important than the others he currently faces, the fact that Donald Trump was found guilty of all charges in the hush-money trial should be good news, not just for his opponents or the USA, but for the world. But, on top of the fact that a convicted felon may still be president of the USA, and that will remain the case even if he’ll end up in prison, the sad state of affairs is that this may actually improve his chances. And he and his team are definitely masters at spinning pretty much any story in their favor and fooling those who can be fooled in such a manner, so now every effort must be made to prevent that from happening. For one, I’d really like to see him sentenced to community service, but that may offer him an even better campaign platform, so any sentence will need to be weighed very carefully against that possibility.
Now, when I’m talking about his chances, I’m obviously not referring to how his actual supporters see him, as those don’t respond to reason and will most likely only strengthen their resolve as a result of this outcome, but mainly to the people who are looking for a way to show their opposition towards either Biden and/or the Democrats, or “the system” or “the establishment”. And there are many, many very good reasons to hold such a stance, most of which can’t be explained away, and Trump paints himself as the most powerful figure who embodies that opposition, leading to what may not even be a “lesser evil” scenario, but an “enemy of my enemy” one, which is even harder to fight against.
Of course, it wouldn’t be that hard to fight against such a stance if the system would change and actually work for the people and the planet, if the Democrats wouldn’t share a significant part of the blame for why it doesn’t, and to some extent even if they’d have a presidential candidate that people wouldn’t have such very good reasons to be concerned about. However, since that’s not happening and the world remains in that desperate state of having to put every effort into just struggling to prevent the mountain from collapsing and burying everyone, as a writer from here put it once, what must be done is to show that Trump is very much part of the system, that he has made and will continue to make full use of it for his own benefit and at the expense of everyone else, and that he’s actually the bigger enemy, regardless of how one looks at things. But the even harder part is that this must be done in a manner which won’t make it look like it’s the system that pulls out all the stops in order to fight him, but instead show that it’s the reasonable people who do so, along with those who care for values that they share with those whom they try to persuade.
All of that is much easier said than done, and it doesn’t even address those who either just want to see the world burn or have given up hope and ended up deciding that making things as bad as possible will at least mean that there might be a chance for them to get better after that. But something must be done, and it must be done right and right away, because Trump and his staff are definitely wasting no time. And, regardless of how bad things are in the world right now, how much the current leadership of the USA is to blame for that, and how much worse they’re likely to get without a drastic change over there, this particular change must be prevented at all costs… Not that it’ll really be a change, seeing as Trump held that office before and we have seen the damage that he was capable of, and that was when he was much less vindictive, determined, brash and willing to go to any lengths to achieve his goals than he is now.