The
political game becomes more complicated
As Hillary Clinton can't hide her anxiety to send the
right signals to the US establishment, that she is absolutely
faithful to her mission, totally aligned with the neocon/neoliberal
agenda, Donald Trump probably starts thinking to "smoothen"
his sharp rhetoric. It seems that the establishment starts sending
signals to him, towards this direction.
From
china.org
:
While his
bombastic rhetoric helped him win the Republican primaries,
analysts said time is running out for U.S. Republican nominee
Donald Trump to start acting more "presidential" in
order to win the presidential race.
[...]
Julian
Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton
University, told Xinhua that it's not too late for the polls to
change. "That said, the data is pretty devastating and the
trajectory is moving the wrong way for him," Zelizer
said.
Dan
Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the
Presidency and Congress, told Xinhua that at this point Trump
would have to stop being Trump and "demonstrate some level
of statesmanship."
"The
telepromptered speech in Detroit was supposed to be the beginning
of that process - a reset," he said, referring to Trump's
speech on the U.S. economy early last week, in which he refrained
from making any rash comments and showed a more presidential side
of himself. But the comments that Trump made later in speeches at
the subsequent campaign rallies completely negated that. Trump
indirectly called on gun advocates to stop Clinton, and even
dubbed President Obama and Clinton as co-founders of IS.
Indeed, Trump's original appeal was
that he'd "tell it like it is" to the political elite,
and that carried enough of a populist electorate through the
Republican Party primaries. "That core group of supporters
will stay with him and continue to see him standing up to the
status quo. However, for much of the electorate, Trump's 'telling
it like it is' is seen as a dangerous, temperamental,
thin-skinned, and combative personality that is unfit for the
White House," Mahaffee said.
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The
establishment got rid of the heavy headache called Bernie Sanders,
yet his movement remains strong and it seems that most of his
supporters are completely determined not to support Hillary.
Normally, these progressive voters, which include a significant part
of the American youth, would not compromise to participate in another
bi-partisan process, but this time they have a third choice.
Therefore,
the new headache of the establishment is called Jill Stein. The
leader of the Green Party is clearly an unknown factor which probably
makes the establishment mechanisms even more nervous and puzzled on
how to handle her. It is probably the first time in the American
political process that a third party comes with a remarkable momentum
which can't be clearly measured, at least for now.
What brings
further anxiety to the establishment, is the probability that Stein
will manage to attract more progressive voters from the big tank of
US citizens who have chosen not to participate in the political
process so far. This may change balance to an unknown level against
the establishment's number one candidate, Hillary Clinton.
As various
scandals against Hillary are still coming on surface, the
establishment realizes that she has reached her limits and it's more
probable that she will lose voters rather than gain new ones.
So, inside
this completely uncertain situation, it is natural that the
establishment should start preparing its best alternative, Donald
Trump. The saturated base of the Republican populist voters is not
enough for the presidency. This explains the warnings of the pundits
to Trump, to "regulate" his attitude and rhetoric. With the
advantage of "clean past" in the political field compared
to "dirty" Clintons, he could attract more Right Wing
moderate voters.
Hillary is
still the first priority, but time is running out and the
establishment must be prepared to bring its reserve to power if ...
"things get out of control".
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