Donald Trump
The president criticized two senators, and the third doubted the competence of Trump
WASHINGTON - The split between President Donald Trump and his own
party once again deepened when Trump publicly criticized two Republican
senators, and another senator from his party questioned the balance and
competence of the president.
The objects of criticism of the president this time were Senators Lindsey Graham from South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
Graham, who ran for presidency in the past, accused Trump of inciting
social tension with his comments about racial protests in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
"Advertising seeker Lindsay Graham falsely stated that I said there is
a moral equivalence between the KKK, neo-Nazis and white nationalists,"
Trump wrote in his Twitter account, calling it a "disgusting lie."
Flake, who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, aroused the
president's anger by writing in his new book that the Republicans,
succumbing to the tramp's "policy of malice," betrayed their principles.
Trump in Twitter actually supported Flake's opponent in the primaries
of 2018, saying that the current senator has "weak positions on issues
of borders and crime" and he does not do any good in the Senate.
According to some, tweets and recent statements by Trump eloquently
demonstrate the state of relations between the president and the
Republican Party, founded in 1854.
Most notably, Trump is increasingly isolated from the leaders of Congress, where both chambers are controlled by Republicans.
Speaking on Thursday at the Chattanooga business club in his native
state of Tennessee, Republican senator Bob Corker called for "radical
changes" in the White House to avoid "big trouble."
"The president has not yet been able to demonstrate either the poise
or the competence that he needs to show in order to succeed," Corker
said.
None of the Republican congressmen spoke on television in defense of Trump's reaction to racial riots.
"The split between the president and the Republican Party is not like
any example I know of in American history," said Adjunct Professor of
the University of Pepperdine Ted McAllister.
According
to the historian, one of the first US presidents John Adams, as well as
his son, President John Quincy Adams, "faced serious challenges from
their parties that prevented them from achieving great results in
anything," and President Andrew Johnson There was a similar experience with the Congress during the Reconstruction, but "this parallel is not too strong."
McAllister, who often lectures on conservatism in the US, believes
that Trump brought power to people who wanted an outsider, but who had
no choice among candidates from third parties.
"The
Republican Party is still run by those who believe in the old ideology
of the 1980s, and whose own interests are related to the institutional
matrix, politics and political structure that emerged during this new
era of globalization," the historian notes. - The Republican Party at the moment is not able to move away from
this connection, so that, due to its peculiarities, it is arranged in
such a way that it can not but reject the rebel. "
Some
political observers are convinced that Trump can not and will not
change, and this can lead to serious consequences for him and the party.
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