A Dark day for US
There was a total chaos, lawmakers were frightened and running for their life. US Capitol hill was occupied by a protesting mob against democratic transition of President elect Joe Biden. This event has been termed as the darkest day in the US history, which is oldest and strongest democracy of the world.
One question which keeps coming into my mind that was it predictable? I think yes. Because signals for this crisis was given by Mr. Trump himself even before elections. He declared that even if he is going to lose elections then also he will not concede his defeat and will challenge the elections in the court. And indeed he did exactly the same, but when nothing came out of it, he started giving inflammable speeches in public which was a true signal that this transition is not going to be smooth.
A dark of democracy- because this is not how democracy works. A democracy is run by people’s mandate which is reflected in election and that is exactly why Election commissions are called one of the main pillar of democracy. When Mr. Trump denied to concede, this was not a sign of democracy because this is not how democracy works, this is how dictatorship works. When you are winning then everything is alright but the moment you start losing then electoral votes are fraud. This is a clear symbol of tyranny and that too in the most prestigious and strongest country of the world.
This elections were a total reflection of growing divergence of ideologies in the US. One of the main factor of this divergence is whites vs blacks. Black people strongly supported Mr. Biden and Mrs. Kamala Harris. Especially after protests “Black Lives Matter” and how current president handled it, this became a clear case that he was losing opinion of black population which was already bleak. Another reason of divergence was immigration issue. US remains always a lucrative place for most of the people for jobs and higher education, companies based in US like Google, Apple etc. have been benefited a lot by the talent which was brought by H-1B visa and that too at a very affordable cost. But when Mr. Trump became president and with his call for “Make America Great Again”, he started attacking immigrants for curbing jobs of native Americans and in this process he restricted their entries by restricting H-1B visa regime. But in this whole process he forgot that immigrants were the major reason why America became great at the very first place then how it was possible to make America great again without them?
Another debate of this election was a type of economy and world leadership, a newly elected president would provide. A section of population wanted more liberalism like going back into Paris deal, lessening sanctions on Iran, relaxing trade tensions, on the other hand a section was influenced by hyper nationalism, in which people wanted measures like trade war where they would curb unrestricted imports, not going into Climate change because it was a drain of money and nothing else for them. Hyper nationalism was associated with the refuted claims which Mr. Trump usually making during his presidential terms like He refused to acclaim that there is any climate change, he ignored the benefits of imports and immigrants to USA and finally he even refused to give recognition to novel coronavirus, which created massive havoc in America itself. There was not even a single scientific or analytical base to all these claims yet people supported them overwhelmingly not because they were not aware but because it wanted situations to be like that. And this is not something which is very unique to the USA, it is happening all over the world even in India too. Hyper nationalist leaders give a vision to the people which is having no significance at the ground level to lure people and for this they make baseless claims and allegations. All this do not result into making impossibility a possibility but gives rise to polarisation and hatred into society which is clearly happening all over the world for which USA is a no exception.
Mob which entered into US capitol hill or which termed elections as a fraud was not the ones who did not know the truth but they were the ones who did not want to accede to the truth. They wanted USA to be in a shape which Mr. Trump showed them, whether it was possible or beneficiary, does not matter. Remember this is just a start, because this growing divergence in ideology and hyper nationalism is a one way traffic and that is why Trump is gone but Trumpism will stay.