When I was in school, I read a text in Chinese class, Mark Twain's campaign for governor, a satirical narrative of the party struggle between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the United States, the original decent Mark Twain, after preparing to run for governor of New York, was immediately fabricated by political opponents to fabricate various scandals, and finally changed from a fair politician to a perjury, a thief, a corpse robber, a drunkard, a fraudster, and a blackmail expert.
At that time, after reading this text, I thought that this was just an exaggerated writing technique of American writers, and how could there be such a low-limit partisan struggle in the world. However, it turns out that I am still too young, if Mark Twain had seen today's American party struggle, he would not have written this article at all, what "perjury, thief" and other crimes, it is simply that the political enemy showed mercy to his subordinates, and the former president of the United States, Trump, has been convicted of "participating in the rebellion". When a U.S. president rebelled against his own country during his term of office, Chinese didn't believe it, but many Americans did. If the party struggle of the Mark Twain era was absurd, then the current party struggle in the United States is synonymous with absurdity.
On December 19, the U.S. Supreme Court of Colorado, under Article 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, found that Trump's conduct before and after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, met the definition of insurrection, declared Donald Trump ineligible to serve in public office again, and ordered the secretary of state to exclude his name from the state's Republican presidential primary.
Although this is only a ruling passed by Colorado itself, it does not prevent Trump from making history again and becoming the first person in American history to be disqualified from running for president. It is said that the United States has fair justice, and now it seems that what is said is true, as long as someone wants to rectify you, no matter how ridiculous the reason is, you can be convicted in a grand manner, whether you are a billionaire or a former president, there is always a law that can restrain you. What does it mean to be fair in the absolute sense? Trump's experience fully illustrates this point, even if you have someone in Congress, it will not prevent your political opponents from messing with you.
In response to Colorado's ruling, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the ruling was "nothing more than an undisguised partisan attack." Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called the court's ruling a "real assault on democracy." Trump's campaign also expressed strong condemnation, claiming that the plan represented the dodgy Joe Biden would interfere in the election.
In the past, the Republican Party always accused China and Russia of being undemocratic and interfering in US elections, but now the same hat has been put on the head of the Democratic Party, and it seems that the Democratic Party has become one of the Republican Party's number one enemies on an equal footing with China and Russia. It is said that the United States is fiercely contested, and it seems that it really deserves its name, and even the former president can participate in the rebellion, and it is not impossible for Trump to be prosecuted as a Russian spy next year.
Of course, the Republican Party is not good at stubble, and if you Democrats dare to characterize my candidate as a "rebel", I can also label your president as corrupt. On December 15, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve an impeachment inquiry initiated by Republicans against President Joe Biden, including whether Biden used relevant policies to unduly benefit from foreign business transactions with his son Hunter Biden and other family members. And the Republican Party also used its power to obtain more than 36,000 pages of bank records, 2,000 pages of Treasury reports on suspicious activity, and testimony from two of Hunter's business associates, seven federal agents, and others, in order to completely convict Biden of corruption.
It can be said that today's party struggle in the United States has become almost completely unscrupulous, and in addition to the use of force, all the dirty tricks that both sides can use have been used. The consequence of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party's tearing face is that today's American society is highly torn, the left and right wings are hostile to each other, the red necks are hostile to Wall Street, and there is hardly anything in American society that can reach a consensus, from gender issues to border walls. In the United States, where former presidents can "rebel", no one can be "politically clean", everyone sprays each other, and in the end everyone becomes the "enemy of the United States" in the mouth of political opponents, and everyone is anti-American.
And it's only the warm-up stage for the 2024 U.S. election, Trump becoming an "insurgency" is just an appetizer, and the Republicans and Democrats may stage more exciting party battles for the world next year. Once again, the Democrats have set a new floor in the party race, and Trump will one day shout a new slogan: Let's make another Great America! Or the Republican Party could follow Chiang Kai-shek's trick and have the Republican state governments outlaw the Democratic Party and outlaw the local Democratic Party.
In short, in the 2024 US election, anything is possible!