Protests before the Supreme Court of the United States, rejecting the ruling that limits the right to abortion. Photo: AP
In case anyone had any doubts, Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency wasn’t just an incident in U.S. history that was overcome with Joe Biden’s triumph: the traces of the tycoon’s controversial presidency run deep and will last across the country for a long time. generations.
The sentence of the Supreme Court this Friday, which abrogated the right to abortion sanctioned for almost half a century, is just one example.
Trump celebrated the decision: “The greatest triumph of life in a generation,” he said. And he explained that these victories happened because he did “everything he promised, including the appointment of three respected and strong constitutionalists,” he added.
When in the 2016 campaign this correspondent traveled around the country interviewing Americans on the streets, she had already noticed a phenomenon that at first glance seemed incomprehensible. Deeply conservative and religious familiesthose who go to mass twice a week and usually carry the Bible in the glove compartment of their truck voted for the orange-haired tycoon.
They voted for that lord of New York (considered by the religious the capital of sin); that he had been divorced three times; that he was a playboy who frequented the discos where he met his third wife; who had reports of sexual harassment; that he prided himself on grabbing women by their private parts.
When asked about this contradiction, they replied that they understood the candidate’s weaknesses, but that they were willing to swallow that frog in search of what they called “a greater good”: to prevent the country from losing the “religious and conservative values” that they saw the administration of Barack Obama, the first black president in history, at risk.
The most conservative sectors of the country are threatened by the advance of secularism, women, immigrants, African Americans, LGTBQ communities, environmentalists, politically correct. They fear them, of course, because They take away the traditional power of the white man, Christian and Anglo-Saxon.
Former President Donald Trump has secured a conservative majority in the US Supreme Court. Photo: BLOOMBERG
Conservatives understand that the preservation of the “greater good” should be entrusted to the Supreme Court, guardian of “family values”, because its seal is important and lasting.
And Trump had that clear mandate because there were possible vacancies in the highest court, which then had a liberal majority, and he had to take advantage of it to stop it.
Twist in the High Court
And he did it for revenge. In his four years in the White House, he overturned the court’s formation because he appointed three ultra-conservative judges to replace two deceased and one resigned. From his hand came Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett and, being in their 50s and the position is for lifehis seal will remain with the Court for decades.
The court went on the offensive in highly controversial cases fundamental to more conservative Americans such as the use of weapons and abortion.
Pro-abortion protesters this Friday in Washington, in front of the US Supreme Court. Photo: BLOOMBERG
The court approved the carrying of guns in public on Wednesday as the debate over applying restrictions to stop the killings is growing. A strong signal.
The white and rural interior, particularly the men, celebrated this decision which ratified the revered Second Amendment. The sentence, on the other hand, was repudiated in the big liberal cities.
The Court asks for more
With the overturning Roe vs. Wade, the court messed with another great liberal symbol. Demolished years of struggle and feminism. Undoubtedly, the most vulnerable sectors, pregnant African Americans and Latinas, who do not have access to clinics or move to another state to have an abortion, will be harmed. Mortality from clandestine abortions will increase, experts predict.
But the Court asks for more: decisions on very sensitive issues such as the separation of the Church from the state, climate change and migration are still pending.
“These great victories show that even though the radical left is doing everything in its power to destroy our country, its rights are protected, the country is defended and there is still hope of saving America,” he said. Trump warned, he has not yet said whether he will run for the 2024 presidential election.
Regardless of whether he risks a second term, this court and its decisive decisions have undoubtedly been his main legacy.
Washington, correspondent
CB
Paola Lugone
Source: Clarin
