Who stops coup leader Trump?

When the flame of the longest-lasting democracy on the planet trembles and threatens to go out, the whole world goes into a tailspin. When a president elected at the polls - we should now question how he managed to do so - tries to perpetuate the power that the polls have taken away from him, we are simply dealing with a dictator who has attempted a coup d'état by hijacking the will of the people. 

Just as the head of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, ended his speech, he pointed out that "the president who questioned the election results has been supported in his legal claims, but no flaw in the system has been demonstrated", When there were no more dikes left to support Trump's pilgrimage thesis that the elections were fraudulent, when Vice President Pence left in writing that he would not play Trump's game, just then the mob that the president had previously inflamed in a crazy speech, entered the sancta sanctorum of American democracy and swept it away.

At that time, popular sovereignty was hijacked. The state-by-state verdict in favour of Biden was to be read and accepted. The assault suspended him, leaving the election certificate in abeyance. As in that vote in the Spanish Congress of Deputies, which was interrupted by an armed attack. There were also weapons, bombs, pushing and shoving, broken windows, assaults on offices, and even deaths... provoked by the crazy mob that the president himself had stirred up minutes earlier from the gardens of the White House.

For a few hours - with the police overwhelmed - and a president who decided not to act against the assailants, democracy had been hibernated in the country that most boasts of living it and defending it as a political system. It was difficult to understand how the country with the toughest police and largest army could let itself be taken away from the control of democratic space by its chambers. I fondly remember my father's astonished comments in a hearing at the Capitol in 1980, incredulous to be able to attend a session of the House of Representatives live or to walk inside the White House and feel what freedom and democracy was in action. With few controls, when we lived here kidnapped by the threatened terrorists. From those trusts, to these delusions.

Although the image of violence on Capitol Hill was unprecedented, there were many who expected any insolent action, of any kind, from Trump and his followers to try to perpetuate themselves behind the walls of the White House. He preached it all the time, inciting his own people, denying the election result, lying again and again about his great victory and the massive fraud. Today, in view of what has been seen, one could question how this magnate with a dubious career, who was involved in shady deals in the real estate world and in gambling casinos, came to assault the Republican Party and take up the candidacy and win an election in which everyone thought he was a loser. The great questioner of the current results perhaps did not play fair either in the campaign that led him to the most powerful position on earth.

He has exercised the presidency in a continuously questioned manner, forcing the basis of democracy in his country, and acting in an authoritarian manner, with an inflamed verb, preaching hatred in politics, with vexatious statements against citizens and nations, and acting with a scorched earth system in the background and in the forms. 

For those of us who did not experience the rise and rise of Nazism to power, we have now been able to look in the rearview mirror at this transformation of Trump into a Hitler, driving his followers mad and making the Democrats vomit with fear. He led the world into disaster, war, genocide and extreme pain. He has succeeded in destroying the democratic spirit of the nation that has long practised freedom under the mantle of the constitution.

When an abuser of power rises to the top, he ties himself to the flag of a country. Who puts the bell on him, who stops him, how can he be stopped? The American Republican Party now has to make an analysis of how and why it has allowed its democratic and constitutionalist line to be snatched away by an unscrupulous businessman with no political tradition and no attachment to the law. Some congressmen and senators have stood by the president who lied and undermined legality until this moment of infamy that has left everyone carefree. Undoubtedly, the great responsibility of the democratic future in America goes first of all to the reaction of the Republican Party, which is looking at the precipice of having become the party of support for a fascist.

If the streets of Washington do not catch fire again or if President-elect Biden's inauguration on the 20th does not fail - because of some situation that nobody wants to foresee - we will finally see Trump outside the White House at the end of the month, as is mandatory after being defeated at the polls But will he be allowed to remain active in American politics, will he be arrested, will he be tried for inciting this assault on Congress and paralysing the will of the people?, and will a country's democratic guarantees really work to prevent the corrupt and dictators from having a chance?

With democracy trembling in America, the earthquake of anguish for freedom is and will be felt by all states. It is time to reverse the hateful policies of the populists, left and right. It is time to question the existence of neo-Nazi and neo-communist parties in the fair play of democracies.

Who would have thought that Maduro and an American president would play in the same league? There we have them, just as they are. The extremes touch each other, says the proverb. What should not be touched is the democracy put in danger by the abusers of power. The United States must continue to set the compass for democratic hope, constitutional law and citizen's freedom. A beacon for freedom and democracy, which is now shaking and leaving its own and others unprotected. Biden and the whole country will have to row hard to shake off the tremor that these last four years and yesterday in particular have put into our bodies.