Some call for rethink by Democrats and say Europe must step up preparations for another Trump term
Western politicians, already drowning in multiple crises of their own, were left shell-shocked and aghast at Joe Biden’s meandering performance in, aware that a second Trump term had drawn that much nearer – with all that this implies for the rise of populism in Europe, the future of Nato, and for Ukraine and the Middle East.came from across the mainstream political spectrum, interspersed with the odd call for the bloc to prepare even more intensively for a Trump second coming.
Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, the director of the Americas programme at the Chatham House thinktank, who is deeply immersed in Democratic politics, struggled to make a case for Biden’s defence, even though she said she regarded his policy performance as strong. In a tweet she was more blunt, saying: “America and Americans are best when they see a problem, seize on it, find a solution. Make it happen.”
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, of Germany’s liberal FDP, told the Rheinische Post: “The fact that a man like Trump could become president again because the Democrats are unable to put up a strong candidate against him would be a historic tragedy that the whole world would feel.” Ukraine’s foreign ministry gave no response to Trump’s ominous remarks during the debate that Kyiv had taken too much military aid from the US, and his reference to Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a “salesman”.
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