Trump's defeat was a historic one
Comments on socialistresistance.org2020sA comment by Alan in the thread under “Why the Democrats have won one battle against Trump but can't win the war” on socialistresistance.org.
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Editor's note. Posted under Susan Pashkoff's article “Why the Democrats have won one battle against Trump but can't win the war” (November 2020), which presented the election as a partial victory.
This article underestimates the global impact of Tump’s defeat, in my view. True that this is “not the end of the far right in the US” and that “he got a big vote” and that racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia remain problems in the US. But to present the election outcome a just a “partial victory” for Biden is a big underestimation. It was in fact a huge, historically significant, defeat of Trump and a set-back for hard-right forces globally. Trump was the undisputed leader of the far-right, globally. He was climate sceptic in chief globally – and the biggest single threat to the planet. His defeat is a big plus for COP 26 in Glasgow next year. Instead of Trump boasting from afar that he had pulled the US out of Paris, Biden, with all his weaknesses, will be in Glasgow taking the US back in. Imagine the election had gone the other way!