“Tough but fair”: “People will continue to die when she is president,” says Oskar Lafontaine about Harris | EUROtoday

He ended his report questioningly. “What will happen to this country after the election? Are the election results accepted by all sides? Will it remain peaceful? Or will the cracks in the foundation of this soon-to-be 250-year-old democracy become even deeper?”, Ingo Zamperoni mirrored on the finish of “Really Trump again, America?”, by which he highlighted the variety of the United States with visits to Kid Rock and Jürgen Klinsmann Chicago ‘Gayborhood’ and a Baptist church in Wisconsin.

Following the TV premiere of his journey, Zamperoni appeared on “hart aber fair” to reply the query “Harris or Trump: Will this election change everything?” In addition to the ARD presenter, Louis Klamroth welcomed the previous SPD chairman and present BSW politician Oskar Lafontaine, the FDP MEP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Rachel Tausenfreund from the German Council on Foreign Relations, the journalist Klaus Brink Bäumer and Peter Rough, former advisor to US President George W. Bush.

The election marketing campaign was so “crazy because of all the twists, developments, dramatic twists and surprises that it had in store,” stated Ingo Zamperoni, who spoke from Washington, DC, nearly slightly too enthusiastically. Once once more all monetary data have been damaged. On the eve of the presidential election there’s now “quite a bit of tension”. At the identical time, there’s a “certain sense of relief” that the election marketing campaign is “finally over”. It continues to be unsure who will emerge victorious from the race. It might presumably take weeks for the end result.

This can also be attributable to the truth that the Republican refuses to acknowledge election outcomes. It is “shocking how deeply this narrative of Donald Trump reaches Republican voters” and what number of reproduce it “as if fired from a pistol”. This is a “stress test” and a “huge problem for a democracy,” complained the Tagesthemen anchorman. Compared to the final election in 2020, he has the impression that the positions between the events are “even more hardened, even more tilted”. As a end result, Democrats and Republicans generally not discuss to one another.

Rough defined that he would really like a transparent end result in order that either side settle for the winner, there’s a “clean” swearing-in in January and cross-party politics grow to be doable sooner or later. “Clarity is very important.” But only a few folks within the group anticipated that. “There will be no clear result,” warned Klaus Brink Bäumer, however moderately the election might be “very, very, very close.” There are solely two election outcomes for Trump – “his victory or election fraud”. If the victory that his supporters believed was sure doesn’t happen, “there is of course a risk of riots.”

Fear is a “very bad advisor,” however it’s accompanied by “healthy political nervousness,” stated Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. The safety precautions in Washington confirmed that the worst was anticipated there. “That’s just the seed that is now sprouting.” Trump “doesn’t have all his cups in the cup,” reveals fascist traits and “doesn’t engage in a factual debate.” His performances had a “slapstick character” garnished with “ordinary platitudes” and “violent fantasies”. If she have been eligible to vote within the United States, she would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris.

Lafontaine appeared much less certain about whom he would help. Democracy, for instance, contains the “bloodless transfer of power,” which Trump doesn’t assure. In the Middle East battle, he would additionally stand much more clearly behind Israeli insurance policies and their “war crimes,” as the previous SPD chairman put it. At the identical time, he doesn’t depend himself as a part of “Team Harris”. The Democrats have been as soon as the social gathering of employees, right now they characterize the monetary business. With regard to Ukraine help, he warned: “People will continue to die if she is president.”

Lafontaine acted very headlessly when it got here to Joe Biden, whom Tausenfreund had described because the “last old transatlanticist”. He rejects the time period, in any case it “blowd our gas pipe away.” The US President himself informed this “in front of the whole world,” because the BSW politician believed he remembered. He would counter Trump’s calls for for greater NATO contributions: “I would say, first of all, pay your bills for blowing up the gas pipeline!” He would additionally current them with a invoice for the refugees from the United States’ wars.

The Germans needed to characterize their very own pursuits and have been not allowed to behave as “pathetic vassals”. “That’s what they call us in the USA,” Lafontaine claimed. In this context, he questioned the arms deliveries to Ukraine, a rustic that, in Strack-Zimmermann’s supposed opinion, “blew up our gas pipeline.” The FDP politician instantly countered: “Oh, I thought that was America. Now it’s Ukraine. Do we perhaps have one more in our kit?” But she too was sure that Europe must act extra independently sooner or later; “Europe’s payday begins tomorrow.”