by A.D. Nachalo
As the profit margin on Donald Trump’s wounded ear proves quite high in terms of campaign strength, he further advances toward office by being made the official Republican nominee for president. Trump’s selection was already an accepted fact before the Republican National Convention held Monday, and with it came his selection of his vice president: JD Vance, a Republican Senator for Ohio.
Ohio had been an important swing state in the elections until 2020. From 1964 to 2020, whichever way Ohio voted settled the presidential election. In the last election, Ohio voted Republican by a large margin, and it appears Trump’s choice of Vance will help that remain the case this year. Vance will further consolidate the faction of the Republican Party less favorable to Trump as he has in the past. He will also secure support from those most favorable to the military, having served as a Marine in the imperialist war of aggression against the people of Iraq.
Vance, a multi-millionaire with ties to tech capitalists in Silicon Valley, entered the political scene in 2022 with the support of tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Prior to formally entering politics, Vance had been highly critical of Trump, suggesting that he could be “America’s Hitler.” Since his race for senate, he reversed his positions and has branded himself as the millennial face of Trump, now saying that he would not have certified the 2020 election results.
The ultra-reactionary capitalist Trump continues winning on the back of the attempt on his life, not only in the convention but in court as well. A Federal Judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case, which coincided with the convention. Since the shooting, numerous big capitalists like Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, have come out to endorse the former president as his class rallies increasingly around him. Musk has promised to donate $45 million a month to Trump’s campaign.
A number of high-ranking Republicans—including Vance—have attributed the cause of Saturday’s shooting to Democratic Party rhetoric despite lacking evidence for the shooter’s motive. The Democrats have followed suit in an act of political self-flagellation. President Biden announced that he would postpone his visit to Austin scheduled for this Monday and instead issued a call for rhetoric to “cool it down.” The President insisted that politics must be an “arena for political debate” and not a “killing field.” There are over 186,000 victims in Palestine from the politics of Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the US imperialist ruling class.
Even though President Biden did not arrive in Austin, about 50 demonstrators still gathered to condemn his role in the genocide of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Zionist oppressor. They promised to come back and protest him again, if he ever shows up.
