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The well-known political axiom says that Americans, like Europeans, usually work with winners and rulers, not with the opposition.
Anyone who remembers how Sali Berisha's famous Speech began (today there is talk of a Speech No. 2 anti-Berisha), recalls how the former prime minister spoke to his people in cinema halls, regarding the rejection of homosexuals, love for God and "conservative values". Berisha received a lot of applause at the time with these theses, which had nothing to do with returning to power but only because they excited the crowds who found similarities with the nonsense that Donald Trump spouted every day in the USA. Joe Biden was still in the White House and Berisha could not openly oppose the American administration, including Secretary Blinken, who had signed for his non grata status.
Biden and Blinken left last November and Berisha exploded in a tsunami of attacks, curses and insults of the most folkloric kind against them. As he knows how to curse. In parallel with the curses against the departing Democrats, Berisha began to build a bust of Donald Trump in the middle of the courtyard of the DP headquarters. An imaginary monument that would symbolize an alliance, a friendship and a future cooperation with Donald Trump, which none of Berisha's closest people were able to describe concretely. And when this stagnation and fog was sold as a secret negotiation that would take the Doctor to the USA in the middle of the elections at the invitation of the Republicans, many shrugged their shoulders in anticipation of the opposition surprise.
Today we know that none of Berisha's surprise scenarios with the Americans came true. Even the friendship with Trump did not ignite, although the money flowed freely. The former Prime Minister continues to remain persona non grata with Blinken's firm, which Rubio has not yet canceled, the "new sheriff in town" Lacivita took the honorarium and left the DP where it was in opposition, the firm "Continental Strategy" did not produce the expected access to the administration and the US President despite being paid a full 6 million dollars. Even this imaginary offensive against the Biden administration and for the return of the DP to power could not even produce the dismissal of the former ambassador in Tirana, Yuri Kim, who continues to be part of the State Department!
The well-known political axiom says that Americans, like Europeans, usually work with winners and rulers, not with the opposition. Electoral dreams of an election-day coup ordered by Washington once again turned out to be mere lost illusions, according to the title of Balzac's famous novel.
The Albanian Trumpism of May 11 was a summer rain that did not wet anyone, an empty rhetoric and unfounded in any context of truth, but only in naive ideological analogies and a lot of money poured in the hope that lobbies and allies close to the Trump administration would influence Rama to leave power and Berisha to clean up his American record.
What remains today from the Democratic Party's electoral Trumpism in the May 11 elections is a story without beginning or end, a personal improvisation by Berisha to solve his own problem, even though he did so by creating an empty illusion among his followers who were expecting the rotation of power and the departure of Edi Rama.
Lacivita left, Susie Wilks' daughter's firm took the money but saw no results, while Trump's son-in-law and his wife Ivanka don't miss an opportunity to talk about their project in Sazan and post photos on the sea in Vlora. Everything fell apart, even the theorem of the US's lack of congratulations for the winners of the elections in Albania fell apart.
The DP and its voters had the opportunity to learn once again, at the bitter price of defeat, that the victory of political power does not come without real and serious investment in the major political project. Which is not that of seasonal paid weddings with America or Europe, but is the real and tangible rotation of a worn-out elite with Berisha at the helm, which has clung to parliamentary mandates, taking the present and future of the entire party hostage.
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