Liz Truss and Donald Trump have much more in common than the first three letters of his last name.

Despite their outsider status, both men enjoyed prolific political careers, reaching the pinnacle of their careers as Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States.

In both cases, their reigns ended in ways that angered their opponents and many in their own conservative and Republican circles.Her reckless policies forced the economy into chaos truss He stepped down after just 49 days in No. 10 Downing Street.

trump card lost 2020 electionrefusing to accept his defeat and praising the mob who attacked the capitol Trying to keep him in the White House.

Many thought they were doomed forever. But like those who scoffed at their ambition early in their careers, the naysayers were wrong again. Both men have been put on probation and continue to be respected as a force in their respective parties.

Trump currently narrowly defeats Joe Biden to win re-election on November 5, and Truss said this week: “I definitely have unfinished business. Absolutely.”

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book promotion

On Monday, she will return to Washington, D.C., to speak at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, to promote her memoir, “Ten Years to Save the West.”.

Much of the book could more accurately be described as Forty-nine Days Without a Job, Yet Truss is determined to place her personal fate within the context of a broader global ideological struggle. Her final chapter lists “important lessons we can learn so that we can win.”

These include “We must dismantle the left-wing state,” “We must restore democratic accountability,” and “Conservatism must win throughout the free world, especially in the United States of America.”

Liz Truss has always been a shapeshifter. Born into a family of left-wing academics, she was first heard calling for the abolition of the monarchy 30 years ago as a young Liberal Democrat. Before becoming a hard Brexiteer, she supported Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.

Right-wing populist transformation

Tim Bell, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London and author of “The Conservative Party After Brexit,” said her recent comeback tour “confirms her transformation into a radical right-wing populist”.

Like Trump, Truss rejects “extreme environmentalist dogma and wokeism.” Her view of a failed British state “captured by left-wing ideas” is consistent with Trump’s view of “American carnage”, unless he is about making America great again.

Of course, Truss supports Trump over Biden in the upcoming election. It is unusual for a former British political leader to be so blatantly supportive of a foreign election.

“I think our opponents fear a Trump presidency more than they fear a Democratic administration,” she said. “I believe we need a strong America… a safer world [when Trump was president]”.

By “opponents,” Truss refers to “the totalitarian regimes of China, Iran, and Russia.” Her unwavering aggressive stance may be what separates her most from Trump and some of his fellow Republican cheerleaders. He openly admires the dictator while encouraging his followers to block Russian aid to Ukraine.

“Prime Minister Truss”

Still, her words resonated with the Heritage Foundation’s ruthless warriors, who treated her with the respect she craved.

Hailed as an American-style “Prime Minister Truss”, her hosts described her as “one of the few British politicians who really understands the direction of America and the conservative movement in the United States”.

The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Freedom Center previously invited her to deliver its annual keynote address in February.

Indeed, Truss’s knowledge of the real Mrs Thatcher appears to have been limited to a few cosplay photos scrounged from her vanity case when she was foreign secretary, wearing a vest as a fashion accessory.

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Truss is weird, but so is Trump. One trait she shares with the former president is a determination not to look ridiculous. Both men live in a post-truth world, where their words and actions take precedence over objective facts.

never blame

If things go wrong, they are never blamed. Others—especially the “deep state” bureaucracy—conspired against them.

In her memoir, Truss said that when she was prime minister, she did not understand important aspects of the national economy, such as the fragility of the LDI pension fund. She blamed the Bank of England for not telling her.

She claims the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Treasury worked against her despite not allowing the OBR to review her mini-budget early and sacking the Treasury’s top civil servant on day one.

Now she complains of “the legion of parastatals, independent regulators, official advisory bodies and various public sector organizations that constrain and obstruct ministers at every turn”.

She wants the UK Budget Office, the United Nations, the UK Supreme Court abolished and the current Governor of the Bank of England to resign.

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“Democratic Accountability”

Seizing absolute power by winning control of conservative factions and suppressing anyone or institutions that stood in her way was the “democratic accountability” she believed in.

Truss’s friendship with the United States extends beyond the Heritage Foundation. She shared a platform at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with Steve Bannon, who served as a political strategist in the Trump administration and was subsequently accused of fraud.

She remained silent when Bannon described far-right figure Tommy Robinson, co-founder of the English Defense League, as a “hero”. Trump friend Nigel Farage was also at CPAC, and Truss said she would like to see him join the Conservative Party.

Failed leaders escape ostracism

The disaster of Truss’s premiership should have disqualified her from further active participation in politics. For most mortgage payers, she has made the cost-of-living crisis worse.

Making no secret of it, she remains politely listened to in Conservative circles – including by reporters she hand-picked for a limited round of interviews leading up to the book’s publication.

Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer has repeatedly mentioned Truss to the PM at PMI, referring to the “political wing of the Flat Earth Society” and the “tinfoil hat brigade”.

Sunak replied that Starmer was “sarcastic from the sidelines”, while the Prime Minister did not mention Truss directly.

However, he previously accused her of “fairy tale economics” during a leadership debate.

After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Republicans had a golden opportunity to get rid of Trump.

If the Senate votes for his second impeachment, he will be disqualified from holding public office in the future. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell considered the issue, but then Republicans decided it was in their best electoral interests to retain him.

Trusses should not be underestimated

Across the country, Truss’ latest performance was met with much derision. Ridiculing her outside the courtroom was wrong.

Her “unfinished business” includes being the player to drag the Conservatives to the right after their general election defeat. She does not need the approval of the market or the country as a whole to become the party leader.

She just needs to win over the support of the hundreds of thousands or so older voting members of the Conservative Party. They had elected her once before – she had been Prime Minister only 18 months earlier – and no one wanted to admit they had made a mistake.

Their conservatism may appeal to some card-carrying “conservatives” here if Trump is re-elected.

Truss as leader or senior shadow minister will keep Trumpism alive in this country.

The UK Conservative Party would do well to think carefully before being shackled to opposition for five years by her borrowed far-right self-obsession.