Why Trump's victory moves the Democratic Party of Albania from defense to offense

Alfred Lela

The foreword that 'First Lady' Linda Rama had written for the Albanian translation of Kamala Harris's autobiography and the idea to promote the book in the early days after her expected announcement as the 47th President of America was just one of the ornaments that the 'Socialist Feast Committee' had prepared in Tirana.

Under the direction of the Deputy Mayor of Tirana, Romina Kuko, an electoral surveying war room was set up at the Socialist Party headquarters on November 5 to welcome the election of Rama's favorite with triumphalism, champagne, and fireworks. In a live appearance with prime time talk show "Open," she was careful not to openly express her support for Harris (in case of any eventuality), but two exciting details emerged. Kuko admitted that the Socialist headquarters received real-time data from the headquarters of Vice President Harris. Behind her were young people who, while she spoke, consumed drinks or food.

It was the setting for a party that didn't end as such. Sometime in the early morning hours, just as Harris supporters sadly left Howard University in DC, her supporters in Tirana also left the 'party headquarters' in Tirana.

Socialists, despite the delusional idea that Rama "has arranged with Trump to give him Sazan island," cannot stand the Republican President. They would like, and were waiting, for Kamala Harris to be elected. Not that they know her or value her policies and tendencies for Albania or the region, but that they were sure of the strong ties of their boss Rama's friend, Alex Soros, with Kamala and the democratic camp. Especially after the marriage of Soros Jr. with Huma Abedin, a strategist and longtime adviser to America's Democratic elite.

The socialists lost hope in Tirana, and it is enough to know that Romina Kuko refused to appear again on the talk show "Open" on Wednesday evening when the Trump presidency was a certified fact.

Undoubtedly, the 'center' message has been: if we can't cheer for Harris, we can not express frustration for Trump.

In this sense, the chapter of socialists with the White House and extra-institutional favors using Alex Soros's hand on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue seems closed. Until and if another 'solicitor' is found, the Socialists must be content with the dream of Sazan Island going to the Trump family through Rama's signature.

If one chapter is closed, another is opened for the Democratic Party. Surviving after a concentrated transnational effort to destroy, the largest opposition party is experiencing legitimate relief after Trump's spectacular result.

The appointments of the President-elect, at least in the first phase, give him the right. Lee Zeldin, the former congressman who was so vocal in the congressional committees for the non-gata of Sali Berisha, several times asked Secretary Blinken for an account and facts about the design of the former Albanian prime minister. Trump chose him in his first days as head of the EPA-Environmental Protection Agency, a position in the rank of a Secretary considering the attention that the environment receives, especially in light of the clash between the left and the right for oil, renewable energy, electric or conventional cars, drilling in Alaska, global warming, etc.

Even the expected choice of Secretary of State, Blinken's replacement, which is officially expected to go to Marco Rubio but behind the scenes is also being lobbied for Ric Grenell, is an appointment that favors the right-wing opposition. Rubio is a descendant of Cubans estranged from Castro's communist terror and, therefore, with a more sensitive ear for anti-communist rhetoric. Grenell's narrative is already evident in Tirana. If nothing else, he has said publicly that he has not seen any damaging evidence about Sali Berisha during his work as the head of American intelligence services.

Even other selections, such as Stephen Miller, chief of staff on policy and a hawk of anti-liberal causes, especially Elon Musk, speak of a clear trend of the Trump administration. Billionaire Musk can be considered, together with Viktor Orban in Hungary and Sali Berisha in Albania, one of the world's three prominent people of anti-Soros rhetoric.

It is safe to say that the White House of the next four years is anti-Soros.

This new political configuration in Washington says a lot in theory. Practically, it frees Berisha and PD from fighting on the 'western front.' The American 'enemies' have lost, and non-grata is thus transformed from a certificate with ideological and political impulses to a decision that can be annulled through the procedure, i.e., a bureaucracy.

If the political angle is removed, Sali Berisha's non-grata status falls with Blinken's as Secretary of State and Soros's strength in the White House.

This knowledge allows the Democratic Party to move from a defensive position to an offensive one starting today until the following elections.

It is something after all.