Biden stormed Trump's legacy too fast Israel today

Biden's influx of orders is intended to deal with an emergency, but it does not justify wholesale shortcuts • Will the president remain true to his pragmatic values?

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• US President Joe Biden // Photo: AP

One of the most prominent features of American politics is the tendency to move from one ideological and political ideological pole directly to the opposite pole.

This, without any attempt to find a common denominator between the two poles that will bridge and mediate - even if partially - between the contradictions and disputes, and thus steer the American ship in an integrative and collaborative manner to a safe shore.

Thus, for example, President Woodrow Wilson led his nation to involvement in World War I in 1917 on the basis of his utopian aspiration to establish a new existence in Europe that would be based on the principles of liberal democracy and self-determination, and ensure stability and peace.

It was not long before, however, and the crash of the apocalyptic vision from Wilson's creator on the ground of rebellious and illusory reality - the growth of a completely different mental and behavioral paradigm.

Specifically, the disillusionment from the sublime dream of a new and democratic European order placed at the top of the pyramid President Warren Harding, who unilaterally and immediately disengaged from the global space and launched an era of visionless separatism and focused entirely within American space.

To the same extent that the belief that political culture on the European continent can be anchored in the American heritage of values ​​quickly faded into oblivion, so did the idea that "my home is a fortress," which underpinned the separatist paradigm, failed the test of reality and proved disastrous.

For America, which stood indifferent on the other side, allowed the dark forces of Nazism and Fascism, which challenged world order, to gain unimpeded momentum until they also swept the American power to the battlefield of World War II.

Even today, we see a similar picture of a sharp pendulum motion between conflicting mental orientations.

Just as Donald Trump made a U-turn and distanced himself from the tradition of collective security and action under a broad international envelope, so too it became clear that the early days of his White House successor, Joe Biden, were marked by a significant de-Trumpization.

While this tendency to put the American people on a completely different path after four years of neo-separatist policies from Trump's maker is understandable, Biden's main test (from the outset that he championed the message of national Likud and reconciliation between camps) would be to try to overcome resentment and hostility. , And also to raise the Democratic Congress on a path leading to the healing of the rifts.

In particular, things are said in relation to two complexes.

The first is Trump's retroactive dismissal.

Despite the 46th president's initial reluctance to open the trial immediately - which could obscure and complicate his busy legislative agenda, while exacerbating the rift and polarization between rival camps, Biden has refrained from devoting all his weight to postponing or freezing the proceedings, which will indeed be launched in February 8th.

In doing so, he conveys a message of weakness from home, which may make it difficult for him further down the road during the groundbreaking legislative moves he intends to promote.

The second set of challenging issues, facing the President, is related to the governance process itself.

Undoubtedly before his eyes stands the figure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who in the shadow of the Great Depression managed to bring about, during the first hundred days of his tenure, a real revolution in the economic, financial and social system, providing employment and minimal economic security to millions of unemployed and impoverished citizens.

This time, too, the president is facing a severe crisis as a result of the corona plague, which claimed the lives of some 410,000 Americans.

Against this background, it is easy to understand his ambition to establish facts on the ground, especially in the sector of the war on the virus and when it comes to canceling initiatives that most symbolized the Trump era.

Indeed, during his first three days in the White House, Biden signed no less than 30 presidential decrees (an unusual procedure compared to the past), which were intended to ensure a faster and more effective response to the Corona.

However, at least some of these orders (including in relation to the additional aid package, which the administration is interested in promoting) appear to be a detour route.

After all, presidential decrees are intended to allow immediate response to emergencies, but this fact does not justify wholesale shortcuts, what is more the courts may disqualify at least some of them, and what the democratic majority in both houses will approve at least the bulk of its legislative initiatives.

Thus, while most Democratic lawmakers are determined to erase any trace of the Trump era, the question is whether the new president will remain true to his operational code, based on a pragmatic and stately approach, to mobilize support from both sides of the bar in fighting the invisible enemy. Himself, even without joy, in the polar opposite of that of his predecessor, with all the dangers and risks involved.