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United States: "Putting the pieces back together"

1/7/2021, 8:19:50 PM


The Figaro editorial, by Philippe Gélie. After the thunder that befell Washington, it is time to have a compassionate thought for Joseph Robinette Biden Jr .: formally proclaimed Thursday 46th President of the United States, it is up to him to pick up the mirror broken in which likes to contemplate the American democracy, and pick up the pieces. That's good: this old centrist aspires to be in the White House "the chief unifier" of a coun

After the thunder that befell Washington, it is time to have a compassionate thought for Joseph Robinette Biden Jr .: formally proclaimed Thursday 46th President of the United States, it is up to him to pick up the mirror broken in which likes to contemplate the American democracy, and pick up the pieces.

That's good: this old centrist aspires to be in the White House

"the chief unifier"

of a country seriously weakened by its divisions.

But it started badly: the belated start of an

“orderly transition” in

no way diminishes the monumental task that awaits the end of Hurricane Trump.

Joe Biden will have better things to do than investigate the trial of Trumpism.

He should rather thank him: by his calamitous behavior, his predecessor offered him the presidency on a plate and has just added an unexpected majority in the Senate, obtained in a Georgia until then solidly republican.

Trump also leaves him with immense fallow challenges, starting with the

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