Occurring in the middle of the presidential campaign, the epidemic of Covid-19 which is spreading in the United States has not reduced the deep antagonism between Republicans and Democrats. If the number of victims and the feeling of being attacked on their territory led the Americans to compare the crisis to their two most recent national traumas, the Japanese surprise attack on the base of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Islamist attacks of 11 September 2001, the epidemic did not provoke a rally of the political class. The feeling of national union, which arose during the unanimous vote by Congress of the exceptional measures to support the economy, was only short-lived.
The animosity between "red" America, supporters of Trump, and that of the "blue" Democrats, quickly took over. Passed almost without transition from the “Ukrainegate” scandal to Covid-19, American policy applied the same partisan interpretation to the health crisis. And the coronavirus has become
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