" Beware, America is in a rage!" Launched Jean-Paul Sartre in 1953. At the heart of the cold war, his slogan which condemned the United States, guarantors of the security of democracies, in support of the Stalinist USSR constituted a tragic political mistake. In 2020, it is perfectly correct: rage is tearing the United States apart and destroying its leadership.
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A little more than thirty years after the collapse of Sovietism, the United States in turn threatened to disintegrate, agreeing with Tocqueville who emphasized that democracies die less from military defeats than from the corruption of their institutions by demagogues and the loss of civic sense of citizens under the effect of individualism.
America indeed has four crises. The Covid-19 epidemic has turned into Pearl Harbor health, with some 110,000 deaths. It causes a historic recession, marked by a wave of 45 million unemployed in three months and a drop in GDP estimated at 6.5
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