Trump has not lost his political instincts. Caught in the scissor effect of a health crisis that plunges the economy into a doldrums, and that resumes with each recovery attempt, the American president understood the advantage he could draw from the Democratic Party’s higher bid in the field cultural.
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Carried by the nationwide wave of collective emotion sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter quickly mutated. First denouncing the police violence of which minorities would be particularly victims, the movement began to include in its criticisms the American society as a whole, considering racism and white supremacism as founding elements of the United States, and calling for let them be redacted.
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In many cities in the southern United States, statues depicting the heroes of Confederation were the first targets, covered in graffiti, and, in a number of places, knocked down
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