In Washington
Joe Biden's inauguration takes place in a city under siege.
Arriving the day before his inauguration, the President-elect was unable to take the Amtrak, the train that serves the East Coast of the United States, from his home in Wilmington to Washington, as he did regularly during his long career as a senator.
For security reasons, he landed at a nearby military base and joined Washington in a convoy under high protection.
The capital he finds has been transformed by the pandemic and the last weeks of political tension that culminated in the attack on the Capitol.
The atmosphere in the federal capital sums up quite well the special conditions in which Biden takes office, in the midst of several simultaneous crises: health, economic and political.
Like some of his predecessors, such as Abraham Lincoln, whose election precipitated Southern secession and civil war,
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