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2021-01-20T18:16:39.009Z


Biden and Harris symbolize confidence in America's future and social change. Trump and the assault on the Capitol embody resistance to any transformation


The assault on the Capitol failed to change anything, because Joe Biden has become the 46th president of the United States, but nothing will be the same after January 6 because it showed how damaging Donald Trump's four years in the White House have been .

Biden encounters a country at a very dangerous time, perhaps the most fraught since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s.

And it is not just the 400,000 deaths from covid-19, with a pandemic unleashed and ignored by the outgoing Administration.

As then, the United States is experiencing profound social change, symbolized by Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman and the first non-white person to hold this position, but at the same time she is faced, as at that time, with stiff resistance, which he embodies Trump himself and the mob of supremacists that stormed Congress.

Neither the pathetic exit from the White House of the tycoon, who faces a new

impeachment

and all kinds of legal problems, nor the insane appearance of any of the characters who starred in the attempted coup d'état can hide that the refusal to accept the The electoral result and the militias, with more or less complicity in the Armed Forces and security, represent a real problem for American democracy.

During his speech, Biden made many references to that decisive and dangerous moment.

“The answer is not that we divide into two competing sides.

We have to end this non-civil war, ”he exclaimed.

"Don't tell me that things can't change," he said in a few words that turned into a plea against division and lies.

The enormous military deployment, typical of a country in conflict, only underscored the extent to which the situation is volatile in the US His greatest nod to the Trump electorate was not in his words, but in the choice of one of the artists : Garth Brooks, a

country

singer

from Oklahoma, nod to rural, Republican America.

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Brooks's performance, who sang

Amazing grace

, had sparked protests from some conservative groups.

Trump has transformed any matter of division:

country

music

, face masks - in Lawrence Wright's lengthy January article, which ran an entire issue of

The New Yorker

magazine

, an epidemiologist explained that "there is nothing more to be done stupid ”in the middle of a pandemic.

But most of all, he embodies white supremacism.

And, unfortunately, it is a feeling that will not be lost in time like tears in the rain.

Many of the slogans that were heard during the assault on the Capitol were racist, as were numerous statements by the former president, as well as an indisputable fact: the police double standards between the Capitol nuts and the anti-racist protesters of Black Lives Matter.

Biden and Harris, a Senate and Congress more diverse than ever, the inauguration ceremony itself, reflect the profound change in the United States.

They symbolize the optimism of a new era, but Trump and the guy with the horns and the congresswoman from QAnon reflect the dangerous resistance of a worldview that will be too present during the four years of hope, but also of fear, that begin now.


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