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In the end, words will heal us

2021-01-20T22:46:44.805Z


Biden's team understood that a message had to be delivered, not just a democratic ritual. Hence the importance of details, symbols and content


United States President Joe Biden, this Wednesday.Caroline Brehman / POOL / EFE

A sermon, a hymn, a song, a prayer, a poem, an oath, a speech.

All possible registers of language, including silence in memory of the deceased or sign language.

Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony has been starring - finally - by words, not by outbursts.

Healing and peacemaking words against the inflammatory and divisive words of his predecessor.

The coldness of the ceremony, imposed by security measures and the pandemic, has not managed to overshadow the restorative and transforming capacity of democracy.

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