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President Joe Biden Calls On Americans To "Start From Zero"

2021-01-20T18:55:33.521Z


Democrat swears in office and promises national reconciliation after four years of political upheaval


The United States has said goodbye to the era of Donald Trump and has started a new journey with the arrival in the White House of Joe Biden.

The Democrat has become president this Wednesday in front of the same Capitol that was stormed just two weeks ago and has called for the "unity" of the citizens at a particularly troubled moment in history.

In an exciting but unusual ceremony, tarnished by the pandemic and tight security measures, Biden has condemned the violence, praised the victory of democracy and called on the people to "start from scratch."

He gave a catharsis speech in a day for history.

Kamala Harris is as of today the first woman to hold the vice presidency of the most powerful country in the world.

Around 12 noon, with his hand on the same Bible he was sworn in as a senator half a century ago, Joseph Robinette Biden (Scranton, Pennsylvania, 78) was sworn in to the office he has always dreamed of.

He is now the 46th president of the United States, the second Catholic in history (after John Fitzgerald Kennedy), the one who comes to the post with the oldest, the one who seemed defeated a year ago.

He is the man who has managed to unite the Democrats against Trump and the one who must bring the nation out of very low hours.

“We have learned that democracy is a precious and fragile asset, but democracy has won.

This is the day of America, it is the day of democracy ”, said the new president in an intervention of about 25 minutes, which gave the tone of the serious moment that the country is experiencing.

He tiptoed through policies, plans and programs, did not mention Trump and focused his message on values, on the recovery of an American spirit that defines unity and struggle.

Biden, whom millions of Americans accuse of having stolen the elections instigated by Trump, insisted on the urgency of "the truth."

This insistence, and the general idea of ​​the speech, that of leaving behind a time of war and trauma, conveyed a certain air of hope, but above all it was reminiscent of the words of Gerald R. Ford when he assumed the presidency in 1974, after his resignation. by Richard Nixon on the

Watergate case:

"Countrymen, our national nightmare is over."

The United States is a country founded in rebellion against the monarchy, but with presidential rites typical of royalty and the day of the inauguration of office is one of the most affirmative milestones, a grandiloquent ceremony, with an air of triumph and optimism.

This year was obscured by the pandemic, which has claimed 400,000 lives and by the political upheaval, which forced the city to close and crystallized with the absence of the outgoing president.

Instead of the hundreds of thousands of citizens who used to follow the act from the National Mall, the great green boulevard dawned with a sea of ​​flags in memory of those who died and around 25,000 soldiers of the National Guard guarding the streets.

With the end of the Trump term, the United States sends a message to the world, also traversed in recent years by the rise of populist movements that are beginning to wear out.

With the violent assault on Congress just two weeks ago, incited by the president himself and his infundies, it also sends the signal that the tear remains.

Trump, breaking a more than century-old tradition, avoided accompanying his successor and left the city early, still proud as president, to fly for the last time in the presidential Air Force One plane and land in his Florida refuge.

It turned out, however, a day of hope for at least more than half this country, weary of four years of tension, and for the rest of the world, traditional allies of the United States to whom the Obama-era vice president has promised the return of the great power after the nationalist turn promoted by its republican predecessor.

The new government inherits a country in a recession that it had not seen in 70 years and with debt levels at the height of World War II.

Four hard years have passed in the life of this country, limits have been explored, the seams of institutions and democracy put to the test.

Citizens have seen their president fraternize with the world's worst dictators, throw packages of toilet paper at hurricane victims, or talk about the “good folks” among those neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville in 2017. With the pandemic, began Trump's fall into hell.

He castled in denial first and extravagance later.

By losing the elections, he launched the final pulse on the system, he tried to reverse it based on lies.

More than half of Republican voters continue to believe them.

Now Trump is in Florida and Biden is in the White House.

The United States is now beginning the hard road to reconciliation.

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