Ran Halévi: "The 'racial equity' theorem will not reconcile America"

Ran Halévi is research director at the CNRS and professor at the Raymond-Aron Center for Political Research.

Joe Biden's inauguration speech was punctuated by vibrant calls for national reconciliation.

“Unity, unity”

, he repeated, inviting his compatriots to

“restore, repair, relieve”

an America still traumatized by the riot on the Capitol.

Speech without much brilliance but whose soothing simplicity contrasted with the impetuous gossip of his predecessor.

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The presidential exhortations however come up against a reality which persists in denying them.

The bipartisan dialogue, which Mr. Biden has continued to practice during his long career, is no longer in fashion.

On the left and the right, many equate it to a form of betrayal: to consider compromises is to compromise oneself in an America which has become, to quote Lincoln's famous word,

"a house divided against itself

.

"

And the new president himself risks contributing to it by taking

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