In the United States, we don't count anymore.
Traumatized by the pandemic, citizens are ready to believe anything.
Especially those who tell them that public money, spent in unprecedented proportions, will solve their problems.
And all the more so if this money is presented to them as free.
Joe Biden, who was believed to be centrist, understood that the shock of the pandemic allows him to pass, if necessary to a single majority vote in the Senate, what the Democratic left has dreamed of getting accepted for more than a generation : the second death of Ronald Reagan.
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The new president is attempting a big push to the left, materialized by a spectacular increase in the role of the federal state in the lives of Americans and an explosion in public spending.
It is about taking advantage of the loss of benchmarks caused by the pandemic, the confinements and the excesses of Donald Trump, to make America take the biggest turn since the "Great Society", named after the social programs established.
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