Four years of anti-Trump media campaign are not enough to raise the “blue wave”: Biden already lame duck

6 November 20204 years ago babelfish

In these four years, the attack on Trump has been frontal, with the New York Times and CNN as the vanguard. According to the dominant version, it should have been enough to create a "blue avalanche". The polls are adequate there, with the unconscious ambition to fulfill a prophecy destined to come true: it was the presupposed reality, not the technique, that betrayed the variegated tribe of pollsters … Yet, in the end, there is something wrong: concern for the economy and the always undervalued "American soul". Biden's tactical bet is partially won, it is likely that even if at the end of a long legal dispute the White House will arrive, but already as a lame duck

Following the media campaign unleashed by the "local intelligentsia", with a choral participation of showmen, journalists, writers, artists against Trump, I remembered hearing the same music at the election and, albeit attenuated, at Reagan's re-election, who today can well be considered as one of the greatest and most beloved American presidents of the last century. Then, as now, the prevention was given by being a Republican, therefore on the right, which as we know means a bad right, because there is never a right that goes well with the left, if not the one condemned to a malleable opposition. So far nothing in particular, but the common note is given by the desire to defame the person in question in any way: so Reagan was an ignorant cowboy and a failed actor, Trump a tax evader but above all a mentally deranged. Nothing more, nothing less than two magic pipers destined to bring the US to total ruin. For Reagan we can refer to the din of that time, for Trump we can review the reconstruction done on La7 by Purgatori, a real psychiatric medical record, without even a word spent to offer an overview of his presidency, which a little something valid. 'has also produced: from the contrast of China, with Europe closed in an obsequious silence, so much so as to censor the very origin of the virus, up to the Abrahamic Agreements, also here with Europe blocked by a paralyzing complex against the Palestinian population .

It is not all our own flour, we imported it from the US itself, where the attack on Trump was head-on, with the New York Times and CNN at the forefront : as a man he was tarnished daily; corrupt and corrupter, tax evader, unscrupulous womanizer; as president he was severely contested, both for his election and for his politics. He would have been elected with the help of Putin, author of a media campaign against Clinton, so much so as to deserve an impeachment , promoted by the Democrats despite the almost absolute certainty of not being able to bring him to the Senate; he would have governed from bad to worse, with a failed management of the epidemic and with a law and order campaign destined to inflame the African-American protest.

It has been deliberately ignored that the US is a federal country, where the power of governors, assemblies, courts is quite different from that of our presidents and regional councils, there the governors can dispose of the state national guard and the mayors of the local police. The criticisms about the absence of restrictive anti- Covid measures should have also been extended to the governors and assemblies of the States ; and the protests under the banner of George Floyd matter against the violence of the agents should have mainly concerned those mayors who were responsible for it. Not for nothing were the governors and mayors called into question often Democrats.

According to the dominant version, all this should have been enough to create a "blue avalanche", such as to color almost the entire geographical map of the USA, with a minority attesting to para-racist positions, in the lead the white record holders, true heirs of the white caps of the Klu klux Klan . And the polls are adequate, with the unconscious ambition to realize a prophecy destined to come true: it was the presupposed reality not the technique that betrayed the variegated tribe of pollsters, with numbers tending to agree around a minus ten points to damage. by Trump.

Yet, there was something wrong, people's overriding concern for the economy, accompanied by greater trust in Trump, not for what he said, but for what he had done, ensuring the country a period of economic growth and employment, bringing unemployment to historic lows. Not only that, there was a chronic underestimation of what can be called the American soul, living off one's work, not a state subsidy, privileging a free world over a safe one, believing that each individual is the protagonist of his own future.

Here lies the real difference, in the vision of the melting pot . Trump takes classic republican politics to the extreme, he is not racist with regard to people, but, if you want, with respect to cultures, there must be a tendency towards convergence on values, which are those of the American soul. This is the way forward for the integration of ethnic minorities, which must be of language but also of history, which cannot be contested a posteriori, judging the past in the light of a present that is also its child.

Biden tries to contain the drift to the left of the current democratic politics, however sharing the fundamental inspiration of a coexistence of different minorities, including the white Anglo-Saxon one, destined to become such due to the lower fertility and the constant immigration from Mexico; coexistence under the banner of a mutual tolerance of different languages and stories, without sharing the values of the traditional soul.

Moreover, Biden's strategic bet has been lost, because privileging one ethnic group to the detriment of another means losing the trust of the latter, the opening of a blank bill in favor of the African-American one, has inevitably led to the taking of distance from Latinos , as the Florida affair teaches us, given that in the absence of a common culture, each ethnic group closes in on itself, contravening the classic formula of ex pluribus unum , created with reference to the federated states, but also applicable with with regard to identity values.

Biden's tactical bet has been partially won, because it is probable that even if at the end of a long legal dispute, he will go to live in the White House, evicting the current tenant who has become defaulted; but not without a cost, which is not what appears at first sight, of a radical division between right and left, but of a competitive segmentation between components, this time not by national origin as in the days of the massive emigration from Europe, today basically reabsorbed, but by languages, traditions, beliefs, so as to constitute as many enclaves .

A bet only partially won, as Biden is condemned to be a lame duck since the beginning of his mandate, the Senate remained in the hands of the Republicans, with a Trump in command who came out strengthened with respect to the party. The threat of regaining the majority of the Supreme Court, with the increase in the number of members, all remitted by the president in office, has completely vanished, so that the most powerful institution in the American system will remain for an unpredictable time in the hands of the conservatives. but this is only one aspect of the difficult path of the new president, because the Senate largely conditions presidential action.

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