Already fully involved in the campaign for the mid-term elections on November 8, Joe Biden displayed all the fury he seems capable of expressing last night. He did so to call on Americans to kick Donald Trump out of politics for posing "a threat to the very foundation of our republic."
It was in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the cradle of the republic as the place where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were signed; in prime time (8 p.m. on the East Coast)...
... And it was also two days after the US Attorney General's Office and Department of Justice pointed to a possible indictment of the former president for obstruction of justice by concealing the secret documents finally seized by the FBI in his Florida home.
Biden definitively parked the subtleties and cautions, the implicit and indirect allusions, to literally point the finger at his predecessor in office as internal enemy number one for the nation. "Trump and the other extreme Republicans in MAGA promote authoritarian leaders and fan the flames of political violence. And they are determined to push this country back," the president said. louder than ever.
That is why they must be kicked out, he came to point out, although he said it in electoral terms: "We must vote, vote, vote," he emphasized. Because it is necessary, he argued, to stop assuming that the system survives. "For a long time we believed that American democracy was guaranteed. But it's not! We have to defend her, protect her, stand up!" she exclaimed.
BIden lamented that the Republican Party is today "dominated, led and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGAs." Because that represents "a threat to the country," he reiterated. And he added that it is a danger that he, as president of all Americans, wants to avert. And for this he had chosen "the place where it all began": the one where the fathers of the country laid the pillars of a country in which today, more than two centuries later and with a civil war in between, half of the population he believes he is heading towards a new violent confrontation.
For years now, American politics has seemed like a pressure cooker about to explode. So it is difficult to imagine that the tension will worsen, having reached heights that are supposed to be insurmountable in a settled and veteran democracy. And yet, even after a coup attempt that should have taught a lesson, his instigator grows stronger and stronger. And the atmosphere, more and more unbreathable.
