"Democracy is in danger."
That's how blunt Joe Biden was last night when he appealed to the unity of Americans to avoid "chaos" to which, in his opinion, the attitude of the Republicans leads who, on the path marked by Donald Trump after his defeat in the 2020 presidential elections, "They are not going to commit to accepting the results of next Tuesday's mid-term elections." A resistance, already suggested by some, that "is unprecedented, illegal and anti-American".
For this reason, in a solemn televised intervention that the White House announced a few hours in advance, the US president called on voters to save democracy "with their vote."
Biden said he knows the country well and is sure that its citizens will preserve the system that "has cost so many sacrifices to so many people for so long." It is in "their power and their responsibility" to do so, he said.
“The very future of our nation depends on my fellow Americans,” he added. "We must, with an overwhelmingly unified voice, speak up as a country and say that there is no place for voter intimidation or political violence in America, whether against Democrats or Republicans."
The president referred to both the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2020 and the attack that Trump conspiracy theorist David DePape planned against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and, in his absence from the family residence in San Francisco, ended up perpetrating hammer blows against her husband, Paul Pelosi, 82: an attack that Donald Trump Jr., the son of the former president, mocked on Twitter with a photo alluding to the events that showed some underpants and a hammer.
"We do not resolve our differences in the United States with a riot, a mob, a bullet or a hammer," added the US president; "That is not our country."
And, alluding also to the thousands of threats and more than one attack or attempted attack suffered in the last two years by congressmen and employees of the electoral bodies of different states, he affirmed: “Violence against Democrats, Republicans and civil servants nonpartisans just doing their job is the consequence of lies told from power, malicious lies about conspiracies repeated over and over again to generate a cycle of anger, hate and vitriol.”
Biden sounded serious; he sounded worried. It is not for less
