Joe Biden - Donald Trump: why so much hatred?
This hatred was first born from a shock when, on this Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Hillary Clinton is expected to celebrate a historic victory at the Javits Center, a gigantic block of glass, which she symbolically chose, in the heart of New York, where the party is in full swing, inside and out, with thousands of cheering supporters. The game was over. It was acquired. The former first lady would become the first woman elected president of the United States. The rest, everyone knows. Hillary Clinton won't break the glass ceiling. She will not even come to console her faithful prostrate on the ground, mouths agape, teary eyes riveted on the giant screens recounting incredible results, when others will roll on the ground in despair.
Hillary Clinton's mistake
The gossip will even say that the candidate of the Democratic Party had made a faint, the same evening, in her house of Chappaqua, one hour of New York. The chroniclers and commentators may have turned and returned the map of the country in all directions, the results were there, blood red, the color of "red necks" as the voters of the Republican Party are called in reference. to the rural and workers' states that precisely the candidate has not taken enough into account during her campaign. An error of assessment, fraught with consequences, that will not fail to remind him during almost his entire term of office by his opponent and winner, another New Yorker, the billionaire Donald Trump.
This America forgotten under the Obama years, that of the fields and factories still in operation, the real estate magnate has made it his constant struggle. The breach, four years ago, was wide open. “He would get on trailers loaded with straw and put his hand on the shoulders of the farmers and say, you vote for me and I will help you,” remembers Jimmy, a former member of his staff. Some had not seen a politician for fifteen years. Still, it was sure. Donald Trump couldn't win. This possibility even made people laugh. Starting with President Obama himself followed by the entire political class. Ridiculed in front of everyone by the incumbent president at the traditional White House press correspondents dinner in 2011, Donald Trump would not have ceased to want, one day, to savor his revenge. The anti-elite, the anti-system, the anti-political and peerless connoisseur of the world of television where he hosted his own show, "The Apprentice", the tycoon is as much watched as he is hated. He is entertaining and annoying with his fiery and shameless demeanor, but his rival is not much more popular in terms of popularity. Quite the contrary.
“Hillary, the unloved,” they say of the then former Secretary of Defense. Tired of this privileged caste circling in circles of power, America, casually, wants change.
From tears to anger
"To understand Trump, you put a hard hat on his head," said Roger, a former foreman and supporter at the foot of the Trump Tower in New York, three days before the final vote.
But in the aftermath of the earthquake triggered by the victory of the one no one expected, tears quickly give way to anger. The America of the cities is taking to the streets that it will hardly let go of until today. Resentment and bitterness were also involved because after all, if the electoral college had offered the majority to Donald Trump (304 to 227), the popular vote was to the advantage of his rival "Crook Hillary" (Hillary dishonest) (65.8 million votes against 62.9 million).
Very quickly, an America cut in two took shape. That of the "blue collars" (blue collar) MAGA caps on the head, and the other, that of the cities where the frustration of an never digested defeat gave way to the fury that never stopped growing. The pandemic which has just crossed the 200,000 dead mark and the death of George Floyd last May shattered what was still a little normal.
Old demons deep cleavages
The old demons of systemic racism, poverty and ultra-violence have suddenly resurfaced, bulldozing at the speed of a bulldozer, the divisions already deep in the belly of the world's largest power. While it would take little for the country to slip into civil war, these are the roots of evil that Joe Biden, Donald Trump's new enemy, has inherited on the rails of his own campaign. To great ills, great remedies. These are also the same "disasters" attributed to him and the Democratic camp previously in business, the campaigning president, not decided at all to cede the reins of his governance to him. "Do not leave the country in the hands of" Sleepy Joe "and the Communists, vociferates Donald Trump at length of meetings. If he is elected, it is because he cheated. "
With 35 days to go, Joe Biden maintains his 10 point lead over one of America’s most controversial presidents. Will he be able to appease the fires of division and disarray that are currently ravaging the country in the face of its ruthless debater? Answer, this evening, during the first much awaited televised debate, between the two enemies.
