For the first time, more than two-thirds of Americans believe their democracy is on the brink of collapse. The Quinnipiac University survey, carried out at the end of August, recorded that the fear of the end of the oldest constitutional democracy in the world is now pointed out by 69% of the population.
This time, the fear of autocracy was distributed among the general population and in all age groups, not just between Democrats and independents.
The NBC network, in the same period, released a survey revealing that, even after inflation hit a 40-year high, the cost of living was in second place (16%) as the biggest concern of Americans. “Threats to Democracy” led with 21%.
Even critics of the American exercise of power, who fear the global consequences if the country elects a new or the original Trump, would look to the Democrat in the White House for leadership in this crisis of the republic, the most serious since the end of the Civil War. in the 19th century.
But to expect maturity from the political elite or the media covering politics here is courting disillusionment. On the 1st, Joe Biden made the most forceful speech of his 18 months in office, in a diagnosis of the authoritarian threat recognized by 69% of Americans.
After holding back for long months, preoccupied with passing several sweeping packages of legislation, Biden pointed out the obvious. He said that part of Trump’s electorate is semi-fascist; that they only accept two results in an election —we won or were robbed—; and that there is a Republican-led movement in the states to subvert the midterm elections in November.
Biden, who has been negotiating with the opposition for five decades, in the Senate or the White House, had to enter the fight that should have been raging in Congress years ago. He reminded voters that Trump and his cult intimidate the Republican Party with a clear project to end the democratic experiment.
None of this is disputed by most Americans, including conservatives horrified by the Capitol Hill invasion and exhausted by the lie that Biden didn’t win in 2020.
A secondary intention of the president may have been to bait the pathological orange narcissist. And he, of course, bit her on Saturday at a rally where he used all the usual apocalyptic clichés, turning the focus of the upcoming election to him, away from the economic and social message. Trump called Biden an enemy of the state — in other words, an enemy of impunity and the Republican’s bank account.
But I’m sorry to report that another segment of the establishment ran over the former president and came to ridicule first. In the following days, cowed reporters of the false equivalence continued to stenograph Trumpists, questioning the legitimacy of Biden’s defense of democracy. Such a system on which they depend to freely exercise the profession.
A respected CNN political reporter was abruptly fired from the company hours after Biden’s speech. The measured John Harwood, 65, said on air after the speech: “It is difficult for us, trained not to take sides between two parties with honest differences of opinion, to admit that this is not an honest debate. the Republican Party”.
It was blasted by the purge already underway demanded by the new owners of CNN, who defend the thesis that fascism is covered with neutrality.
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