A remembrance of old controversies, perhaps a harbinger of what follows: Joe Biden and Donald Trump will deliver speeches on Thursday, a year after the Capitol invasion on January 6, 2021, to present two visions more incompatible than ever.
The former Republican president of the United States was the first to announce that he would give a press conference from his luxury property in Florida.
“While waiting, remember that the uprising took place on November 3,” Trump wrote, referring to the day of the 2020 US presidential election, which he claims, without providing any evidence, that he won. According to opinion polls, the majority of Republicans have the same view.
Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 election with nearly seven million fewer votes than Joe Biden, has no plans to maintain a low profile, despite an ongoing parliamentary inquiry into the role he and his close associates played in this attack on the Capitol that shocked the US.
The former president, on the other hand, seems to continue to play a central role in the Republican Party, sidelining those who do not share his view of “stolen elections.”
“Trump’s behavior is undoubtedly unprecedented in American history. “No former president has tried so hard to challenge the legitimacy of his successor and the democratic process.”
What could Joe Biden, who will speak from the Capitol on Thursday, answer?
The American president reiterates that the American democracy is at a “turning point” and assures that he can save it.
After his election, he avoids open confrontation with “the other type”, “the previous one” – expressions used by Biden and the White House in order not to mention the name of the one who is likely to face again in the 2024 presidential election. .
Officially, Biden intends to run for a second term, and the former Republican president has hinted that he will also run.
For Lara Brown, a professor of political science at George Washington University, “President and Vice President (Kamala) Harris can not engage in direct verbal attacks (against the former president) because they do not want to give the impression of being a ‘hunter’.” Which is orchestrated by the White House, a beloved expression of Trump.
“Naive”
“The Biden administration believed that by making the right political decisions, all this would disappear, but I think that is naive,” Brown added.
According to Biden, the best way to deal with Trump would be to reconcile the American middle class with politics and politicians, by increasing jobs, boosting American purchasing power, and a sense of calm in the face of globalization.
But the US president has not achieved the promised results: the US is facing a new, violent wave of the covid-19 epidemic, the major social reforms promoted by Biden have stalled in Congress and the cost of living is rising.
Rachel Baikofer, a political scientist close to the Democrats, believes that Biden should deal more harshly with the former businessman and the Republican Party.
“We have to honestly admit what it means,” said Trump, who announced in a statement that he supported the re-election campaign of nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. According to Beitkofer, in this way the former president “showed what he wants for America and this is not a democratic future.”
But, as she complains, “there is a real reluctance to admit to what extent the right-wing attack on democracy is toxic.”
“The current threats against democracy are real and worrying,” Tobias said. However, he estimates that “the United States has overcome much more dangerous crises, especially the Civil War.”
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