LThe Biden administration is a steamroller who would have put on skates. She walks quietly, but she advances. A month after arriving at the White House, she crushed all she could of the previous legacy. First of all, there was the rain of presidential decrees allowing the annulment of those signed in his time by Donald Trump, then a methodical offensive on words.
The time has come for the revenge of those who had been ruthlessly purged: ” illegal immigrants ” replace “Illegal aliens”, ” climate change “ takes the place of “Magnificent coal”, or “Clean coal”. Once banned, the word “Science” today jumps in the face of the visitor who ventures on the site of the Environmental Protection Agency, transformed for four years into a lobby for fossil fuels.
As noted by New York Times, that of the Bureau of Land Management, responsible for the administration of federal lands within the interior department, now opens with a bucolic sunset watched by a hiker. It replaced the sight of an open-pit coal mine in Wyoming that the previous administration had imposed as early as April 2017 in place of a twilight similar to the current one where a walker and his son already appeared.
Talk to as many people as possible
La Casa Blanca, Spanish version deleted in 2017 from the White House site had reappeared immediately the swearing in of Joe Biden. The large sign installed in the lobby of the State Department urging officials to behave in “Champions of American diplomacy” and of “America first” in a tone close to admonition in this supposed den of progressives, had also been concealed before the arrival of the new Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
In terms of sexual identities, transgender people who had been asked to disappear for four years will be able to return to the army and now have the features of Rachel Levine. Auditioned this week in the Senate, this doctor who has identified for a decade as a woman, armed with diplomas and former secretary of health of the State of Pennsylvania, should become the deputy of that of the federal government, to the chagrin of the senators most conservative Republicans.
These semantic and symbolic battles are obviously eclipsed by the one conducted in Congress to have a gargantuan support plan adopted for the moment by a solid majority of American opinion, but they are nonetheless strategic. They constitute the retaining wall of Joe Biden’s bet: that of speaking to as many people as possible, unlike the exclusive choice of its base that his predecessor had made with the success that we know.
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