Joe Biden missed two steps while climbing aboard Air Force One on Friday, March 19. He suddenly exhausted his stock of foot faults. It is undoubtedly cruel but, in this area, the oldest president of the United States has less room for error than his predecessors. The world’s greatest power, which aspires to remain so, cannot repeatedly stumble. We will see if the person concerned, who affected to swallow the stairs like a young man, will henceforth adopt a senator’s step.
The incident at the footbridge, blamed on the wind by the White House because it takes a culprit, allegorically coincides with the first difficulties of the new administration. After remaining for sixty days with a meticulously prepared plan, she is now advancing into uncharted territory.
Here she begins to be destabilized on the border with Mexico by an influx of migrants fleeing Central America, including many unaccompanied minors. An old story, which is being renewed since hurricanes Eta and Iota, in the fall of 2020, mean that natural disasters will soon hunt as effectively as the American dream can attract.
The Republican Party rushes into the breach
The presidential speech metronome, Jen Psaki, also stumbled Thursday, using the expression used by a journalist from “Border crisis”. The latter is in fact officially banned in favor of the otherwise more neutral one of “Border challenge”. Mme Psaki then recovered, but the signals are there and the semantic battle has started.
Obviously, the Republican Party rushes into the breach, defending a Trump model which produced tent camps on the Mexican side and which was nevertheless the negation of what made the United States, a country built by immigration. He is not rushing just because he is inaudible on the gigantic support plan adopted by the Democrats in Congress and which public opinion overwhelmingly supports. Not just because Donald Trump announced untenable goals for the vaccination of his fellow citizens while his successor only posts those he knows he can surpass.
This terrain allows us to reintroduce the irrational that Joe Biden has given himself the mission of fighting to make “Lower the temperature”. Immigration, or rather the images agitated by the republican right, infuriate and panic.
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