Uan angry crowd is crowded outside the gates of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s home in Colombus. Vivid faces press against the windows of the front doors. There is an American flag, two caps with the name of Donald Trump, a megaphone, and a mask of Guy Fawkes, an anti-system historical figure adopted by the Anonymous movement.
The photo was taken on April 13 inside the building by Joshua Bickel, of the Columbus Dispatch. It sums up the fever which seizes a part of the American states where a minority ranged to the right of the right demands, in the name of its conception of freedom, the reopening of a country arrested by the coronavirus. Whatever it costs.
This fever is also contagious. Friday morning, the White House was besieged from the inside by a Donald Trump brandishing a virtual fork on his Twitter account. He attacked the incompetent president who, the day before, had unveiled a cautious and gradual plan to restart the United States. "Free Minnesota!" "Free Michigan!" "Liberate Virginia, and save your besieged second amendment!" "
The president had already stumbled, Monday, on the tenth amendment of the Constitution which he promised to protect by taking office when he had asserted having an authority "Total" on States in terms of deconfinement. The embarrassment had disputed with fatigue in his own camp facing these vain reels. He had pitifully backed away.
Schizophrenia
Friday, Donald Trump was selective in targeting in his words only states led by Democrats, and denouncing an unbearable attack against firearms in Virginia about the modest measures supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans for oversee this market. Ohio, led by a Republican very reactive to the pandemic, was not mentioned, nor was Maryland or Massachusetts, also at the forefront of the fight.
The president had read his notes seriously on Thursday. “The sacrifices made by our fellow citizens in this period of crisis will remain in our memories, they will be studied, honored and praised by generations to come. We really all work together. Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, Liberals, we all work together. These are not political parties, this is our country ", he assured, consensual as it should be in times of national tragedy. The next day, half of his posts on Twitter by his insurgent double denounced the lamentations of the Democrats. The other half were republications of heavy tributes like buttercream.
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