So far, Donald Trump has avoided, to say the least, adding fuel to the political fire created by the attack that nearly killed him last Saturday (13) while President Joe Biden addressed the country asking people to lower the temperature. It would be like asking for less heat on the edge of a volcano crater.
What the world’s greatest power is experiencing is not just the political turmoil caused by an assassination attempt. The United States has experienced this before, and not that long ago. The big difference is the degree of division, disagreement, polarization, social differences – in short, of rift, fracture, that is tearing into irreconcilable pieces a society that once had a great spirit of community. Its great strength, by the way.
In this sense, what is erupting are broader social and cultural factors. And they have a three-by-four portrait exactly in the man chosen by Trump today to be his vice president on the election ticket in November. Senator James David Vance, just 39 years old, became a celebrity by telling his own story. It is not the old story of the poor boy who made it in life, but one of how cultural values – mainly work and family – are what explain overcoming despair, or poverty and moral misery.
Vance is a kind of personification of how very diverse electorates—blacks, Latinos, immigrants, unskilled workers—have found in Trump a kind of “retribution” against elites by whom they felt abandoned and despised. This deep rift is producing a true social upheaval that threatens the very integrity of the United States and its political system, as we have come to know it. There is much more at stake than just an election.
Source: CNN Brasil
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