Joe Biden set a goal. After the Trump storm, the elderly Democratic president wished “correct” United States and work to reconcile a broken country. In the mid-term, one thing is clear: he failed. The heated debate sparked across the Atlantic by the Supreme Court’s decision to no longer guarantee women abortion rights is just the latest example of the deep divisions running through the oldest modern democracy. Two increasingly irreconcilable countries coexist in the unincorporated American states.
The two Americas are getting worse and worse together
The wounds of the civil war and segregation were believed to have long since healed. In fact, mistrust of Dixieland, the former Confederate States of America, never faded. “Old things are not forgotten.” sang Elvis Presley in it American Trilogy. Faced with brash progressive America, a kind of longing simmered in the silence. Those left behind, the whites of the Republican Party, announce…
Source: Le Figaro
