Biden, the team turns pink. But the radical left has already broken the truce

No, Biden it will not be a lame duck. For two reasons. The first: for the Senate, which will presumably remain a Republican. The second: by the hypothetical inclusion of republicans dissidents in the future cabinet. The first reason may seem like a paradox. It’s not when you consider that Joe biden he is a moderate in the Democratic Party and as such has the problem of the radical left of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A Republican Senate would allow them to limit concessions to their costly and ambitious social reformism. It would serve as a bank from the opposition banks.

The co-opting of characters from the other party is also nothing new. They practiced it Clinton, Bush and Obama. Historically it has never had the structure of the crowd or the face of a government of national unity, but it has been the projection of the search for bipartisan consensus. And in his 47-year career, Biden is known for being bipartisan. It is no accident that his first statement was: I want to be president of the entire nation.

Well these things in a democracy are being said by all the newly elected, but now they are based on the voices of Republicans willing to join your administration. For example: John Kasich, former Governor of Ohio, Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts, Jeff Flake, former Senator of Arizona, Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay. Therefore, a Republican Senate would allow you to act prudently on issues of taxation, environment, public health, judicial appointments. And ministerial appointments.

It is not said that Bernie sanders they really end up at work and Elizabeth Warren on health. And Biden is not said to regret it. That is why Wall Street has not gotten depressed. Expect no disgust. We will see it in the next few weeks. With a fixed date: December 14 i big voters the results will be gathered and formalized. Biden is not yet president-elect. He is a “projected” president, as the polls say. Opponent’s concession is missing Donald Trump. Concession, which in any case has no constitutional or legal significance. It will become superfluous once appeals are denied in four key states – Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia – before then. Georgia will have a special role. In January he will hold supplementary elections for two senatorial seats. On November 3 they were discovered. They have always been Republicans and are likely to continue to be. But the fight promises to be dramatic. The electoral mobilization is already impressive.

And it is not certain that Biden, here is the paradox, is glad to win. With a fully democratic Congress I would have more problems than with a bicolor Congress. The appointment, the latest in this endless electoral crush, is for January 5, 2021. Presumably earlier, in mid-December, the United States and the world will know if the nearly 78-year-old former Vice President Obama will actually return to the White House as president . Unless, of course, a shocking tale.

It happened in 2000. And before that, three more times in 232 years, since George Washington’s presidency. The first was in 1876, Hayes v. Tilden. The second in 1887, Cleveland against Harrison. The third in 1960 Kennedy against Nixon. But unlike 2000: it was the Supreme Court that attributed the victory to George W. Bush over Albert Gore. Will history repeat itself? At the moment, the odds are low. And meanwhile, the agony continues. The longer it goes on, the greater the risk that sooner or later it will lead to open fights in the streets. Trump has half an electorate behind him that is more angry than disappointed. And Biden called Sunday night for a return to normalcy and not a climate of civil war. He knows that the apocalypse does not end with Trump’s defeat. A one-term presidency has ended, about nine times in nearly two and a half centuries of American history.