Trump vs Biden: in an interview all the sense of the agony of American democracy

Life, it is well known, can sometimes be very cruel. And she was certainly cruel, two days ago, with Laura ingraham, historical presenter of Fox News as well as one of the oldest propagandists and fans of Trumpism in what, with few exceptions, has always been, with few exceptions, the cradle, the soundboard and, at the same time, the source of inspiration.

More so: a kind of uterus from which Donald J. Trump it is the proud birth, whose warm, welcoming, moist comfort Donald J. Trump always used to return whenever he felt the need for love and understanding. Or to show the world the best of you, finally away from the perfidious impertinence of the gods “Enemies of the people” (This is how Trump defines all the major media, which, in fact, are not Fox News.)

And right here, in Laura’s arms, Trump promptly returned last Sunday to explain in more colloquial and intimate terms what, in one of the longest and tedious acceptance speeches in American history, he had already said at the end of the Republican convention. In other words: how he and only he can save the United States from the hordes of criminals, subversives, arsonists and assailants who, under the banner of the “radical left”, the radical left today masters of the democratic party and of Joe biden, the affectionate “Trojan horse” acting as the presidential candidate, threaten the “American dream” and the very existence of the United States.

That Convention had been the arrival point and, at the same time, the starting point of the transfiguration of the Great Ancient Party, the party that was Abraham Lincoln – in the sect of the Trump cult. And the interview had to be a more familiar and reasoned appendix to this cult, a kind of confidential and concise summary.

That interview was supposed to (click here, here, and here for the full view) fear – so scared, because fear is the very lifeblood of Trump’s re-election campaign – and at the same time, trust and admiration. He had to contrast the lucid and implacable force of Donald J. Trump, man of Providence and “last bastion of Western civilization”, with the weakness by Joe Biden. But only the image emerged, not exactly unprecedented, of a president who doesn’t know what he’s saying. And that, in addition, says it in the worst way. In short: the image of the real Donald J. Trump.

“Who is maneuvering Joe Biden?”, was – bring the proverbial silver tray – the most important question Laura Ingraham asked Trump, taking up what had been the leitmotif of the Convention and evidently convinced that she would receive in exchange something that, at least vaguely, resembled to a political analysis. And this was the response of the man who for almost four years was – and for another four years has a good chance of remaining – the president of the richest and most powerful nation on the planet. Joe Biden, Trump said, is under the control “of people you’ve never heard of, moving in the dark shadow… ”.

Foreshadowing the proximity of the abyss, Laura at this point tried to pull the handbrake. “Mr. President – he suggested interrupting him – this sounds like conspiracy… “. In vain.” These are people who are in the square – continued Trump undaunted, regardless of logic and syntax – people who control the square. Someone gets on a plane in a certain city this weekend. And in the plane, it is almost completely full of thugs wearing these uniforms, black uniforms, with tools and this and that … What happened is a plane heading to any place full of anarchists, arsonists, looters and subversives … ”.

At this point, in a desperate turn of the wheel, Ingraham tried to change the subject, asking Trump about the police and the protests following the death of George Floyd and other unarmed “blacks”. Once again without luck, because Trump, more than ever himself, has found nothing better as an answer than to justify what happened with a macabre unconscious. golf metaphor. “They drown, like in a golf tournament, they miss a three foot putt …“They, the policemen, drown, like in a golf tournament, when they miss the last shot one meter from the hole.

Who else, if not Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, could think of a comparison of this nature? And also, season it with the verb “drown“Choking, which in context is, of course, getting excited, gasping for air, to lose control, referring to the police officers who kill. But which inevitably and ominously remembered as his by suffocation George Floyd is dead? Too much, even for a cult faithful like Laura. That – again and again in vain – he began to frantically wave the red cloth of danger in front of the last bastion of western civilization. “Mr. President, you are comparing all this with golf, this is what the media will say …”.

And indeed, the media said. Even if his saying has been primarily, in fact, a kind of unconditional surrender, a resigned fall of arms. “Too stupid to check the facts“Too stupid to be proven, so more than one specialist in the comparison between what was said and what was done (the fact checking, in fact) defined the conspiracy theories and parallels of Donald Trump.

Now there are only two months until the elections. It is impossible to predict the outcome.. But it is very likely that, whoever wins, is precisely this and other similar interviews that historians will one day have to refer to to illustrate how, shortly after the beginning of the second millennium, American democracy inevitably entered agony…