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It was almost for the gust of wind to be felt from the global sigh of relief of the democratically minded people in the United States and the world, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20 at 12:00 and Kamala Harris as the first female vice president of the United States. America once again has a decent, level-headed, and balanced person as president, as well as an extremely talented and exciting vice president.
“Four more years” would have been horrible! One doesn’t even dare to think about what may have happened to the gurgling fool that Trump left behind the desk in the Oval Office for another four years!
Employees to Joe Biden says he was not at all concerned about Donald Trump and his monomaniacal denial of electoral defeat and his increasingly bizarre move. Since the November election, Biden has been confident that he has won and instead spent time preparing for the daunting tasks he faces. He is elegant and strong and must have annoyed the morbidly self-absorbed Donald Trump, not being the center of everything and everyone.
Now he becomes even less: deprived of his communication channels and his power, abandoned by most of his many heidduks. When Donald Trump left the White House and Washington, he did so with the same disregard for traditions, norms, decency, and decency that had characterized his, in many ways, disastrous four years in power. He did not admit defeat and was the first president in 152 years not to attend the inauguration of his successor. Trump ends up like most despots: incomprehensible, denier, aggrieved, abandoned, complaining, vindictive and without dignity and without resentment.
In the airport Joint Base Andrews gave the outgoing president a speech in front of a small crowd of windswept family and co-workers, a typical Trump speech.
What he had achieved himself was amazing, the best of all, something that no one had seen before, incredible. He claimed to have performed a medical miracle and took credit for developing the corona vaccine, although he did not even have a vaccination plan for the country. And promised to return somehow. So Donald Trump boarded the Air Force One presidential plane for the last time, with the lowest confidence figures in history and a Supreme Court indictment in his luggage. The plane took off for Florida to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”
The installation of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris became the complete opposite and proof that America is much more and better than Trumpism. It was a serious, elegant, dignified and hopeful ceremony in front of a small group of well-protected and socially distant guests. On the Mall, where hundreds of thousands of people would normally have followed the ceremony, 200,000 American flags were placed and in front of the Lincoln Memorial, lanterns honored all those who died in covid-19.
Joe Biden’s inaugural address was forceful and, despite all the problems, hopeful: American democracy has been challenged but won. People’s voices were heard, the president said. He spoke of a winter of great dangers but also of opportunities. He spoke of interracial justice and a desperate cry for the survival of the planet, to defeat white power and domestic terrorism, to defeat the virus. Above all, Joe Biden spoke of unity, unity as the only way forward in meeting the enormous challenges of the country and of himself as president of all Americans, even those who did not support him. And he prayed for the 400,000 who lost their lives in the pandemic.
“Together, we will write an American story of hope, not fear. About unity, not division,” President Biden said.
The number was one American Speech, a speech about America’s greatness and strength, with the conviction that America can be a beacon for all the peoples of the world. Not least in Europe, we may not always be so convinced of the American example, but most in democratic parts of the world would rather see a strong and predictable America governed by experience and competition than by wayward tweets. A United States that can be a counterweight to the power-hungry dictatorships of China and Russia. A United States that, with all its strength and talent, can get involved in the global climate crisis.
So it was good news when Joe Biden spoke to the world and said:
“America has been tested and we have become stronger. We will repair our alliances and reengage with the world.”
The new The American president also spoke of things that to a large extent are also valid in Sweden:
“We can join forces, stop yelling and tone it down … So let’s all start again today … Let’s start listening to each other again, to see each other. Show respect for others. Politics does not have to be a fire that it destroys and destroys everything in its path. All disagreement must not be a cause for large-scale war. We must reject the culture in which facts are manipulated or even manufactured.
Sweden doesn’t have the same rift in the abyss in the nation as the United States, and fortunately we don’t have Donald Trump. So it would be decent and reasonable not to paint dissidents as potentially deadly nationalists in the spirit of Trump. Swedish politics needs more factual issues and ideology and less demonization and trust. It is a grace to ask silently, but perhaps not to wait too long, because it does not benefit those who have power as their highest priority.
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