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CULTURAL CHRONICLES. A politician is not primarily a person, but a wandering symbol of his office. But in the last four years with Donald trump As president, the entire world has been forced to witness how much a destructive personality can mess up his suit. The first thing that strikes me when I hear the incoming vice president Kamala harris giving her first speech after the democratic electoral victory is this: she is not talking about herself. She speaks of the American people, the movements that have sprung up in protest of Trump’s ad hoc decisions, his disdain for dissidents, and his hysterical slaps with alternative facts.
Biden / Harris are not gods and will certainly make decisions based on more than human love. But the dream of a future with Harris as president – a dream that really no longer seems unrealistic – is the dream of a leader who wants more than to stretch his peacock feathers and tighten his muscles, a leader with perfect balance. between trust and humility, burning. rhetorical capacity, substance in their choices for the country and the world.
Of course, Vice President Harris, like all other public figures, is more or less fiction. But it does not matter. Today I think every time I come across a fancy asterisk: “I’m talking, Mr. Vice President. I’m talking.” As Kamala said Mike pence when he tried to interrupt her televised debate. Inside me, I copy his quiet authority. His minimal, barely perceptible, smiling side gaze at the audience; “I know you see how he behaves. We know that they are not going to interrupt us.”
In another four years, I hope it’s time for Harris to put on the world’s heaviest suit and take over.
We. She makes me feel like a part of her “we”, even though I’m not even American. It’s Obama’s sentiment again, the one I didn’t think we’d experience again: we’re changing the world. If we can! It’s a bit sentimental, in a very American way, but at the same time completely true. Kamala looks like a Hollywood star, but this is not a movie. It is world history written by his hands clearly gesturing.
Perhaps the interlude with The Trumpster was inevitable. Progressive development in the United States was too rapid for some ethnic groups, Hillary went to full of herself to be a winning presidential candidate in 2016, and Trump took the entire world from behind when we were most certain that the future belonged to those who previously had less to say.
Today, when the world is shocked by climate denial, white power flirtation and the wall in disgrace, I can only hope that we have learned something from this political walk on Golgotha. Yes, in another four years, I hope it’s time for Harris to put on the world’s heaviest suit and take over. if you can, Kamala. No one will interrupt you again. And no one should interrupt people who have been afraid of Donald Trump for four years.
Martina Montelius is an employee of Expressen’s culture page. She is also a writer, playwright, and theater director at Brunnsgatan 4.
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