On January 6, as if it were a perverse Three Kings Day gift, fanatical followers of Donald Trump, outgoing US president, surprisingly stormed the Capitol, the emblematic seat of the United States Congress, which was holding a session to corroborate the choice of opponent Joe Biden. From his Twitter account, Trump justified the historical disorder, indicating that it corresponded to a protest for a huge fraud that stole the November 2020 elections. This instrument of social networks served as an unusual means to fire members of his cabinet, threaten dignitaries from other countries, run over adversaries and unsettle the modern world with their “antics.” The last, a tragic occurrence of violence incited by the president himself of the most powerful country in the world, although in frank and threatening competition. The number of 5 dead, and many wounded, are figures that gravitate to the blond head of the controversial ruler, who altered countless historical positions of the United States in organizations around the world, putting in suspense balances and hegemonies achieved since the end of the World War II. The loss of prestige to which President Trump exposes the nation that he ruled in a very peculiar way for four years is enormous. Institutionality, laws, norms and the position as “leaders” of universal democracy are undermined. Today the Americans resemble any third world country of retarded development, violating a sacred place of the democratic system of that country. The shame and repudiation that Republicans feel with the actions of their party partner, places him in a difficult political position and as a simple citizen. We Dominicans already have dark experiences when the ruler insists on leading a nation with antics, narrow criteria and gross contempt for the opinion of others. Perhaps as a result of popular sentiment, that same day it was learned of the election in Georgia, a southern state with a dark history of racial discrimination, of the election of Raphael Warnock, as the first black senator to represent that state. At the same time a young Jew was elected, Jon Ossoff, the first Senator in a southern state since 1880. The significant thing is that the Democrats will have control of the Senate and the House of Representatives, equivalent to our House of Representatives, which will not it has been in place since 1995. It gives Joe Biden enormous possibilities to propose structural reforms and to be able to name his partisans, with little partisan opposition. Trump has had the “power” to unify his opponents while giving a colorful brush of discredit to the party that brought him to power. Was this the beginning of a self-coup? The FBI identifies and apprehends participants, for a few days. The gringos are very secretive and it is about their own interests… Let’s hope.
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