White, black and Trump

That Trump finally gave in may have made him feel worse among his opponents than among his supporters

That Trump used Twitter again to define his political actions is no longer surprising. That he did so to almost certify a defeat that the election counts sustained, perhaps a little more surprising. However, in the end it is shown that this whole pantomime was nothing more than a story. Once again the story, even though what was at stake was no more and no less than the governance of the world's leading power.

Many people actually hoped that Trump had held on to the position. In their view, this threat, which has been echoed so much by the media, was also part of the struggle for the rhetorical framework in which US policy has been moving lately. And, with it, part of world politics. However, the current US president has shown more respect for the US democratic system, through twittering and judicialisation, than many other national leaders have done for their respective leaders. Some of them, framed and protected by this progressive theorist who personifies, in leaderships such as Trump's, everything that, although it does not sound reactionary, does not sound progressive either. Two tiny ends of the board whose shouting silences the enormous majority, who have no choice sometimes between the bad and the worse. The Huns and the others, as a certain writer put it.

There will undoubtedly be a transition in the White House. However, those tens of millions of votes that opted for Trump, that 50% of people who support Viktor Orbán in Hungary, or the supporters of the Polish government who fight on the streets with the opposition demonstrators, will still be there. And that, however much the self-proclaimed political side of good, which brings together all these new political tribes, wins this battle of the tale in which we are immersed, is not going to change it. On the contrary, it will continue to feed this escalation of affronts. Many of the statues and symbols that have suffered from this recent offendidism are now paying for supposed affronts from centuries ago, because yes, when it matters, there is memory.

In Biden's hands is now not only the pen on the table in the Oval Office, but also an almost literal half of Americans who have preferred a man who did govern through Twitter but who leaves the United States in an economic dynamic whose positivity seems incontestable. His image, kneeling and fist raised in front of the crowd, is not a humiliation, as some say, but neither is it an example of how to manage a climate that is prone to sentimentality. Not everything is black or white. Now that the support of the former has grown - albeit slightly - in Trump and decreased in the latter, it is a good time to remember.