Not all of us thought that Trump could win, largely due to the regrettable omissions of his predecessor, the almost former President Biden, such as abandoning the Afghans in the hands of the Taliban. After spending tens of billions of dollars there, on the idea of democratically normalizing a country famous for its bellicosity and currently for its more than harmful Islamist derivations.
And it wasn’t just Afghanistan. With Biden, the war in Ukraine was declared, already years old, and that in Gaza at its climax, depending on the new president and the usual Netanyahu. And that of Lebanon of Hezbollah and Israel, a little further north, and with characteristics of unusual violence.
They are inheritances from Biden, which Kamala Harris has suffered in her simplicity of the approaches derived from her predecessor and colleague in the White House, she as vice president, who was practically ignored throughout the four-year term 2021/2024.
We could continue with Biden’s stories, including the one in which the “invisible hand” moving the economy did not go badly until the last year. But everything was complicated by inflation, the loss of purchasing power, the high cost of medical insurance, etc. What bothers citizens the most when voting.
For the rest, Trump has had four years of systematic preparation for his return to the White House, as they say, with admiration on the part of the most demanding electoral experts, alongside what some think has been nothing more than a string of provocations and bad political language.
President Trump, with a significant majority, and just over 51 percent of the popular vote, enters a second term of non-continuity, in which great surprises seem to be in store.
We will continue next week.