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Donald Trump understands that the presidency of the United States is an extension of his television program in which he fired whoever he disliked. He wants to return. He believes that by fueling the division of the Americans he could do it.

The outgoing president fired up and launched his supporters in a desperate assault on Congress and even the American vice president suffered the wrath of Trump for not bowing to violating the Constitution. That madness caused Joe Biden to assume the presidency guarded by 25,000 members of the National Guard in the middle of a maze of barricades and fences. Trump downgraded American politics to its lowest level. He was close to attempting a coup. He couldn’t because he didn’t have a president to approve it. The United States Constitution does not set the time when a president can seek a second chance and Trump lets him see that he wants to return. In his farewell he said that he would return, although he did not say how, but his adversaries are warned and they put firewood against him to fan the fire of rejection. Trump has the persecution of the Democrats who want him annihilated and of a sector of Republicans aspiring to run. It is between two fires.

Democrats have a busy agenda. The coronavirus affects health, education and the economy and they must stop it. Biden will try to erase Trump’s management administratively, but it will be difficult for him to nationalize eleven million undocumented immigrants. There is talk of a Trump trial for inciting violence for the assault on the legislative palace where a policeman and four mobsters died, but this could be another circus that culminates without a spectacular end.

The United States must rebuild itself to be relaunched. They have to find themselves in harmony to face the challenges that this new decade brings, but without Trump. That presidency flew by.

The events of January 6, where a group of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the capitol with violence, were glimpsed in the continuous speeches where the former president did not accept defeat. Before the elections, he maintained the narrative of a possible fraud through votes by mail and after November 3, 2020, a denial of the results. Speeches that go against democratic principles.

Joe Biden is officially the president of the United States of America, but Trumpism could continue. This is because it responds to the needs of a part of the American population who wanted to be heard and who identified themselves with Donald Trump.

Currently, the great task of the new president is to unite the nation, giving answers to those conservative groups that were affected by globalization and deindustrialization. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) caused the loss of 2.4 million jobs in the US manufacturing industry, and the manufacturing price index fell by almost 8% between 2000 and 2006 On the other hand, Trump’s rejection of abortion and same-gender marriage assured him the vote of evangelical Christians, who defend biblical principles.

Responding to the needs of this part of the population was the objective of the outgoing president. It matters little if to achieve this he put into action an isolationism and iron protectionism. The priority was internal, ceasing to invest in war conflicts. In fact, it did not carry out any major war as it did in past administrations, with the exception of the attack on Soleimani. The ongoing contest against China was purely commercial and part of the narrative of making America great again.

To pursue its objectives, it abandoned its traditional European allies, withdrawing troops from Germany, justifying it with the high cost of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It also broke the multilateral rules that the United States itself had created, suspending funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) for managing the pandemic. He came out of the Paris Agreement on climate change and denied the severity of the virus caused by COVID-19, waging a battle for the story against the People’s Republic of China.

All this to explain the roots of Trumpism and why it could continue even though Trump has lost the elections, which would be dangerous, because the Republican Party has become a far-right party, with extremism and nationalism that promote disorder. and protests.

The social problems that paved the way for Trump’s arrival are exacerbated by the pandemic, thus Joe Biden assumes the presidency at a very sensitive time in American history. With a pandemic continuing to ravage the population and a severe economic crisis, he now faces the second impeachment trial of his predecessor. In addition, the election results have left a divide that impeachment could help worsen, fueling violence from sectors close to Trump.

The professor and expert in international relations Iván E. Gatón has affirmed that: the unfortunate incident that occurred in the Capitol shakes democracy and suggests that the American political class must be reviewed, both Democrats and Republicans must realize that this situation was created by their excessive ambitions. In addition, he expressed that it would be very negative if filled with worldly pleasures, having lost the common vision of society, they set out on the path of revenge and rivalry.

This corroborates that democracy as a form of government is going through one of its worst moments, therefore, the priority must be to safeguard it. To achieve this, it is necessary to analyze the root causes that resulted in the arrival of Donald Trump to power and give concrete answers to a part of the population that does not feel represented, leaving aside the power struggle between both parties.

Like the typewritten pornographic novels that circulated from hand to hand with grave secrecy among the adolescents in my town, the adults passed among them in the barbershops, with no less eagerness, a brochure whose cover featured a bearded Jew whose On the back shone, with Luciferian gleams, a Star of David.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This pamphlet, of poor but convincing inventions, exposed the plot of a conspiracy woven by the Jews to subjugate the world. No one, neither in a place as far from the centers of power as Masatepe, nor in any other place on earth, would escape those slimy tentacles; And if even the tycoon Henry Ford, who had paid out of his abundant pocket for the printing of entire editions of the brochure in the United States, believed in this fable concocted with childish skill, how could he not convince a cabinetmaker from my town, or a breeder of fighting cocks of those that congregated in the gathering of the barber shops.

Hitler also believed, or pretended to believe, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which served as an ideological pretext for the extermination of millions of Jews. When I came across that brochure, which still does not lose its validity today, I am talking about the fifties of the last century. At that time the horror of the Nazi concentration camps was already more than known, even in small towns like mine, but the eagerness of ordinary people to be part of the serious secrets that the protocols revealed was much stronger.

Simple and literate, we are all children of myth, and it is always tempting to think in terms of a fable; In that swampy terrain, conspiracy and prophecy are at ease to explain the daily occurrences of the world, from natural catastrophes to wars; no wonder the Prophecies of Nostradamus revive each beginning of the year to reveal the ever-threatening contingencies of the future.

And the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which justified the pogroms in tsarist Russia, and the Nazi gas chambers, not only do not lose their validity today, in the middle of the twenty-first century, but also engender postmodern descent.

All the fables invented by the militants of the QAnon sect of the far right in the United States, belong to the same lineage fed in childishness that leads millions to believe that under our feet there is a world of underground chambers that can be reached through the sewers, where famous figures, who hide evil behind their glamor, hold covens to manipulate our lives at will; when in reality the manipulators are the ones who make those legends that belong to the best of the worlds of comics drawn in pictures.

We are at the height of the era of alternate realities. The world is not the one we think we see, but the one that those who steal votes and steal children, sworn enemies of the Trump creed, treacherously teach us. And that other world that we do not see, but from which evil geniuses control our minds, responds to the mechanisms that are natural to cheap fiction. And it is governed by secret keys, as in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

Not that I want to blame Dan Brown for QAnon’s existence, but the credibility of a dedicated reader of his is the same. On one occasion, when that novel was in full swing, I was standing in the Church of Saint Sulpice in Paris in front of Delacroix’s painting, Jacob Fighting the Angel, when the voice of the guide surrounded by a group of tourists took me away from my contemplation: they had traveled there, from Ohio or from North Dakota, with the sole purpose of seeing the place where Silas, the albino of Opus Dei, searches for the key to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.

QAnon fanatics look for hidden clues in everything, even detergent ads on television screens. Sinister keys, threads of the conspiracy of which they feel victims, directed by Hollywood stars, and whose head is the greatest villain, George Soros, Grand Master of the Deep State, worse than Lex Luthor, Superman’s arch-enemy.

It is a comic cartoon, but with consequences. One of the QAnonianos shot into the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington in 2016, before the scared eyes of the poor owner of the premises. The aggressor had been convinced by his confreres that a network of satanic rites dedicated to pedophilia was running from there, according to what the sect discovered in the text of emails that contained coded messages. At the head of that diabolical network was none other than Hilary Clinton, then a candidate for the presidency for the Democratic party.

QAnon members, who communicate through networks, must take a solemn oath as “digital soldiers”. Listed in FBI records as potential terrorists, their leaders were visible in the assault on the Capitol in Washington this January. And these ringleaders, as in the comics that are truly respected, answer to an incognito Supreme Chief who is inside the White House itself, next to Trump, and who leaves traces through the networks to be found by the soldiers of the cause of racial purity.

That the QAnon belong to a comic strip can be seen by their outfits, such as the Yellowstone Wolf, with its Viking horns, spear at the ready and wrapped in a bison skin, and that now in prison he is demanding organic food.

And of course the QAnon believe in flying saucers, and aliens, of course developed intergalactic civilizations are ruled by white supremacists. It would be more.