One country, two souls

The cultural war in USA did not start with donald trump. It was a pending account, something like a stick of dynamite waiting for someone to light the fuse. According to Jorge Arguello“a redeemer of the common people, victim of a corrupt political elite installed in the swamp of Washington” that he offered himself “as a gladiator willing to fight the worst threats. “All varnished by nationalist slogans and ultra-conservative positions.” The indicated one was an outsider accepted by the republican machinery who “promised to expand the electoral base without abandoning ideological radicalization.”

It was Trump, says Argüello, twice Argentine ambassador to USApermanent representative before the UN and ambassador in Portugal and Cape Verdeamong other charges, in his book The two souls of the United States. Journey to the heart of a fractured society. The president of the Open Embassy Foundation emphasizes the recent past. Which is related to the imminent future: the revival in November of the duel between Trump and Joe Bidencatapulted January 6, 2021 for the attack of the trump boys against him Capitol to inhibit the victory of the Democratic president.

The United States became a country with two souls, like other regions not exempt from the impact of external factors.

An unfortunate day for democracy, marked and highlighted by Argüello in his book, in which he asks: “Did this idea of ​​the exceptional nature of USA and another phase of uncertainty opened, probably unprecedented? Without a doubt: “The Trump era and its ruptures, in particular, exposed rawly that state of mind of the entire society. The general stress introduced by the COVID-19 “It only accentuated the parameters of polarization.” Keyword. The emotional blackout led to the pandemic of bad mood. Without respecting borders. Even less in the so-called navel of the world, with its imperial vocation and its isolationist temptation.

USA It became a country with two souls, like other regions not exempt from the impact of external factors. Argüello explains it: “If the invasion of Ukraine for Russia and the neutral relations of China, India and the global south were not enough, the striking rearrangements of 2023 in Asia and Middle East -with Washington as a spectator until Palestinian-Israeli outbreak in the Gaza Strip– fed the idea that we are at the end of an exceptional unipolar era and the beginning of another of a multipolar nature, where there will be neither one nor two exclusive protagonists, but several and varied ones.”

A new world in the words of Argüello, president of the Group of 77 and China in 2011 and sherpa by Argentina in it Group of 20 between 2019 and 2023. Witness in situ the change in both USA like in Europe and other confines and author, among other books, of Dialogues about Europe (2014), Urgent American History (2016) and Who rules the world? (2018). That question, who rules the world?, continues to prevail in 2024, the year in which almost half of the planet’s population goes to the polls. North Americans included.

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