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ANALYSIS/ USA, Democrats are turning the page: The party of clans and dynasties is in decline

2024-08-23 21:21:07Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MASSIMO GAGGI
ANALYSIS/ USA, Democrats are turning the page: The party of clans and dynasties
Barack and Michelle Obama

By Massimo Gaggi – Corriere Della Sera

Not just Joe Biden's swan song with the passing of the baton to Kamala Harris.

Four magmatic, highly emotional days in the United arena have marked a more profound change than the simple farewell of a leader who is too old to face a new term. It is the entire gerontocracy of a party that has always been more complex than the Republican one that is reaching its twilight. And with it the party of clans and dynasties is falling.

Could have tried to create another dynasty - after that of Kennedy and the Clintons - Michelle Obama. And many, enthralled by her speech — the most lucid, impassioned, captivating of the entire convention, filled with humanity, pride and civic passion — are saddened by the resignation of the former first lady.

But Michelle has always rejected the idea of ​​a return to the White House, and the other night, with the energy she spread in the Chicago arena, she made Barack Obama, who spoke behind her, look like a politician no longer capable of heartwarming: a leader aware of the changes taking place, who, after joking about his rapid aging, gave a politically sharp but unconvincing speech, sealed by the somewhat pathetic attempt to revive the slogans of 2008 -es, in the feminine case: "Yes, she can".

Then Bill Clinton tries once again to be a showman: he largely ignores the text of the written speech, speaks for almost half an hour instead of the expected 12 minutes, but his face is strained, almost unrecognizable, and he utters the best jokes in a weak voice.

Nancy Pelosi enters the scene a little later: she is more alive and dynamic than Clinton despite her 84 years. She was the director of concentric pressure on Biden. accompanied by the gestures of her bony hands.

And then the surprisingly warm, empathetic, articulate Hillary Clinton, finally at peace with herself for admitting she's reached the end of her political life.

And Bernie Sanders, very sober, despite his age of 82: aware of his transformation into an icon of the radical left, now led by the generation of Ocasio Cortez, increasingly mature, shrewd, pragmatic.

It is an epochal change: clans and dynasties have produced clientelism, but they have also been a valuable unifier for a party that has always had to hold together very different souls.

What will be the structure of the new democratic resource?

The lions of the "party of governors" - the black one from Maryland Wes Moore, the white one from Kentucky Andy Beshear who is liked by the moderates of "Deep America", the Jew from Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro, the progressive from Michigan Gretchen Whitmer - will be able join?

And Kamala Harris, now flying on the wings of enthusiasm but only recently beginning to build a network of alliances in the party, especially around birthright freedom, will have the strength to hold together an increasingly multifaceted coalition in the great mix of ethnicities, groups, cultures, religious beliefs, gender identities?

Karl Rove, the Republican strategist behind George W. Bush's victories, warned Trump: "Normally, Democrats are enthusiastic, they fall in love, while Republicans are disciplined, they line up. This time the left seems as enthusiastic as it is disciplined: if it stands behind Kamala, there will be trouble for the right".

That of joy, hope and tolerance can become the new unifier of Kamala's party.

But for now what guarantees unity is above all the specter of Trump 2.

And the replica, as Barack Obama said last night, is usually worse than the original.

 


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