The dust has not yet completely settled after this “historic” debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Commentators of all stripes have not stopped highlighting the president’s poor performance, a cause of sadness among Democrats, perhaps a subject of mockery among Trumpists. Obviously, it was very distressing to see Biden stumble, a victim of his language handicap, his cold, the fatigue imposed by a senseless task… and no doubt his age. But, for my part, I found Donald Trump’s aggressive and mendacious delirium a thousand times sadder to watch. Let’s move on from the character’s rudeness, his pettiness, his stupidity, because after all, we don’t expect a candidate to be a paragon of virtue or a Nobel Prize winner. But we must worry about the announced cruelty and his assumed dishonesty, lying, as Solzhenitsyn said, being a key element of any dictatorship. If it was distressing to suffer Trump’s ineptitudes, it was just as sad to hear commentators talk about a “strong performance” of the Republican candidate instead of being horrified by it and denouncing his speech and his attitude, which, in a normal world, should have disqualified him forever. So we see not only poor people intoxicated by the gibberish of a brute, but also supposedly responsible elected officials and supposedly intelligent commentators who bow down before a charismatic monster. A scenario that we have already seen in the 20th centurye century, with the one that made the trains arrive on time or the other that built beautiful highways – it didn’t give very good results.
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