In the midterm elections, the commitment of women in defense of abortion has
allowed Biden to keep the traditional defeat of the incumbent president withinacceptable limits . The unpresentability of many Trumpian candidates,unpresentable and defeated by the vote, contributed to allowing this result.Nonetheless , with the conquest of the House of Representatives by theRepublicans, it is reasonable to expect an almost total blockage of President JoeBiden's legislative agenda, which depends on the ability to find majorities inboth chambers. ---- In the past it was not uncommon for consensus to be foundbetween presidents and majorities in party congresses opposites, but thebipartisan tradition faded in the 1990s and almost disappeared during thepresidency of Barack Obama. Biden should therefore govern with executive orders -often susceptible to being challenged in court - and prepare for hard battlesover those laws without the approval of which the government machine cannot function.Among these, the most relevant is the raising of the public debt ceiling, whichfollows a procedure that should be automatic; without the federal government itwould go into technical default because it could not service its debt and paywages. In the past the Republicans have used as a weapon of blackmail againstObama strongly conditioning him, especially in the final years of his mandate.The majority in the House gives the Republicans the opportunity to use theinvestigative powers of Congress and it is known that one of the objectives ofthe leader of the Republicans in the House, Kevin McCarthy, who will probablysucceed Nancy Pelosi, has promised an investigation into Hunter Biden, the son ofthe President, involved in unclear affairs in Ukraine and involved in the affairof biological weapons research laboratories.It is foreseeable that US politics will be characterized by high internalquarrels due to the polarization due to the radicalization of the RepublicanParty under the pressure of Donal Trump who has returned to run for President.And thatit can only be reflected in Biden's foreign policy, and this even if theannounced and feared all-out Republican victory has not materialized.Progressive electorates rallied in defense of abortion as evidenced by bothstates where abortion rights were actually at risk, the performance of Democratswas formidable, while disappointing in other cases. Another workhorse of theDemocrats has been the delegitimization of democratic practices by formerPresident Trump and his supporters, who continue to challenge the legitimacy ofthe election of Biden in 2020 and it is significant that despite high inflationthis was not enough to cause the Democrats to lose a majority in the Senateand the victory in the House of Representatives was also contained.However, this result forces Biden to adopt greater caution with respect toUkraine due to the high costs that support for the war entails. TheRepublican-led Congress will be very attentive to the budget even if thePresident will be able to continue to count on the support of the armsmanufacturers' lobby and of the highly skilled and well- endowed lobby thatsupports Ukraine and which, supported by the oligarchs and the government of thatcountry , continues to guide the administration's choices also by promisingexploitation rights on the mineral resources of the Donbass.It is not the case that all the commsentators signal the landslide victory ofFlorida governor Ron DeSantis, an ultra-conservative defined as a "moralist andbigoted", but who has not followed Trump in denouncing fraud and has a moderateposition on abortion that has put together an electoral coalition that alsoembraces a member of the Latino community, he is the rising star of theRepublican Party and is Trump's main contender for the nomination as presidentialcandidate in 2024. Instead, Trump-backed candidates have been defeated inPennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and perhaps Georgia preventing the Republicanconquest of the Senate. Trump's choices cost the Republicans the Senate , withserious damage to Trump's image.This electoral result seems to indicate that the era of polarization ofalignments is about to be overcome and that the American electorate, where seatsare effectively competitive, tends to prefer candidates who accept the rules ofthe democratic game, shun fundamentalist positions on issues such as abortion,and are open to articulating the vote in a less rigid and ideological sense, beit progressive or conservative.The fact remains that although the Democrats have lost the majority in the House,the real loser in these elections seems to have been him, Trump p.Enrico Paganinihttp://www.ucadi.org/2022/11/21/un-biden-di-medio-termine/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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