BHL – American Days

Estrange atmosphere, on Capitoline Hill. Rooms closed. Maximum security at entrances. The crowd on sunny days, but filtered. Normal, tells me Steve Israel, lookalike of Joe Biden who was, for seventeen years, a representative of the State of New York and who directs the very academic Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell University. America, he explains to me, is still under the attack of January 6, 2021. It is her February 6, 1934. A September 11 against the institutions. And democracy, since, lives under high tension.

The name of President Zelensky is on everyone’s lips congressmensenators, their staffers. To the point of eclipsing the other allies of the United States? To put them in rivalry with the Ukrainians? This is the risk, agrees the chosen one…

Illustration: dusault for “the point”