midterms

Le Regard Libre N° 45 - Diego Taboada

The mid-term elections in the United States have highlighted the fracture separating two Americas. More generally, the situation in the United States may also reflect the moral erosion of an empire that is steadily losing influence.

After long, intense weeks of campaigning in the USA, the ballot boxes have spoken. The Democrats have regained control of the House of Representatives (lower house), lost in 2010, but the Senate remains in Republican hands. There were few surprises this time around, unlike the shock of Donald Trump's election two years earlier. Democrats and progressives of all stripes rejoiced in their «victory», which they believe will finally enable them to put the brakes on a president who until then had no real institutional opposition. The question of launching an investigation into Mr. Trump and his relations with Russia finally becomes possible. More symbolically, the media will remember the election of a good number of women, often from ethnic minorities - Native Americans, Muslims or even openly homosexuals.