The Democrats have won the American presidential elections, in both senses of the term: the Democratic Party won and the true democrats won. We are still assimilating it, but, from what has been seen so far, it does not seem that the transition of power and the eviction of Donald Trump from the White House will be peaceful, which foreshadows what many of us fear, that Trumpism will continue to be alive and well, because, unfortunately, the causes that motivate and explain it remain standing.
Biden has come to power fraudulently! Biden is an illegitimate president! Are these accusations familiar to you? The anti-democrats and the American reactionary forces pave the way from which they intend to exercise the opposition in the coming years. Or should we say the ground from which they are going to fight, with all the weapons at their disposal, the president-elect of the most powerful nation on Earth? With a false accusation as their banner, Trump and his followers announce that they are going to continue making coexistence in their country and throughout the world unbearable.
However, many of us expect changes, such as the realignment of the United States in its relations with the European Union and Spain, in its position on climate change or on the global fight against the pandemic caused by COVID-19. But, with the arrival of the Biden-Harris tandem to the US government, it is also to be expected that the president of the Community of Madrid or the Spanish far right will lose steam, and, with them, the extreme right-wing populism that sustains their way of understanding the world, servile to the powerful and cruel and indifferent to the weak and needy.
While the victory of Democrat Biden is important, for what it symbolizes internally and for the rest of the world, I want to emphasize that the loss of oxygen from the United States will not make extreme right-wing populism give up. We must never lose sight of the fact that we are facing an economic and social cataclysm as a result of the coronavirus health crisis, and that the hopelessness of the humble is the food of those who yearn for authoritarian solutions. It is our job, the job of true democrats, to continue unmasking and fighting those who seek to undermine coexistence, the rule of law and the social advances achieved by the popular classes in our country from within.
Trumpism and the extreme right are defeated with greater doses of democracy and from the unity of political forces, with public health measures that save lives, protecting vulnerable families, safeguarding companies and the self-employed, and with policies aimed at reactivating the economy and employment. To this end, we have two powerful tools at our disposal: the European reconstruction fund and the 2021 General State Budget. By efficiently addressing these tasks and generating confidence in public institutions and in the Welfare State, we will block the way to the propagators of hoaxes and the sowers of hatred. No one will do it for us.
Fco. Manuel Fajardo Palarea, senator of the PSOE for Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
Manuel Fajardo