DONALD DUCK | OnTuscia Quotidiano Viterbo and province

In November, voting will take place in the United States of America and the electoral campaign phase, which is the primary of the Democratic Party, that is, of the party that does not govern, or rather that does not express the President, has started a few weeks ago.

Only a rich, complex country, with a peculiar roots in its historical and political traditions, can afford two very expensive election campaigns, the first to choose the antagonist of what in the second is going to do the traditional double mandate to the White House.

All this, instead of agitating and making the citizens nervous, reassures them, because it recalls the modus operandi of the Founding Fathers of one of the most ancient democracies, even if it is more complicated since the counting of votes and sometimes it is packaged as for the election of Bush II.

To win it takes money, a lot, or to be or seem new and winning, as for Obama, better still both, money and charisma, as for JFK.

This time the game seems obvious on the reconfirmation of Donald Trump and also of the Latin saying: nomen omen, in the name destiny, in fact Trump means: trump, triumph, last resort, good guy, good man.

The traditional republican red and democratic blue colors, at the end of the previous votes, were distributed on the map of the United States in a clear and explanatory way: the first in the center and the second along the two coasts; that is, the winning democrats in the rich, evolved and hyperurbanized states, the conservative GOP (Great Old Party) in the central rural states, extended, unlucky, the so-called belly of the country.

Rivers of ink have flown to describe and understand the victory of a very rich tycoon who has become the standard-bearer of metallurgical workers, farmers who produce wheat, corn, soybeans, marginalized people from the suburbs: it is populism beauty! of mass identification in those who promise politically incorrect things, use aggressive and simplified languages, find discounted scapegoats, lash out against the so-called elites to whom it is easy to blame the faults of an unsatisfactory personal and generalized situation.

The Donald endeavored and to a large extent succeeded, to keep in a slavish way what he had promised, even at the cost of disrupting relations with Europe, China and whatever else threatened Great America, from commercial competitors to migrants Mexicans.

He boasted, rightly or wrongly, about the occupation and defense of those classes that populate the American “belly”.

The democratic “head”, on the other hand, has split into two leaders who probably embody only a piece of a winning position: Bernie Sanders exaggerates with his pills of socialism without a real class roots, in the name of a generic appeal to young people; Joe Biden, another 70-year-old old man, struggling with what little democratic politicians have produced since the sub prime crisis.

The reality at the time of populism is that the left, all over the world, after the neoliberal disbandment, has never recovered and has never given itself a new decent identity.

Once again, unless surprises are possible in an election campaign of almost a year, Donald Trump will win the Donald Duck, the many Disney Donald Duck, immersed in a gray, fragile, bored, uncertain and often unfortunate everyday life.

Francesco Chiucchiurlotto