The control of power

Predictions are risky, especially when you try to predict the future. Little did Donald Trump think that in the first two years of his second term he would lose control of both chambers of Congress. The polls already foreshadowed this, but he was sure of the winner's argument that he had created with lies and half-truths.

North American democracy has many imperfections, but its system of checks and balances has made it the longest and still the most solid in the world.

Alexander Hamilton was one of the inspirers of the Constitution, along with James Madison and John Jay. In The Federalist Papers they wrote that “democracy does not consist of entrusting all power to those who win the elections, but rather establishing limits so that no one can exercise it without controls.”

For this, it is necessary that any public power has to be accountable and audited by voters periodically. If men were angels, no government would be necessary, Hamilton wrote.

Trump will not change his triumphalist speech or his contempt for critical journalism. But his defeat in the midterm elections is due to propaganda, false words and half-truths. The “alternative reality” is pure virtuality. It doesn't exist.

Politics in democracy is not a set of brilliant stories prepared in communication offices, but rather knowing how to manage the conflicting interests of citizens. With facts, with budgets, with kept promises and with civilized treatment with the adversary or the different one. The humiliation of Zelensky has not been erased from the global imagination.

Trump will pay for the errors and excesses committed in foreign policy by treating authoritarian regimes as friends and allies as pariahs. The war against Iran has hit people's pockets and the rude treatment of its critics is not part of the mood of the American people.