ROME – “No democracy can survive the rate of physical and verbal violence that the US has been expressing for some time now. And considering that we are not talking about any democracy but about the “leading country of the West”, the consequences could be an international cataclysm. Faced with all this, we continue to do politics as if nothing were happening, using the same categories as the last thirty years, as if the world were not on fire. I do not know if this self-destructive spiral of the West, which manifests itself through increasingly extreme positions and unwillingness to compromise, can be stopped. The moral duty of anyone who does politics with awareness of the historical process in which we are, is to try”.
So on social media Charles Calenda (photo), leader of Action, commenting on the attack on former US President Donald Trump.
