United States: the nation against the republic
The collision is inevitable in 2020. The nation is woven with subjective perceptions and stereotypes. The republic, with laws that respond to social changes. The nation gives us the platonic idea of “the Americans”: they are white, blond, independent and brave, presumably with clear eyes, idealistic, nationalistic, enterprising. They worship the Christians’ god, are heterosexuals and communicate in English. The republic, at least today, claims that “the Americans” are of different colors and mixtures, believers or non-believers in any god, and are subject to rules or social conventions that do not take sexuality or gender into account. This dichotomy will reappear in the 2020 elections between Donald Trump, quintessence of the nation, and whoever is elected as Democratic candidate among the dozen who aspire to be the White House’s tenant. There are, old, young and mature people; Christians, Jews, atheists (in pectore) and agnostics; whites, blacks, half-breeds and Hispanics; gays decorated for their repeated presence in wars, men and women who are “average” south of the waist; radicals and conservatives; socialists and social democrats; billionaires, millionaires and middle classes; extremely educated people and less studious beings.

