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Hardly ever since Abraham Lincoln's oath of office in 1861 has the United States come so close to a domestic political conflict situation that Lincoln then outlined with a view to proponents of slavery:

“The government will not attack you.

There is only a conflict if you are the aggressor yourself.

Heaven has no oath to destroy the government, while I have the most solemn oath imaginable to preserve, protect and defend it. ”On Wednesday, however, Joe Biden could speak similarly.

The assault on the Capitol two weeks before Biden's oath of office did not have the same irreversible quality as the attack on Fort Sumter three months after the Lincoln oath.

But the storm was close to catching them.

The conflicts between the declared supporters of Donald Trump and their domestic political opponents over migration, gun ownership or “political correctness” are an expression of deeper fear on both sides.

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Conservatives and left-wing liberals alike have the feeling that the other side wants to subjugate them completely.

Both sides believe this is tantamount to a dictatorship or a secession - much like it was in Lincoln's time.

The US has always consisted of two worlds.

Settled at the same time by two separate groups of European colonizers - merchants one, Pietists the other - the political class split immediately after independence from a dispute between isolationists and great power theorists.

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Americans have seldom found real unity.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the task of rediscovering a fragile center that is as valuable as it is endangered.

Without the balancing power of this center, the heartland of the West cannot be preserved.

This text is from WELT AM SONNTAG.

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Source: WELT AM SONNTAG