Turning the page of former US President Donald Trump without delay may be the biggest concern of the new president, Joe Biden, who may devote a great deal of energy in the coming days to change the policies of his predecessor, but there are aspects of America's policy that have changed irreversibly.

The French magazine Le Point says that some decisions of the Republican president will be canceled as quickly as he disappeared from the social networking site "Twitter", through which he has attracted the world's attention for 4 years, but his legacy will withstand the blows of the new administration and may last several years.

In an article by Luc de Barchi, the newspaper said that the new president will double the decrees to leave his mark, and the first chapters on his agenda will be the health crisis, climate emergency, economic recovery and immigration policy, but 7 things will remain difficult to change.

1 - A mountain of debt


Trump boasted, during his campaign in 2016, that he would eliminate federal debt in 8 years, but it was the other way around, as debts continued to increase during his presidency, and this year for the first time in peacetime will exceed the amount of wealth Patriotism.

The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that the debt will reach 104.4% of GDP for the fiscal year ending in late September 2021, compared to 98.2% last year.

The article explained that the successive stimulus packages since the beginning of the Corona epidemic have led to a significant deterioration in the public accounts of the United States, as the federal government deficit is expected to reach 3.1 trillion dollars this year, surpassing twice the previous record dating back to 2009, and the stimulus package The new proposals that the Democrats are preparing will lead to an even greater debt increase.

2 - Keeping justice under the influence of conservatives


Trump was able to fulfill the commitment he made to his voters, especially from the evangelical right, to appoint the largest possible number of conservative judges in federal courts, given that these judges are appointed for life, based on the proposal of the president and after the approval of the Senate And their influence will last for years.

Trump has succeeded - as the writer says - in appointing 3 judges to the Supreme Court during his tenure, which did not exceed 4 years, while the previous president, Barack Obama, appointed only two in 8 years.

As a result, the conservative majority in this main body became 6 out of 9 judges.

In other federal courts, the outgoing president has appointed about 250 judges, which means he has renewed a quarter of first instance courts and 30% of appeals courts with judges often selected for their commitment to fighting abortion.

3 - Anti-immigrant wall


Trump, who promised to build a "great and beautiful wall" to prevent "criminals" from coming from Mexico, declared that "the mission was accomplished", when he went last week to the southern borders of his country on his last official trip as president, but the numbers tell something More modest, says the writer.

Although Trump - as the report shows - does not claim more than the completion of 727 km of the wall, the length of the border between the United States and Mexico is 3145 km, which means that the task is far from being accomplished, although the number of illegal immigrants has decreased significantly in some places.

4 - Competing with China


Since the historic visit of former President Richard Nixon to China during the era of Mao Zedong in 1972, successive US presidents have chosen to detente with this country and encouraged the world to trade with it as an "uncomfortable" but necessary partner for global prosperity .

However, Trump - as the writer says - broke this consensus, and began a trade war with the People's Republic of China and imposed a series of political sanctions in addition to economic pressure, to punish it for human rights violations and stifling democracy in Hong Kong, which gave priority to competition rather than cooperation.

The confrontation accelerated during the Corona epidemic, which Trump took responsibility for China, and called it the "Chinese virus."

Although Biden will adopt a new tone in his relations with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, in essence he will not deviate from his predecessor's line, as he promises.

5 - Serving Israel


Trump

- with

his policies that do not take into account the caveats - changed the face of the Middle East, and while Biden promised to work to return his country to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, he will not change the other decisions taken by Trump, the most prominent of which was the transfer of the embassy in 2017 from Tel Aviv To Jerusalem, in implementation of an old demand of the Israeli governments.

The new president has promised that he will respect the agreements brokered by Trump and his administration to bring peace between Israel on the one hand, and the Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain and Sudan on the other hand, and it is even possible to bet that Biden will try to persuade Saudi Arabia to join these agreements.

6 - Soft power eroding


from the priorities that Biden cares about - as the writer says - restoring world leadership and restoring relations that were strained during the era of his predecessor with the allies, but the fractures caused by Trump are not easy to repair, especially since the shock - caused by the attack of hundreds of Trump supporters in Congress on Jan.6 - America's moral authority has been greatly shaken.

The study - which was conducted on 15,000 Europeans and just published by the European Council on Foreign Relations - confirms the deep and persistent mistrust that Europe views the United States with, even after Biden's election.

More Europeans see that they can no longer rely on anyone but themselves to defend the values ​​they hold dear, and question the American commitment to ensuring their security.

7 - Trumpism is not dead, and the


writer concluded that Trump's lesson, who was able to win and rule America for 4 years: by demagogic exploitation of voter anger, fueling polarization and resentment, and attacking opponents without embarrassment from lying, will not be in vain, and no people will be executed, whatever Trump's personal future, they take as an example. To try to seduce 74 million voters who voted for him last November 3.

Whatever Biden's desire for reconciliation, the new American civil war does not seem to be about to end, and this - as the writer sees it - may be the most enduring legacy, among all that Trump left.