Even on the day the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are commemorated, the United States shows how far it is from the unity and unity it demonstrated twenty years ago.
Even calls to stick together cannot change that.
America today is far from cohesion, torn by political hostility and cultural conflicts.
Former President George W. Bush is right: American politics is just an appeal to people's anger, fear and resentment.
While President Biden and two Democratic predecessors met in a memorial service in New York and Bush gave a remarkable speech at the site of the crash of one of the hijacked aircraft in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump was conspicuous for his indignity. Once again. He called his successor a fool - because of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, which he himself had initiated with his agreement with the Taliban - and, on the anniversary of the great tragedy, pleased himself as a self-weeping “victim of electoral fraud”.
It is not primarily Trump's indecency that is regrettable. What is bad is how many millions of Americans continue to chase after the splitter. America survived the attack by Islamist terrorists; but the storm of incited “local” extremists on the Capitol has shaken belief in its democracy. Where did the unity go?