On Biden-Harris’s Inauguration Day

Vasilina Orlova
1 min readJan 20, 2021

I am delighted the people in America delivered a crushing blow to Trumpism. Until a certain point, I found it difficult to believe that it was possible and was preparing for the worst.

My conviction is that during second Trump’s term the concentration camps would have turned into full-blown extermination camps. Given the disastrous denial of COVID-19, many more people would have died, not only tortuously but entirely unnecessary.

The struggle for power was incredible and went right through the bodies of millions of people participating in or witnesses the events. The American informational field was a war zone for the last two weeks, ever since the day of the storm of the Capitol. To be sure, the previous months and years did not feel particularly safe either.

I am delighted to have hope in America which I do not think I had before. At some point, I was pushed to realize that the absence of hope is murderous, the apathy is not impartial, and the skepticism is complicit.

America is indeed a shiny and forever renewed promise of America. A promise, you could say, always postponed, but, nevertheless, alluring.

I will be restless until the reminders of Trumpism are suffocated. No one should escape responsibility.

But today, I am celebrating the people who defeated Trump and, if necessary, will do so again. May Trump and everything that he represented be razed to the ground worldwide.

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