For Jean-Michel Cazabat, the adopted New Yorker from Border for 30 years, the atmosphere is really deleterious. “It’s even worse than four years ago, here everyone is super-tense. Even if meetings are in theory forbidden, there are more or less spontaneous demonstrations by supporters of Trump and Biden. If we add to this the growing power of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, we have all the ingredients for a social explosion. Moreover, here, everyone expects riots, the luxury shops near home. I, in SoHo, have been barricaded for several days, the slightest spark can ignite the powder. ” What explains this outbreak of fever? “Trump is a very divisive president. We hear that under his tenure, the American economy has never been so good. But everything has been done for the rich. So, the country is not divided, it is divided , fractured. And here, when it’s like that, it ends up farting bad. At the start of the campaign, Biden was ahead, but Trump seems to be ending strong. Anyway, whatever the outcome, the authorities fear massive and very violent riots, with breakage. Because of the face of this presidential election and of course the Covid crisis, here, we do not have confinement as in France, but everyone is self-reliant. confines. I have never seen a Halloween party in New York with nobody in the streets. Here, this disease is all the more scary as the social coverage is really minimal. Coming back to the presidential election, New- York is all for the Democrats, but Trump fans are no longer in hiding … “
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