It has been a long time since the midterm legislative elections had such a big impact as the one just held. So much so that they are considered a kind of survey on the first half of the Biden administration but also on the figure of Donald Trump; a prelude to the 2024 presidential election, and a prelude to what could happen in the United States in the years to come. Analysts and party representatives, including the president, have repeatedly stated that they will determine democracy, the survival of basic civil rights and also for foreign policy, especially in relation to Europe and the conflict in Ukraine. These elections, the first of a national nature following the attacks on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, are being held amid a complex political, economic and social situation in which the level of partisan confrontation and sectarian discourse has reached alarming extremes. . To the extent that previous presidents and current White House tenants started wars without accusing each other, something hardly ever seen in this nation’s past, a role model for their liberal practices and restraint of the majority. leader. For Biden, Trump and in particular their MAGA Republican Party (Make America Great Again) “represents extremism that threatens the foundations of our republic (…) They do not live in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies” and warns that their attempts to undermine democracy could turn violent. Meanwhile, Trump has not hesitated in declaring that the president suffers from severe cognitive impairment, while a Republican National Committee leader argued that Biden was “a major divider and epitomizes the state of the Democratic Party today: one of division, rejection and hostility toward half of the Democrats. country”. It is not in vain to say that the current landscape of American democracy is one of volatility, ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity and that at times political struggles seem more like tribal clashes than debates of ideas.