The president-elect of the United States has achieved his goal of obtaining a majority in both houses of Congress. Photo: Instagram Alma Plus Tv

By Guillermo Alvarado

The president-elect of the United States has achieved his goal of obtaining a majority in both houses of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate, and his next step was to demand unconditional loyalty from the legislators for any idea he may have during his second term.

Although it is not a pleasant fact, it must be accepted that the tycoon will have a power that he did not achieve during his first term, since in addition to the Capitol he swept the so-called key states during the elections, winning the electoral college as well as the popular vote.

However, it will be necessary to wait for the first months of his term to know whether these circumstances will give him a blank check in the exercise of his mandate, or whether there will be pockets of resistance that will prevent him, or at least make it difficult for him, to do what he wants.

A first sign will come when the Senate begins the debate on Trump's proposed cabinet, where there are quite controversial and difficult to accept figures in the Republican ranks.

One of them is the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who jumped from a Democratic line to the Republican bandwagon.

Although the change of uniform was brutal and difficult to digest in both parties, that is not precisely what is most complex about his figure.

It turns out that the official who will be in charge of health in the northern power is also an antivaccine, a confessed believer in conspiracy theories.

For conservatives, there is another issue that causes them displeasure, which is the support of the future Secretary of Health for the interruption of pregnancy up to 24 weeks of gestation, an issue that frightens the most puritanical.

This appointment will test the absolute loyalty that the next head of the White House will demand from the congressmen and could be a watershed between those who are willing to do what is asked of them and those who prefer to have a minimum of dignity and independence of action.

There is another issue that has hardly been mentioned so far, but which could soon become a matter of national debate, and that is that Trump slipped the idea of reforming the laws of the country and introducing the possibility of a third presidential term, that is, to have another term in the Executive.

In a society unfriendly to big changes, this means a radical transformation and it would have to be seen if those who have the real management of the country in their hands would be willing to tolerate it.

Let us not forget that in that nation the president manages the power, but does not incarnate it, he is only a delegate or, to put it more clearly, an employee.