United States » When the 118th American Congress returns on Tuesday, the House of Representatives and the Senate will welcome dozens of new elected officials. Including a work of fiction. In the 3rd district of New York State, traditionally rather loyal to the Democratic Party, the voters designated a novice Republican, George Santos, 34, who presented himself to them as a “full embodiment of the American dream”. While above all, for the past week, he has revealed himself to be the emblem of a radical form of mythomaniac cynicism, and of a state of American politics that has broken, in the wake of Trump (of whom Santos was a fervent follower), all moorings with a semblance of requirement of truth or relation to the facts.
The George Santos triumphantly sent to the Capitol on November 8 presented himself as the son of Brazilian immigrants and arrived from his modest origins and diplomas gleaned from New York universities (NYU and Baruch College) to positions of
