dIn the surrounding political bustle it happens that historical events make us silent or almost silent. On the whole, the reactions in France to the election of Donald Trump seem poor and conventional.
The extreme right contained its joy, aware beyond real affinities that there was a certain risk in promoting such a sulphurous character at a time when the affirmation of “America first” risked seriously complicating the defense of the tricolor cockade. . The left exposed its divisions, La France insoumise attributed the defeat of the democratic camp to the lack of radicalism, unlike the social democrats who preferred, like Anne Hidalgo, to attack the deterioration of public debate. “ [aux] fake news, [à] violence, [aux] abuse, [à] the permanent questioning of the rule of law ». The right, almost silent about the event, has intensified its security offensive, with the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, acting as a bridgehead in the fight against drug trafficking, which has become a national issue.
Paradoxically, the loudest voice came from the ranks of a camp known to be moderate: the center. In an interview with Parisian, On Sunday, November 10, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the MoDem, Jean-Noël Barrot, denounced “decades of elite blindness to the upheavals of the world, their denial of the legitimate exasperation of the middle classes tired of feeling discredited and dispossessed”. The crux of the problem is there, but how can we respond to it?
The election of Donald Trump is an earthquake. The character had everything to disqualify himself: delusional, liar, xenophobic, persecuted by the courts, a threat to democracy. Four years after starting his followers’ march to the Washington Capitol on January 6, 2021, the billionaire won the popular vote, controlled the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court and locked up the Republican Party. From an “accident of history”, she became the midwife of Trumpism, a conservatism that combines economic liberalism and isolationism, a populism that combines a well-understood defense of the interests of billionaires and a radical retreat aimed in particular at the elites. intellectuals, a virilism that praises strength in a world increasingly dominated by it.
Legal battles
Located on a national scale, Donald Trump’s electoral performance corresponds to the dream that Eric Zemmour cherished during the 2022 presidential campaign: uniting at the polls the patriotic anti-tax bourgeoisie and the working classes in rebellion against the system. Where the founder of the Reconquista! Having finished his career with 7% of the votes cast, Donald Trump achieved the grand slam without obtaining an electoral tidal wave, but consolidating and expanding his electoral base after four years of opposition dominated by his legal battles.
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