Decryption – The president employs his second mandate to affix his mark as none of his predecessors before him, at the risk of opening a new era full of uncertainties, with global consequences.
Instead of a restoration, it is a revolution. In a hundred days, Donald Trump upset American institutions like none of his predecessors. His first mandate had convinced part of the public, and even some of his opponents that Trump was above all a provocative, that his speeches were exaggeration, and that he was ultimately a somewhat noisy curator. The second term denied these projections. Trump the rebellious has kept its campaign promises to transform America. Those of its voters who only hoped for a return to normality and stability saw a new era full of uncertainties, with global consequences.
Trump hasn’t changed, but he learned a lot. On Washington, in particular, where he understood that the apparent solidity of the institutions was largely based on consensus and uses, which he flouted with the joy of those who have long been despised. His extraordinary return to power, who has it …
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