the Calvados MP Bertrand Bouyx believes that we must fear the America of Donald Trump

Invested Monday January 20, 2025, Donald Trump is now officially president of the United States. At the head of a new ministry of “governmental efficiency”, the billionaire Elon Musk gave a speech and once again made headlines with a gesture that resembled a Nazi salute.

“In no case a simple impulse of the heart”

On social networks, Bertrand Bouyx, deputy (Horizons) for the 5th district of Calvados, affirms that “Elon Musk's gesture cannot be interpreted other than for what it is: a fascist or Nazi salute, and in no way case a simple impulse of the heart. The parliamentarian from Bessin adds: “Looking for justifications, mitigating its scope or trying to minimize its impact is already entering into a dangerous complacency. »

“Musk finances far-right movements in Europe”

For the tenant of rue de l'Orangerie, in Bayeux, “a major political leader, whether as a minister in one of the greatest world powers or as a billionaire entrepreneur claiming global influence, every gesture, every word , has an incommensurable weight. And this is all the more true for someone like Elon Musk, who presents himself as a paragon of communication. » This is why Elon Musk’s gesture “cannot be minimized or considered anecdotal”.

Elon Musk's gesture is part of a strategy to normalize his ideas. Because it is common knowledge that Musk finances far-right movements in Europe, shares ideas that resonate with those of Trump, and supports a white supremacist, racist and bellicose doctrine.

“Where is Trump’s America going?” »

Faced with what he describes as “a drift”, Bertrand Bouyx believes that it is urgent to ask this question: “Where is the America of Trump and his ideological allies going? An America which, without complexes, claims Greenland, eyes Canada and projects its ambitions as far as Panama. It is not only an imperialist America that stands before us, but an authoritarian, dominating America, ready to impose its vision in defiance of our common democratic values. »

The world has everything to fear from this America, not only for its political freedoms, but for the survival of the humanist principles that many of us still want to defend.

The member for Bessin also cites Hannah Arendt, political scientist, philosopher and journalist known for her work on totalitarianism and a work (The origins of totalitarianism) published in the 1950s.

Recalling that she warned her contemporaries: “It is in the emptiness of thought that evil takes place. » “This void, today, is abysmal,” insists Bertrand Bouyx. “And this is very precisely what figures like Musk are seeking by doing this: they are digging deeper into this abyss, into this absence of intellectual and moral resistance where authoritarian populism takes hold. Not to react is to become complicit. To act and denounce, on the other hand, is to refuse the inevitable. »

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