COUNTERPOINT – However, a victory for Kamala Harris in the American presidential election is not expected with enthusiasm.
Are there still Trumpists in French political life? How far away the time seems when, still calling itself the National Front, Marine Le Pen's party applauded Donald Trump's victory in 2016, seeing it as the basis for his presidential campaign the following year. It seems even further away from the time when the French right as a whole naturally identified with successive Republican candidates and when the French left supported the democratic candidates. On this side of the Atlantic, old divisions exploded when, on the other side of the ocean, the view of Trump's personality broke free from traditional political reading grids.
Eight years ago, the businessman who entered politics already stood out with his style and the radicality of his positions. But, because he was mocked by the elites and fought by artistic and media circles, he first appeared as an “anti-system” candidate, a label…
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