[Édito] France and Trumpism

It is too early to know how Donald Trump's second term, which is already causing a lot of concern, will evolve both inside this continent-shaped country and internationally. While knowing that the new American president knows how to be pragmatic despite the theatricality of his action. On the other hand, this will not remain without influence on the future of the world and Viktor Orban was the first to welcome it. But we must qualify: if everything that happens across the Atlantic eventually happens to us, it sometimes takes a little time and France often finds itself going against the cycle of Western countries. Thus, the waves of the conservative revolution initiated by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher have regularly washed up on our shores. And those who tried to ride it, the latest being François Fillon, did not succeed. In truth, Donald Trump no longer has anything to do with the Republicans described under George W. Bush as neo-conservatives in that he condemns American imperialism in the form of external interventions and has resurrected isolationism with the slogan “America first”. Marine Le Pen, who could imitate her, however, welcomed her victory with sobriety. No doubt because she moves away from the excesses of this cowboy which recall those of her father and appear today as the prerogative of Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Éric Zemmour. The calculation of the leaders of the National Rally is that our two-round electoral system is very different from that of the Americans. It requires you to move closer to the center to hope to be elected. Hence the “tie strategy” adopted by the RN, aiming for respectability, unlike LFI. In the United States the election takes place in fifty states whose electors must be won. And omnipotence is rather considered a virtue. This is what allowed them to send a man to the Moon.