MAJOR MAINTENANCE – The inauguration speech of 47e President of the United States illustrates the transition from protest populism to “aspirational populism” across the Atlantic, analyzes the American essayist and professor at Johns Hopkins University*. After expanding his electoral base, Trump seeks to offer a desirable future to all the American people.
*Yascha Mounk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the online magazine Persuasion. Latest book published : « The Identity Trap » (Editions de l’Observatoire, 2023).
LE FIGARO. – In his inauguration speech, Donald Trump placidly declared : « America's decline is over. The golden age has begun. » Before talking about the 20 January 2025 as on « liberation day » . Does this speech resonate with a majority of Americans? ?
YASCHA MOUNK. – Donald Trump's first inauguration speech in 2017 began in the same way: with a catastrophic diagnosis of the state of the country, this idea that Americans were living a nightmare, that the economy had collapsed and that freedoms no longer existed, to then promise a glorious future that we owe to Trump himself. This extremely pessimistic diagnosis of the present finds a certain audience because the discontent…
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