Donald Trump’s victory is indisputable and popular: even multi-ethnic and working-class America wanted him in the White House. Failure is terrible for the Democratic Party. The citizens of the United States and the world who did not want this dangerous man in power are worried: what awaits us?
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By Béatrice DelvauxPublished on 6/11/2024 at 11:35
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Une red wave, a triumph: Donald Trump’s victory is large, incontestable and popular. America wants Trump as president, not just the America of white men and the far right. Everything proves it – the electoral results, the conquest of Swings States or even the “taking” of the Senate: it is a reversal of the American electoral map which has occurred, revealing a new political face of the “people” which crosses ethnicities, genders, social strata and ages . This Tuesday, in fact, whites, Hispanics, African-Americans, men and women, workers and business leaders, young and old voted for Trump. A vote of adhesion to the person, to the strength he embodies and to the masculinity he exhibits, but also a plebiscite of what he promises. “It’s the beginning of the Trump era,” says an observer at dawn who sees a country stuck on the Trumpist needle for a long time.
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