And if the press hadn't understood anything
He is everywhere this morning in photos, on the front page of all the daily newspapers, Donald Trump essential. And then the headlines, stunned by “The incredible comeback” is the same headline this morning on the front page of the Parisian Today in France and Les Echos. “The shattering return” is that of Le Figaro.
“The triumphant re-election of Donald Trump constitutes one of the most extraordinary political returns that has been written in his columns Adrien Jeaulme. And the obstacles Donald Trump overcame make his victory even more significant.”
Then just after this observation, there are Orfraie's cries from the left-wing press, stunned and angry against an American people who, according to her, flout democracy and above all who did not listen to her. Because the left-wing press will have spared no effort in recent weeks to explain to the good people what they should think, where the good was that the Nazi was.
The most caricatured daily on the subject this morning is L'Humanité which publishes on its front page a photo of Trump more bitter than ever. “American Nightmare” is the headline of the communist daily. And Sébastien Crépel in his columns denounces a new president with a “neo-fascist and pro-business” program, we wonder what is most serious under his pen.
“The brown international now has its seat in the White House,” he concluded with an obvious sense of proportion.
No, “we must never look at the people with condescension” Nicolas Charbonneau seems to answer in his editorial in Le Parisien.
“The more than 70 million Americans who voted for Trump are not fascists,” he continues, “they are citizens who had the feeling of never being heard. And the Trump phenomenon should concern us because part of our political body has this inability to understand the people. This intelligentsia which decrees what is good or not for its fellow citizens.”
Yes, “rejected by the elites but elected by the people,” summarizes Guillaume Tabard of Le Figaro, treated as a fascist but victorious without calling for universal suffrage.
In fact “presented as the devil by the self-proclaimed proponents of democratic virtue, the Trump case has something to shed light on the French political debate”.
“There is always a paradox,” he recalls, “in setting oneself up as a defender of democracy while deploring the expression of universal suffrage.”
“We obviously think of Marine le Pen,” Tabard continues, “twice finalist in the presidential election having been locked into an extreme right label in which the vast majority of her voters do not recognize themselves and by being opposed by the almost unanimity of opinion relays.
Why did a majority of Americans vote for Trump?
To understand it, read the long article by Laure Mandeville in the same Figaro.
“We can never say enough that the Trump Revolution is a profound cultural realignment, a desire to preserve the American way of life against the desire of elites to deconstruct everything.”
“The fact that the candidate has progressed in all corners of the country and broadened his base in all categories shows that the term shift is not an exaggeration.”
“The first source of this vote remains the anger of the working classes and their rejection of globalization. Against relocation and mass immigration… And this is not a racist reaction but a project aimed at protecting America first.”
“Then the question of woke identity ideology which has overwhelmed American institutions was another key element.”
“In all the interviews we have done in Trumpist country, continues the great reporter, the exasperation faced with the spiral of deconstruction, excessive use of the racial card, incidents aimed at allowing transgender men to practice women's sports crystallized a real rebellion among Americans. Americans who talk about returning to common sense.”
Yes, “Trump’s victory sends us back to our own blindness” finally sums up Nicolas Beytout on the front page of Opinion.
“In our eyes, the Trump character is nothing but excess. Yet he is deemed worthy of being their president by a majority of Americans.”
“Will what we don’t want to detect there happen one day in France, asks Beytout? And besides, isn’t that already the case, he replies.”
The issues that made Trump win are here at home: purchasing power, immigration, insecurity, without forgetting the hatred of elites.
The soil is the same. Let us be careful, he concluded, from burying our heads in it so as not to see.”
The Tifo of scandal
This is going to be the controversy of the day: The pro-Palestinian tifo deployed yesterday at the Parc des Princes.
You will read that in L'Equipe this morning.
Before the European Cup match against Athletico Madrid, PSG supporters deployed a gigantic tarpaulin on which we could see a mosque with its minaret, a child with a flag of Lebanon, a man in fatigues and a keffiyeh and the slogan “Free Palestine”.
Contacted by the newspaper, PSG management indicated that it was not aware of the plan to display such a message.
However, Arnaud Hermant wonders: How could PSG not be aware?
“Given its size and weight, it is likely that this gigantic tifo was made in the premises of the Parc des princes,” he writes.
At the very least, he concluded, there was a lack of supervision or control.
Another question is how UEFA will react.
In any case, PSG, that's already it, does not fear that we will take away the victory points given that they lost yesterday!
