“What is disturbing is not just watching this man who behaves like a gorilla, it is watching the people who attend his meetings and who applaud him, who are enthusiastic and happily approve of this vision of the way things should be, namely, that men should rule.”reacted on France Inter, Thursday November 7, the Franco-Canadian writer Nancy Huston, after the election of Donald Trump, for his second term, Wednesday in the United States.
For her, this election is more complex than a simple war of the sexes, since Donald Trump's victory was wide. “That means that there are millions and millions of women who voted for Trump, and it makes me cry too”she confides.
According to her, “we are returning to a sort of primitivism in relations between countries”, with “alpha males”, like Donald Trump, but she also cites Elon Musk, boss of Tesla and fervent support of the president-elect. She wants to question how we contribute to it, particularly by “encouraging violence in political language, in social networks, by neglecting violent pornography, by accepting that our children buy violent war video games, that we watch violent films”. “We train our minds in a Manichean way, 'us versus them,' like Trump does all the time.”
The writer therefore calls for “try to embody and promote the values that Donald Trump flouts, namely modesty, empathy, altruism, gentleness, kindness, joy of living, sharing and above all nuance”. “We are telling stories that are far too simplistic, and what we can do, all of us, is to avoid getting into this game of 'I am the strongest' but, on the contrary, to always introduce nuance, complexity and historical truth.
