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Announcing massive purges in all parts of the state, the election of Donald Trump symbolizes the victory of “illiberalism” in democracy. A smokescreen towards authoritarianism.
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With the election of Donald Trump – a billionaire habitual criminal – and his praise of virilism, his contempt for women, his ad hominem threats, his insults, his frightening promises, after watching the film The Apprentice, very well informed about the training of young Trump by a lawyer who taught him to lie, to never admit having lost or being wrong, a political hurricane has just hit the United States and, as a result , on the world and on what was left of working democracy.
This hurricane has a name: “illiberalism”, of which Donald Trump has become the emblematic global incarnation and which now makes all supporters of authoritarianism in the world dream, all candidates for maximum power, even if it is not He is not the inventor of this concept.
This victory of illiberalism, after the elimination of all those who had expressed the slightest reluctance towards it, is a prelude to a
