“Blue Monday”? Let's instead talk about a “Red Monday”, red being in the United States the color of a Republican Party which, thanks to Donald Trump and from this January 20, will completely control American institutions, with enthusiastic support, and nevertheless opportunistic, many billionaires in the digital universe – Elon Musk (X), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook and Instagram), Jeff Bezos (Amazon)… Without forgetting French (less) heavyweights like Xavier Niel (Free), who, in company of his father-in-law Bernard Arnault, belonged to the “happy few” invited to the investiture of 47e president of the world's leading power.
In Washington, the boss of LVMH appears alongside Donald Trump, in Paris he supports Emmanuel Macron, one of the major absentees from the official ceremony, as well as other heads of state or government, erased in favor of 'Éric Zemmour or Marion Maréchal whose French nationalism will inevitably clash with American nationalism when the latter taxes tricolor products with a club and threatens their survival.
But, for the sovereignists here, Trumpism presents the incomparable boon of being the tool which can crush the fragile unity of this Europe which they vomit although it is the only coalition able to resist the steamroller with star-spangled banner.
“Long hostile to cryptocurrencies, Trump has just launched his own, which will weigh down his bank account so much that his wife, Melania, hastened to imitate him”
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Interests come before contradictions, and Trump is a model. Long hostile to cryptocurrencies, he has just launched his own, which will add so much weight to his bank account that his wife, Melania, hastened to imitate him. He wanted to ban the Chinese application TikTok before leaving the White House, he wants to cancel this ban by returning to it. How can we believe that there is not the smell of the dollar behind this about-face, for him or for the battalion of Croesus who pledge allegiance to him and wield the libertarian censer under his nose?
Libertarians who are also not apart from a paradox. Why do people who advocate total individual freedom and deny the State or any executive the capacity to legislate and standardize, starting with the carrying of weapons, oppose, straight in their boots, to abortion or same-sex marriage? Unless this ideology boils down to the license to shear the lamb then devour it without fearing the wrath of justice. Given the business cards of the Areopagus admitted to the Oval Office, we are tempted to believe it.
