It was supposed to be a close vote like never before and high risk, possibly marred by irregularities. Barack Obama even recommended patience to the Americans, in the probable event of a late final result, as in 2020. But none of this happened…
Shortly after 11:30 a.m. – Paris time – this Wednesday, when the counting of ballots was completed in Wisconsin, Donald Trump became the 47e President of the United States of America. Clearly ahead of his rival in the number of votes obtained from voters, the Republican candidate is also better elected in 2024 than in 2016 since this time he won the popular consultation, in a context of high participation.
His victory therefore cannot be contested, the electoral process which he strongly criticized worked perfectly and consequently, democracy was expressed. But what democracy are we talking about?
A model collapses, and with it a certain idea of America – that of George Washington or after the Second War – in which Donald Trump would never have obtained a second chance to access office supreme, but would then languish in the dustbin of History.
“All is forgiven”, seem to declare the voters who are republicans, conservatives, nationalists, conspiracy theorists, isolationists or simply tired of the high cost of living and inflation, who have found a hero in this unpredictable character, and a hope in the rantings, the insults or the sales pitches which have served as a program…
The victory of Donald Trump is also the crushing defeat of the Democratic camp which will, when the time comes, have to make its own self-criticism. The state lie about Joe Biden's health, his stubbornness in running for a second term, the late entry into the campaign of a pale double whose image and speech have never really been printed, are all reasons that led undecided voters to turn away from a historic vote in favor of the first president of the United States.
In this country that believes in God, Smith & Wesson, we looked at the speck in Kamala Harris's eye and ignored the beam in Donald Trump's.
As if struck by amnesia, American voters have forgotten the serious suspicions weighing on the billionaire regarding the aborted coup d'état of January 2021. They ignored the misogynistic, racist or populist excesses pronounced during a campaign that he hysterical on purpose, thereby denying the progressive ideal that the United States has long shined on the world.
This guilty renunciation which worries Europe should call out to us the state of disrepair of modern democracies…
