[Echos de Washington] “Wokism takes a very hard blow”

Several personalities representing French right-wing parties were present in Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, including Louis Aliot, Marion Maréchal and Sarah Knafo. BV asked them for the lessons of this historic moment in American democracy, at a time when the new President of the United States is taking on, like never before, a resolutely patriotic and anti-wokist right-wing discourse. After Sarah Knafo, MP Reconquest! at the European Parliament, Marion Maréchal, MEP and president of ID-Libertés, answered our questions.

Marc Baudriller. You witnessed Trump take power in Washington, what surprised you the most? What is truly original about this enthusiasm for Trump for the French politician that you are?

Marion Maréchal. What is striking about Trump and which is quite unimaginable in France, is to see such voluntarism, a very concrete variation straight away, through the signing of dozens of decrees put into effect. The promises made are kept.

MB How did you view President Trump II’s first speech?

M. M. I took two looks. First, a conservative view because we have many common struggles, on freedom of expression, the refusal of a tyrannical and counterproductive vision of ecology, the end of land rights, illegal immigration, the idea of ​​treating drug cartels as terrorist associations. All these subjects are today carried by a great American leader: this can give hope that we can successfully import them to Europe and benefit from this momentum.

And then, I looked like a vigilant French and European because, behind the Make America Great Againstronger economic competition will be able to take hold. In fact, Donald Trump confronts us with our responsibilities: if we continue with a European project of total openness against a backdrop of bureaucracy and over-regulation, it is obvious that we will not be able to compete in the face of this new American voluntarism. This challenges us to be creative and responsive.

MB Meanwhile, in Davos in Switzerland, the cream of globalism meets as they do every year. Has this philosophy taken a hit or is Trump’s election a turning point for his supporters?

M. B. Today, there is a divide in the West that is quite striking and fairly well demarcated by the positions of each party on freedom of expression. It’s funny to see that this globalist left is the same one that wants to ban X, C8 et CNewson the model of China, North Korea or Iran, where X is prohibited. Those who, under the pretext of foreign interference, are ready to have elections canceled when we have profiles like Nathalie Loiseau, who is part of the council of organizations linked to Soros, or Thierry Breton, who is currently negotiating his contract with Bank of America. All this does not lack salt. But the dividing line between these two visions in the West is quite interesting. Trump’s victory and the various political developments in Europe demonstrate that history is moving primarily in the direction of American and European conservatives, more than in that of this anti-freedom left.

MB Do you draw lessons from the way in which Trump campaigned, in this march towards power?

M. M. I will be careful not to be too definitive: American political life and American style are nevertheless unique. I’m not sure that we can necessarily import the Trump method to France.

What is certain is that he was able to bring together the most popular Americans and even an American economic elite. He achieved this by holding a very anti-tax speech, very opposed to state interventionism, very anti-bureaucratic and anti-norms, a speech in which I find myself perfectly. It would apply very well to both the European Union and France. You know the words of Reagan when he spoke of France, on economic questions: “In France, when things are moving, we tax, when things are still moving, we regulate, and when things are no longer moving, we subsidize! ». It’s a very good formula and a real lesson. Because the aspirations for freedom of the American people are in fact very widely shared, even in France. Except that we are still facing a country that practices 25% compulsory deductions when we are at 47%! We don’t start from the same level.

Has MB Trump definitively killed wokism?

M. M. Wokism continues to move in a certain number of universities, think tanks, schools, but it is taking a very hard blow. From now on, the American administration will only recognize two sexes, male and female, among other decisions. It is also a very strong cultural and symbolic victory. Where we imagined the inevitable advances of the woke and LGBT agenda, we realize that we can stop this advance, or even return to what Trump called the most basic common sense. The most basic common sense is that, when you are a transgender man, you do not participate in women’s competitions. It is extraordinary to consider that it is a reactionary revolution to say this. This return to common sense is obviously something very encouraging, which will make us optimistic for the fights to come in France and in Europe.