Everyone has their own interpretation – sometimes good and not so good – to explain Donald Trump’s decisive victory.
It’s the economy’s fault.
It’s Joe Biden’s fault.
It’s Kamala Harris’s fault.
It’s sexism’s fault.
It is the fault of the abandonment of the working classes.
It’s liberalism’s fault.
It’s the fault of the elites.
It’s immigration’s fault.
It’s Elon Musk’s fault.
It’s the fault of foreign interference.
It’s the media’s fault.
Exit the United States
But I see many stopping their analysis on the ignominies of Trump and on the United States. However, Trump’s victory represents the core of the Western world’s shift to the right.
Each country has its cultural and political particularity, and its populist gradation.
But everywhere, from the United States to Canada, from France to Germany, from Denmark to Italy via Argentina, it is the same mechanism at work. The same voters (working class), in the same places (suburbs and regions), turn to the same parties, the same politicians, for the same reasons.
The world has changed since the end of the Cold War.
This new world has produced winners and losers.
Free trade agreements have led to the relocation of factories and the loss of jobs, the knowledge economy – so-called “jobs of the future” – has imposed itself to the detriment of the manufacturing economy. , local and rural communities became empty and left behind, while mass immigration created competition among non-graduates.
Faced with this, the left, here as elsewhere, not only ignores their revolt, but despises it, even judges it morally reprehensible.
It abandons the question of inequalities for antipatriotism, and a division of everyone into identity boxes – cultural, religious and sexual.
On the right, traditional conservative parties have been overtaken by populist parties or modified from within by anti-system candidates.
And they are the ones who win the 2.0 class struggle.
