Public broadcasting still can't believe it. Against all expectations, Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States. The pill is all the more difficult to swallow since the Democratic candidate – whom most of the French media already saw sitting comfortably in the Oval Office – was soundly beaten. “Trump is at 71 million votes. It's huge!bitterly noted Patrick Cohen, Wednesday evening in C to you. Donald Trump will have in his control the federal government, the Senate, perhaps the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court…” In short, it's a disaster.
So, how can we explain what appears in the eyes of the media left to an event contrary to the meaning of history? The first person responsible for this political bug is obvious: it is Elon Musk, of course, boss of X, this social network which “shape the world”as Patrick Cohen asserts. “Social networks have become the fourth power, but as the fourth is in the hands of the first, it is sufficient to say that there is no longer any counter-power”he is indignant. Coming from a journalist who is undoubtedly the most caricatured media incarnation of the leftist ready-made thinking that has governed us for 40 years, the attack does not lack irony…
The easy map of sexism
What about Kamala Harris’ personal responsibility for her failure? This option was quickly swept aside on the France 5 set. “No one knows if, in a hundred days, another democratic figure could have done better”decided Patrick Cohen. “She did what she could”added Anne Sinclair, magnanimously. No, the second cause of Kamala Harris' electoral failure lies elsewhere: it is sexism, of course. Impossible that this woman of color could take on the slightest responsibility. She can only be a victim. Men in general, and Latinos in particular. “Hispanic men have mostly switched to Trump’s sidedenounced Patrick Cohen on Wednesday evening. Were they seduced, galvanized, by the sexist, misogynistic, vulgar, masculinist remarks of Donald Trump? Were American males ready to carry a woman to the White House? The question remains open…”
Opposite, Anne Sinclair, a major specialist in the United States, was of the same opinion. “We don't know exactly the underlying motivations, but there was the rejection of a black, mixed-race woman. (…) Perhaps, in fact, the fact of a woman president did not correspond. This is still the second time in eight years that a woman has been banned from the White House! »
This victimizing and essentializing vision is all the more deplorable since the beginning of Anne Sinclair's analysis was rather well received. She explained that certain minorities end up, over time, assimilating with the native American people and rejecting any communitarian affiliation. “Hispanic men voted for Trump because they have been here for generations and have become Americansshe then rightly declared. We wanted to confine the Hispanic vote and say that, like the black vote, it was acquired. They did not agree to be pigeonholed. »
Indeed, Hispanic men did not vote for Trump because of his gender or skin color, but because of the platform he supported. Rather than behaving like Latinos, they voted like Americans. Likewise, they did not vote against a woman, but against a social project that seemed dangerous to them. Against a certain wokism.
An anti-woke vote above all
This was also the analysis delivered by Éric Zemmour, Wednesday evening on CNews. “Donald Trump is the name of the revolt against what Kamala Harris embodieshe explained. This victory is very symbolic of a major defeat for the left. The American people no longer wanted to be counted on. »
But it is ultimately quite coherent that France 5 denies this defeat of wokism by victimizing Kamala Harris and by adopting a reading grid that is itself… wokist.
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