Oligarchy and bonus for balls | The Press

On February 10, 2024, I said this about Donald Trump, in a column: “Not long ago, just seeing or hearing him gave me hives. I suffered, because I simply could not accept that such a madman could find such a large audience to preach his hatred with complete impunity. But, for the past two years, I have worked to free my heart from this unhealthy energy. So much so that today, I listen to what he says like chewing gum.¹ »

Today, this emotional distancing allowed me to welcome the results of his election with a certain detachment. Trump carries within him racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, pettiness, mythomania and many other defects of humankind. But the verdict is clear, his supporters are capable of overcoming the horrors that come out of his mouth and giving him back power.

So, like last time, with Hillary Clinton, in the land of the Founding Fathers, the phallocracy once again benefited from the bonus for balls*.

Early in the campaign, I heard a former Democratic strategist say that we shouldn’t hope to beat Donald Trump with tenderness and kindness. He said that he would have had to face an opponent with a lot of testosterone and aggression.

With Kamala Harris at the helm, we focused on oxytocin, the hormone of family and love. Very positive and smiling, she spoke about individual rights, opportunities for all, freedom, inclusion and equality. She also extensively preached the urgency of saving American democracy. Unfortunately, this faith in democracy no longer makes the hearts of many young people beat.

In November 2023, a major global study by the Soros Foundation² taught us that young people are less and less attached to democracy. Among young people aged 18-35, 35% said they were in favor of a strong leader without Parliament or elections. Worse still, 42% were open to experimenting with a military system.

In recent years, this democratic deconsolidation has been progressing in the Western world. Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two differently strong men, spoke to these young people, some of whom are grouped in misogynistic organizations that abound on the Internet.

Among these guys who advocate male domination and total contempt for sexual minorities, the fear that Trump will torpedo American democracy does not hit home, because it is Vladimir Putin exposing his pecs or Andrew Tate who embody their alpha male and role model to copy.

Kamala Harris’ debacle also owes to a return of the pendulum of the diversity ideology in vogue in her party.

It is perhaps time for the Democratic troops to understand that this fragmentation of the American population into small interest groups in the name of this ideology is beginning to falter.

Obviously, these inclusionary endeavors that some associate with wokism are important in correcting systemic biases in American society. The problem is that by constantly having their eyes fixed on these programs, Democrats seem to have forgotten to take a more obvious interest in the needs common to all Americans regardless of race, religion, gender, of cultural or gender origin.

Veteran Bernie Sanders is right to say, after this defeat, that the Democratic Party has lost real contact with the American people. Identity anxiety in the face of the migration crisis and the feeling of impoverishment of the working masses who say they have been abandoned by the State are among these common concerns.

Yes, the abortion issue is one too, but its scope has been overestimated in this America that is increasingly similar to a multi-faith theocracy. However, if there is one thing that unites all the dogmas of monotheistic religions, it is the control of women’s bodies and the supremacy of the Y chromosome over the other half of humanity who do not carry one. To believe that the United States, whose immigration comes mainly from the south of its border, where people are still very religious, would create a huge female coalition on such a subject is a very sad utopia. I did speak of sadness, because the return to the Stone Age of women’s rights is at the center of Trumpism.

While Kamala Harris was talking about abortion, Donald Trump was hammering out nonsense about inflation, purchasing power and crime. He also lied profusely about supposed country resources that Democrats give to irregular migrants at the expense of real Americans, including hurricane victims.

However, everywhere on the planet, when locals believe they are unfairly deprived of their advantages by foreigners, they can become comparable to chimpanzees in a territorial war.

It is for this reason that even medium- or long-term immigrants who were believed to be allergic to Donald’s xenophobic rhetoric have supported his proposal on the migration issue in large numbers. This rebellion against a background of exclusion is often created by a feeling of being cut off in the queue by others whom we would like to see behind.

As brilliant and sensitive as she is, Kamala Harris has failed to convince Americans about this migration crisis. In question, in the democratic coalition that she leads, the subject is delicate. We always have to play a balancing act so as not to offend the extreme left embodied by the formidable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Once the tears have dried, the Democrats will need a major path of questioning. Among these essential changes, there is the exploitation of American stardom in each election.

Like many Democrats in the media, these celebrities live in an echo chamber far removed from the reality of the average American family and Idaho potato farmer.

So, taking out these stars who live in ivory towers while extolling the importance of the wealth of the heart in the gossip magazines has its share of risk. Indeed, a good part of the working masses now hate this mixture of politics and show business. Where has the Taylor Swift effect gone that CNN profusely predicted for us? Despite their oversized egos, these stars will never have the persuasive power of Elon Musk, who owns a social network, builds electric cars, owns satellites and embodies the quintessence of American success.

Donald Trump’s success owes a lot to Elon Musk and the two businessmen are now preparing to advantageously mix politics and business. In fact, early in his involvement, Musk said he was campaigning with Trump only to protect free speech against the onslaught of wokism. We bet there is more.

Indeed, if that were the case, why doesn’t Trump’s terrible methods of intimidating everyone who disagrees with him bother him? There is more, because according to the Bloomberg index, the 10 richest men on the planet made 88 billion in one day following the election of Trump.

Elon Musk alone made 26.5 billion US dollars in one day. Apparently, he has already won the jackpot of his lottery of 1 million which helped to elect Trump.

These companies will benefit greatly from his involvement in the campaign which helped Donald Trump to raise the fortress which now separates two irreconcilable Americas.

This second wall divides progressive America and the other which believes that Donald Trump will deport 11 million people on the first day of his reign, dismantle the deep state in Washington, immediately stop the war in Ukraine, put Iran at risk. knees and protect the working masses against the abuses of political, media and economic elites.

Hearing of the achievement of these miracles, it is Vladimir Putin who rubs his hands and says: “I knew that the oligarchy had its place in Washington. »

*Burne is a synonym for testicle

1. Read the column “Donald’s Russian-Public Party”

2. Check out the results of the Open Society Foundations survey, founded by George Soros (in English)