NARRATIVE – The Republican promised to change politics and transform the very structures of power. An extraordinary character, at the head of a Maga coalition of which he is the main glue, he announced that he will keep his promises. It remains to be seen which ones.
Trump’s victory is complete. He won the election with the majority of the electoral college, but this time also with that of the popular vote, which had eluded him in 2016. At the same time as the White House, he won control of the Senate, with a solid majority which will allow it not to depend on the votes of a few overly independent personalities. The latest counts should also confirm the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The third branch of power, the Supreme Court, is controlled by a conservative supermajority of six justices who have already given it unprecedented immunity and largely share its political vision.
When he is inaugurated on January 20, Trump will, like few of his predecessors, hold almost all the levers of power in Washington. But the scale and significance of his victory goes beyond that. The extraordinary political resurrection of Trump is also the triumph of a…
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