ANALYSE – A victory for one man, the election of Donald Trump is also that of a party that has been fundamentally reshaped. Both on an ideological and sociological level, the mutations of the Grand Old Party could inspire its French counterparts.
The victory of the Republican Party in the United States is that of a man, but also the culmination of a sociological and ideological revolution. « Trump has paved the way, without deliberate strategy, but rather by intuition, for what could become the first multiracial postliberal labor party, in opposition to a party representing the liberal professional and managerial classes », wrote the conservative intellectual Patrick J. Deneen in our columns a week before the election.
It is true that Trump's Republican Party appears very different from the Republican Party shaped by Reagan in the 1980s, then by the Bushes in the 1990s and 2000s, whose sociological base was rather wealthy and whose ideology was the polar opposite of national- billionaire populism. Although socially conservative, the Grand Old Party in its Reaganite or Bushist version was globalist economically as well as in politics…
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