Donald Trump composes his infernal orchestra step by step – Libération

From his courtyard at Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect is designing a cabinet with confused ideological contours for his return to Washington. A team in his image, where controversial figures, old television stars and tech billionaires come together behind the project to “break everything”.

“The American people re-elected Trump so he could break what needs to be broken,” trumpets Kevin Roberts, president of the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, in a column at Washington Post in the form of a profession of faith. He had already declared in July: “We are engaged in the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left complies.” The enthusiastic Roberts is also the author of a very recent essay entitled Dawn’s Early Light (“The First Lights of Dawn”), prefaced by the future vice-president, J.-D. Vance, under the original (and ultimately revised) subtitle Reduce Washington to ashes to save America. In the Post, he believes that “Trump’s appointments to his cabinet reflect his awareness of this disruptive mandate.”

We couldn't say it better. Each day since the election, with its daily bursts of press releases issued by Trump from his Florida Xanadu of Mar-a-Lago, shows how much the former and future president is not returning to the White House as he arrived there in 2016 – then disarmed, taken by surprise by his own victory, and forced to come to terms gropingly with theestablishment conservative Washington – but as he left reluctantly, four years later