It was ultimately without controversy or dispute that this American presidential campaign ended. Donald Trump and the Republicans not only gain access to the White House, but also regain control of the Senate and strengthen their presence in the House of Representatives. Since November 5, analyzes have multiplied in Europe to try to understand the reasons for the billionaire’s overwhelming victory.
The economic context, marked by inflation which has seriously undermined the purchasing power of millions of Americans, occupies an important place in the motivation of the 5 million votes in advance obtained by the Republican. Like the promises of the “America First“(notably on immigration) carried by a Donald Trump reincarnating the charismatic leader after the mistakes of the Biden-Harris tandem, were able to mobilize the popular electorate. But beyond material concerns, it is in reality an ideological rejection which brought together the middle classes: that of wokism.
The permissiveness of the Democrats
A wokism which has been able to count for many years on the permissiveness of the democrats and an entire intellectual elite, whose support for minorities has gradually slipped towards an exacerbated communitarianism. If the theme was carefully avoided during Kamala Harris’ campaign, the latter has long been a fervent supporter of these fights.
A few weeks before officially joining Joe Biden’s campaign in 2019, she supported the “Defund the police” movement which proposes cutting police funding to fight police violence. Having become vice-president, she continued her appeals by specifying the pronouns by which she wished to be referred to as transgender people are used to doing on social networks: enough to question an America which is torn around the taking in medical and surgical care of children’s gender transitions. Finally, a few days before the election, she campaigned for the legalization of marijuana “for recreational use” which, according to her, would “create opportunities for black Americans”.
It is this vision of the world that Americans have put an end to by electing a candidate who, despite the insults, fake news, the convictions, appears as the ultimate defense against a madness other than his own. Not only the traditional Republican electorate, but also a growing share of African-American, Latino and Muslim minorities refuse to be essentialized and instrumentalized by such dogmatism.
The far left discredits the police
The results of the American campaign send a serious warning to European democracies who are increasingly complacent and cowardly in the face of woke fever. It would be very wrong to think that the same evils will not produce the same effects on this side of the Atlantic and particularly in France. The far left never misses an opportunity to discredit the police and propose their disarmament. The dismantling of statues, the promotion of intersectional struggles and indigenism regularly make the headlines.
Just a few days ago, an NFP deputy called without laughing on the National Assembly to ban the expression “black work” under the pretext of racism, while Sandrine Rousseau dared to compare the oppression of Afghan women to the situation of French women wearing the veil. For its part, the far right has never been so close to winning the next presidential elections because, as in the United States, many French people reject the theses of this radical left. It is now up to the LR right and the Macronist right-wing elected officials to urgently propose a third way: a bloc capable of restoring order where others are working to “deconstruct”, gathered around a real positive project based on economic, social, environmental and scientific progress. The last chance to escape an infernal mechanism similar to that which will henceforth punctuate American political life for many years.
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