The American presidential campaign is inhabited by depression, a worrying feeling of bis repetita which indicates the near impossibility of defeating Donald Trump. Because even if he loses the election, he will have damaged politics so much, through his excesses, his insults, his indecency, that neither America nor the West will emerge unscathed. The spectacle is all the more distressing because the Republican and the Democrat do not compete on their programs, their visions of the future, their responses to American and international ruptures. They tear each other apart with invectives, proposals without outlets, insults. If the culprit, “the one who started first”, is indeed Donald Trump, Kamala Harris made the mistake of outbidding and playing on the same ground as the uncontrollable and crude Republican.
What will the history books remember about Donald Trump’s arrival in the political arena? Panic. A panic that took hold in the Democratic camp when the welcome withdrawal of Joe Biden was no longer enough to mask Kamala Harris’ poor campaign. A panic which made us forget the most important thing in a campaign: incarnation. Kamala Harris should have, could have worn the costume of the future, to tell a story that speaks of the cosmopolitanism of America, equality elevated to pride, success for all, without racial distinctions. Because precisely, she is the child of exile, of university parents from India and Jamaica, because she was prosecutor of California and vice-president.
She could have embroidered on women’s bodies which belong only to them, repeating that you can be against abortion, because your faith, your beliefs, your saints, okay, but that no one ever forces you to abort, so what will your faith do in the neighbor’s uterus? She could have forcefully recalled the reopening of the factories in made in America by Joe Biden, address Trumpist voters in the “rust belt” to reactivate the promise of pride in work. But Harris, gripped by ethnic panic, preferred to propose measures aimed only at African-Americans, and to promise them the legalization of cannabis so that black men could take advantage of “opportunities” – a chilling determinism. There are 10 million poor blacks in the United States and 23 million poor whites. Why not propose an end to poverty for all?
Campaign of an anti-Trump columnist
Kamala Harris’ campaign has been that of an anti-Trump columnist. The accusation of “fascist” like that of “little tyrant” are a matter for columnists, not for candidates. She plays moral mother by repeating Trump’s offensive outings to slap him on the wrist. She has never been anything other than reacting to the Republican’s repetitive and mendacious belching, going so far as to demand that they “turn the page on Trump.” But what did Biden do after Trump’s defeat if not boast of having turned this page which definitely sticks to the fingers of an America sick of its lost illusions?
And what can we say about the umpteenth stupidity of Biden, who, amnesiac of that of Hillary Clinton on the “deplorables”, found nothing better than to insult the Trumpist voters by comparing them this time to “trash” for respond to a filthy “joke” from a comedian about Puerto Ricans? And here is Trump driving a garbage truck! And his voters feel ever more in tune with him against the establishment, the deep state, the mainstream media, the elites.
The decision of Washington Post not to vote for a candidate reflects the hysteria that has gripped the Democrats. We forget that what matters is “the overwhelming journalistic evidence presented by the Washington Post himself on the threat that Donald Trump poses to democracy”, as the legendary Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote – but to denounce the decision of neutrality. Isn’t the substance more important than the form? Doesn’t the prosecution’s investigation demonstrate more than the partisan posture of panic, which has never been so frightening, has replaced the proposals for a desirable American future?
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