Chronic. The 2016 election was allegedly lost by the Democrats to Russian interference – in fact, because Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate. Four years later, America denounces “The mob”, the crowd, the “populace” which invaded the Capitol. A most pejorative term that once again creates a kind of otherness, of strangeness, as if to mean “it is not us, it is not America”. But if. In fact, the crowd was the gratin of Donald Trump’s 74 million voters. And denouncing these crazy villains cannot hide the responsibility of those who have said nothing or seen nothing for years, namely the business community and the staunch Republicans.
They thought of Trump, like others in the past, “We’ll make short work of it”. They were excited to push their ultraconservative agenda behind the Trump puppet. Until that fatal January 6, when the masks fell: the mob was perhaps instrumentalized, but Trump was indeed attempting a putsch, namely to reverse by violence the constitutional certification of elections. We had it all wrong, this guy is a “Fascist”, a senior White House adviser to the New York Magazine. A little late, and cowardly as always, on condition of anonymity.
Because, for years, economic circles and Republicans have silently rejoiced over Donald Trump, who lowered taxes and deregulated the economy. Certainly, the circles of bosses advising the White House were dissolved in 2017 after the riots in Charlottesville (Virginia) which made a dead woman crushed voluntarily by a neo-Nazi. Trump had said there were good people on both sides of the protesters. But deep down, Donald Trump was above all a reality TV actor, a grotesque wrestler. The entry into “resistance” proclaimed after his election was invisible in New York – JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon being a rare dissonant voice – and a slogan in California. Because what had he done that was irremediable for the Americans? Not much in reality.
Biden’s moderate worker discourse
Outside of the capital Washington, life followed its course rather peacefully, the economy was booming, while violence against African Americans existed under Obama. Abroad: indescribable chaos in international relations, but no new war. His greatest crime remains to have separated hundreds of children of migrants from their parents at the border. Until these elections, which showed that Donald Trump wanted to steal the elections and their democracy from Americans.
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