VSt is the story of a regression, as happens elsewhere. For a long time the American Republican Party presented itself as a big house – a “Big tent”, they said, out of a taste for the outdoors. Several tendencies coexisted there: the compromise passed for a political quality. It’s finish. The Republican Party, one of the pillars of American democracy, has been behaving like a sect for several years now: it wants to exclude non-believers.
The presidency of Donald Trump has accentuated this drift. It will be said that on Saturday, February 13, seven Republican senators were found to vote for the dismissal of Trump, on the grounds that the one who was still president on January 6 inspired the assault launched that day against the Congress of States -United. It would have taken ten more Republican votes to condemn the arsonist and make him ineligible forever.
In part of the Republican hierarchy, the anti-Trump revolt is brewing. Probably too late. In the shade of the palm trees of Mar-a-Lago, his Spanish-Moorish refuge in Florida, Trump is counting his nest egg – $ 175 million (145 million euros) in political donations at his disposal, says the New York Times.
He will use it to punish Republican dissidents, those who dared to vote for his impeachment or those who, in January, endorsed the victory of Democrat Joe Biden – which Trump, without the start of a proof, called ” flight “. Trump will fund candidacies against “Traitors” during the Republican primaries of November 2022. The leader demands allegiance to his person, as in a religious cult.
Fundamentalist turning point
For now, a majority of Republican voters still say they are loyal to Trump. “The Republican Party is Donald Trump and no one else “says Marjorie Taylor Greene, newly elected Republican from Georgia, ex-member of the QAnon sect – a group of white supremacists who defend an original thesis: Trump would have been chosen by God to fight a global plot hatched against America by a gang of pedophile Satan worshipers who took refuge in the Democratic Party. Trump has never denounced the QAnon sect. The election of Taylor Greene is a marker in the evolution of the party: from Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), first president of the modern Republican Party, to QAnon… What happened?
Trump has come to bring his “touch” to the “values” defended by the party since the 1980s: societal conservatism with a strong religious tendency, mistrust of the federal state, dismay at the rise of ethnic minorities, mistrust of the ‘regard to science (climate, vaccines, theory of evolution), all carried by a patriotism claimed loud and clear, justifying unwavering support for the defense budget.
You have 52.03% of this article to read. The rest is for subscribers only.
