2023-12-06 21:00:01
Former US President Donald Trump at South Texas International Airport in Edinburg (United States), November 19, 2023. MICHAEL GONZALEZ / AFP
Is American democracy entering its final year? Eleven months before the presidential election, a succession of alarmist articles and interventions are drawing the outlines of a Trump 2 administration.
Le magazines The Atlantic devotes a special issue to the arsonist plans of the former leader. Editorial Director Jeffrey Goldberg talks about “existential threat” for the country. United States “advance like a sleepwalker towards dictatorship”summarized Republican Liz Cheney, former Wyoming representative in Congress.
In the Washington PostNovember 30ththe neoconservative hawk Robert Kagan signs a dark op-ed on the abyss that is emerging. “The Trump dictatorship will not be a communist tyranny, where almost everyone feels oppression and sees their lives reshaped by ithe writes. In conservative illiberal tyrannies, ordinary people find their freedoms limited in all sorts of ways, but this is only a problem for them to the extent that they are committed to those freedoms, which many people are not. . »
“We can’t let him win”
The polls, although unreliable, are fueling panic. Donald Trump crushes the Republican primaries and regularly beats Joe Biden in the hypothesis of a new duel.
“If Trump didn’t run, I’m not sure I would run. We can’t let him win.”, explained the president, Tuesday, December 5 in Boston (Massachusetts). A sacrificial approach that is hardly exciting, when a majority of Americans wonder about the age of the outgoing president. Why sound the alert so early on the Trump threat, when the primaries do not begin until January 15, 2024 in Iowa? Because he advances unmasked.
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An example: its migration and security policy, detailed by the New York Times in a long investigation published on November 11. The program provides for militarization of the border with Mexico; vast detention camps for undocumented immigrants and an unprecedented expulsion campaign; the end of automatic obtaining of American nationality for the children of immigrants born in the United States. Finally, the death penalty for drug traffickers, inspired by the example of Xi Jinping in China.
Beyond immigration, a historic break is envisaged in terms of the rule of law. The former president is driven by a feeling of revenge and revenge. The revenge targets Joe Biden, whose 2020 victory he does not recognize, continuing to spread lies about imaginary fraud. Revenge concerns all those who have tormented him for two and a half years, starting with the magistrates and the federal police (FBI) responsible for investigations targeting him.
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