The accession to the presidency of the United States of a man who lies like he breathes, a man incapable of establishing human contact with anyone, whose ignorance is bottomless and unattractive that for the Chinese, Russian and North Korean dictators, is the most destabilizing political event since World War II in the West.
During his years in power, Donald Trump succeeded in destroying his country politically and morally. Man has survived all excesses, he has trampled on all traditions and he has deconstructed national institutions like justice, the army and Congress, hijacking them for his own profit.
Whoever now wants his head carved in the rock of a mountain that will make Mount Rushmore forget has exposed a reality that is difficult to admit, namely the fragility of democracy in our so-called “free” countries.
Delirium
Donald Trump has succeeded in kidnapping the Republican Party to make it the instrument of his personal delirium, relying on his billionaire “friends”, too happy to witness the dismantling of certain social and medical protection measures.
Trump’s heinous actions no longer count. The president, who once bragged about grabbing women by their gender, said this week that many men felt “offended” by Joe Biden’s nomination of Kamala Harris as their vice presidential candidate. United States.
Just this week, the president gave orders to reduce standards designed to save water in showers in the country, after complaining to the media about insufficient water pressure for his hair. And it is he who calls Joe Biden an idiot, even a moron, to the delight of his die-hard fans.
The United States, the so-called leader of the free world, appears, whether Trump is re-elected or not, as a heartbroken power. A power in which political extremes on the right and on the left destabilize government institutions, which risks causing a drastic decline in its commercial and economic power.
An atmosphere of latent civil war has floated over the past few months and there is no reason to believe that it will not rebound.
Slippage
The pandemic has brought to light Donald Trump’s incredible slippages. Time and time again he appeared like a haggard madman, not afraid to put himself at odds with his greatest immunologist, Dr. Fauci, and suggest injecting himself with disinfectant to guard against COVID-19.
No one would have had the imagination fertile enough to grasp what the Trumpist years caused as disruptions first in the United States, but also in the most loyal allied countries.
In his Speech of voluntary servitude, work of the XVIe century, Étienne de La Boétie describes the link between the tyrant and his people. Trump is not yet a tyrant, but the identification of a part of the American population can apply to it. Trump imposes his law and his will and his “people” accept and identify with him.
Lucidity is a hurtful, but unavoidable necessity.