BACK TO SCHOOL TESTS. In “The Chaos of American Democracy”, Ran Halévi analyzes the insurgency of Trump supporters on Capitol Hill on January 6. Luminous.
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AT priori, or rather a posteriori, the page of the Capitol uprising, led by supporters of a mad Donald Trump who refused to admit his electoral defeat, has been turned. Pure illusion, warns Ran Halévi, who places this January 6, 2020 in those rare days that have made – or should we say defeated – America. Of course, such a slippage is intimately linked to the personality of a man who knew how to lead a crowd more colorful than has been said, signing a populist pact of formidable effectiveness. Halévi also underlines well in Trump what does not support, viscerally, the reverse, this existential refusal to marry the figure of loser that he has always ridiculed in others. In Donald Trump’s world, you simply cannot lose. Hence the systematis …
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