"Trump deserves the oblivion of history, Trumpists question the future of democracy"
Alain Frachon, columnist at "Le Monde", looks back on the last days in power of the one who "lived by lies, in business and in politics, lied to others and to himself".
Chronic. He will step out of the White House on January 20 dressed as the villain in the last shot of a western that has gone too long: naked, his body tarnished and covered in feathers. Abandoned by part of his government, threatened with a new impeachment procedure, deprived of his press officers, Twitter and Facebook, denounced by his business friends, the ego suffocating at home the beginning of a remorse or the Outline of a self-criticism, Trump ruminates on the ingratitude of the fate that is done to him.
He lived by lies, in business and in politics, he lied to others, he lies to himself, and the lie, in fine, jumps to his throat. Trump leaves the political scene the victim of the last of his deceptions, of the last canard invented to cling to power, this story of "election stolen" by his Democratic opponents - and which will turn into drama.
Summoned there for weeks, with vengeful tweets, then heated to the point this Wednesday, January 6, his supporters storm Congress. He rejects the verdict of the ballot box and the peaceful transfer of power - one of the hallmarks of democracy. “Walk on the Capitol,” he told them, to greet our friends and scold our enemies. Objective: stop, prevent the certification ceremony of the outcome of the November 3, 2020 election: 81 million votes and 306 voters for Joe Biden; 74 million and 232 for Trump. They "walked". In a few hours, five deaths.
Bubble of narcissistic fantasies
In a very Trumpian logic, which makes his person the sole object of his concerns, Trump, preparing the ground, had warned and repeated before the election: if I lose, it is because the election will have been rigged (if I win is that she will have been honest).
The inner psychological springs of the individual do not matter. Perhaps he was cynical, hoping that a show of force by his supporters would provoke a political-constitutional crisis and keep him in power for a time? Unable to break out of the bubble of narcissistic fantasies in which he lives and delights in, perhaps he saw himself, sincerely, as the heroic savior of American democracy? The real Trump mystery, the mystery of the Trumpist adventure, is not here.
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