With him, it’s a return to the lost paradise of the wide-open spaces of the American West. An armed sheriff leading his caravan, the Republican candidate surfs on the vertigo of a disoriented America.
From Joe Biden’s resignation on 21 July to the vote on 5 November: the Vice-President of the United States will have had just a hundred days to campaign. Kamala Devi Harris, 60, the daughter of a Jamaican economist and an Indian scientist, and a former prosecutor in California, is caricatured by her Trumpist opponents as “a leftist” and by the wokes as “a cop”. The reality is that of a pragmatic centrist, admittedly not very charismatic, but hard-working and honest. This, in the face of the freewheeling bulldozer that is Trump, can convince and reassure undecided voters….
When she was 20, Kamala Harris joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority, which belongs to the vast black network of the Divine Nine. Little did she realise that, several decades later, this would be one of her major assets in her bid to defeat Donald Trump on 5 November.
A former US ambassador to Japan under the Trump administration, Kenneth R. Weinstein is outspoken in his support for the Republican candidate. A great connoisseur of American foreign policy, in this interview he details the repercussions for the rest of the world of a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House.
The American presidential election is like no other, with a campaign full of twists and turns. We asked historian André Kaspi, a specialist in the history of the United States, to shed some light on the subject.
Are we that far from them? The ocean that separates us from the Americans seems to be shrinking on the eve of a crucial presidential election for the United States and the world. Could the breakdown of the American dream, crystallised by the enthusiasm of half the nation for a Donald Trump who is delirious – “executing babies after birth, Haitian refugees eating cats and dogs” – and threatening the worst if he does not win, be the XXL version of the breakdown of the French dream?
They are going to vote while we are still recovering from our own elections, from the European elections in June to the legislative elections in July. Loss of buying power, rifts between communities, hate-filled dialogues, ultra-violence, the dictatorship of social networking sites, the grip of conspiracy theorists: the debates that have set the American scene ablaze are echoed in our own.
The contrast between the slender, refined Kamala Harris and the imposing, temperamental and excessive Donald Trump is striking. It is the head-on collision of two Americas that nothing – or almost nothing – can reconcile.
