Trump was not a mistake of history

Le Regard Libre N° 69 (updated version following the events of January 6, 2021) - Clément Guntern

With Donald Trump's term in office drawing to a close, the question arises: what will his legacy be to his country's history? His personality and political actions may have shocked or impressed, but he is nonetheless perpetuating a long-present trend: the national disunity and international decline of the United States.

As if shocked by the election of Donald Trump four years ago, members of the American Democratic Party clung to a reassuring idea: Trump would be history's mistake; more a bad surprise than a new deal for the United States. The elements of the diagnosis seemed obvious. According to them, the wealthy New Yorker had been able to take advantage of the Democrats' disunity around Hillary Clinton's candidacy, of the in