samedi 25 août 2018

Les États-Unis sont tombés bien bas (Roger Cohenm New York Times)


Plusieurs en sont venus à accepter Trump comme il est. Pour l'instant seul le congrès a le pouvoir de le freiner et il ne bouge pas. Mais si Trump est une manifestation spectaculaire d'un problème sérieux aux États-Unis, les causes sont bien plus profondes. Comment nos voisins du sud se définissent-ils en 2018?

 "The thing about all the shocking Trump revelations — Michael Cohen’s about violating campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women in coordination with a “candidate for federal office” being the latest — is that they are already baked into Trump’s image. His supporters, and there are tens of millions of them, never had illusions. I’ve not met one, Babcox included, who did not have a pretty clear picture of Trump. They’ve known all along that he’s a needy narcissist, a womanizer, a lowlife, a liar, a braggart and a generally miserable human being. That’s why the “Access Hollywood” tape or the I-could-shoot-somebody-on-Fifth-Avenue boast did not kill his candidacy.

It’s also why the itch to believe that the moment has come when everything starts to unravel must be viewed warily. Sure, Trump sounds more desperate. But who’s the enforcer if Trump has broken the law? It’s Congress — and until things change there (which could happen in November) or Republicans at last abandon a policy of hold-my-nose opportunism, Trump will ride out the storm."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/trump-colorado-purple-state.html

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