The House is failing,

Liberation

The scenario that many feared is being written before our eyes

: the United States is on the brink of a fracture, and American democracy in danger.

By proclaiming, well before the end of the counting of the ballots, that he was a winner, that the Democrats were going to "steal the election" and that he would not hesitate, to prove it, to go before the Supreme Court (

just rearranged in his hand

), Donald Trump behaved like any president of an authoritarian regime (…).

democracy is in danger,

Le Monde

One of the oldest democracies in the world, the United States, is thus in an unprecedented situation, one where a president in office deliberately disrupts a federal electoral process, claims victory in the midst of counting operations and brandishes the threat to have him interrupted by an independent court over which he is not supposed to exercise influence.

It is, no more and no less, to ignore universal suffrage,

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It is to deny the role of an election, an essential element of the democratic system.

For four years in the White House, Donald Trump has upset all the rules of respect in politics, flouted those of the primacy of facts and truth, insulted American and foreign partners, turned his compatriots against each other.

He hadn't yet taken the risk of throwing the voters' verdict overboard.

It is to be hoped that he will come back to this threat.

This kind of maneuver,

, is common in authoritarian regimes.

It is not worthy of the United States of America.

In any democracy, such an exit of a candidate would have disqualified, ridiculed,

La Charente Libre.

But for his voters who confirm with this election his loyal, solid and even broadened base, Donald Trump has made his contradictions a force and his lies their own truth, their fight even against the elites or all those who have lied to them for years. years.

There remains for them a hope when Joe Biden is only a bulwark, very close to a necessarily undeserved victory that Trump will contest to the end and perhaps by all means.

The tear of this country is up to the participation record.

Unprecedented in the ballot box, predictable like the millions of advance mail votes, irreconcilable like Trump and his report to the truth.

Le Figaro

Donald Trump has shown that his electoral base was broader and more solid than the polls credited him.

Whether he wins or loses, he has permanently installed Trumpism in the American political landscape.

Le Parisien

was a crucial test for Trumpism.

It was hoped that a large defeat of Donald Trump would cause a global shock and send a strong signal to his colleagues Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, or to Viktor Orban in Hungary.

(…) The return to earth is brutal.

The (tight) result of the American vote demonstrates the resilience of nationalist demagogues.

For four years, Donald Trump has destabilized his country and the global balance with his excesses, his tweets and his fake-news.

It was believed that its erratic handling of the pandemic and the economic crisis would give it the final blow.

But deep America has recognized itself once again by making the outcome of the ballot uncertain until the end.

 it would be wrong to think that Trump's arrival was an accident in history, that it was only a passing fever, that the" plebs "who brought him to the power will eventually pull itself together in the face of human stupidity, narcissism, violence and vulgarity.

On the contrary, since it has consolidated its positions!

The irruption of this billionaire is the fruit of a country sick of its deep inequalities.

With all due respect to those who are tormented by Trumpism, this is a major political fact,"

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The polarization is certainly stoked by Trump, but it goes beyond.

Americans deeply disagree on what American democracy means.