EDITORIAL. Donald Trump pushes for the far right to rule France: the midterm results could also set the tone in the race for the Elysée

These elections will perhaps change the political climate in the United States. But they also promise to be a moment of truth for all those running for the Élysée in 2027. Two years after the election of Donald Trump, what message will his voters send him?

Are they grateful to him for having carried out his ultra-protectionist program or, on the contrary, do some of them blame him for the immediate consequence of his wars, commercial or not, on their daily lives, namely the terrible increase in the cost of living? We know that the average voter in Pennsylvania cares little about world disorder, but he knows the price of filling up his pickup while a gallon of gasoline has exceeded $4. Can we deal with the French situation?

Comparison is not right, but while we too are suffering a cost of living crisis, the Americans will already tell us whether the populo-sovereignist choices of their leader have really allowed them to move forward better. If in the chaos of 2026, it really serves any purpose to elect an authoritarian leader who only recognizes the balance of power even if it means fracturing his own country even more. This may or may not be a warning for next April as Donald Trump openly pushes for the far right to rule our country.

You just have to see the way in which he interferes in our national debate. The Republicans are interfering in French political life We end up talking about it very little or we are hardly moved by it, but the Republicans continue to interfere in our political life. They even made the current situation in France one of their campaign arguments.

There are of course the messages from Donald Trump himself on his Truth social network after the looting of October 17. “The immigration of people from a completely different world, people with hatred in their hearts have broken this once great country,” he said. As for American Vice President J.

D. Vance, he tweeted an image of the Limoges town hall on fire, explaining: “This is the future that democratic parliamentarians want for our country”. He even went so far as to send a message to the mayor of Limoges!

Not sure that all this will stop if the Republicans lose Congress, but it is a weakened Trump who will send his banners from Washington. In the event of a large victory for the Democrats, aid to Ukraine would be better secured, Trump would no longer have as much freedom to wage a trade war which affects entire sectors of commerce in France. But he would still have the power to find a new way to destabilize the world.

You would have to be crazy to imagine that our presidential debate would suddenly be calmed. This would simply remove a little of this constant pressure that France has been under for two years.

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