RECITAL – The Republican has promised to change politics and transform the very structures of power. An extraordinary figure, at the head of a Maga coalition of which he is the main cement, he has announced that he will keep his promises. It remains to be seen which ones.
Trump’s victory is complete. He wins the election with the majority of the Electoral College, but this time too with the popular votewhich had eluded him in 2016. Along with the White House, he won control of the Senatewith a solid majority that will enable him not to depend on the votes of a few overly independent personalities. The latest recounts should also confirm the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The third branch of power, the Supreme Court is controlled by a conservative super-majority of six justices, who have already granted him unprecedented immunity and largely share his political vision.
When he is inaugurated on January 20, Trump will, like few of his predecessors, hold almost all the levers of power in Washington. But the scale and significance of his victory go beyond that. Trump’s extraordinary political resurrection is also the triumph of a…
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