Donald Trump showed himself this week to be even more provocative, even more odious. As if it were impossible. Despite everything, I won’t budge: he will end up in the White House, because Kamala Harris is going to lose this election.
Nothing can reassure me anymore. Three and a half months of campaigning were not enough for Kamala Harris to get used to it. I first believed that a shortened fight would benefit her, that voters would not have time to tire of her, that the surge of novelty and relief generated by the departure of Joe Biden was going to carry her far enough, long enough.
I was wrong. The intelligent and meticulous woman that is Kamala Harris proved to be an overly cautious candidate, taking few risks and showing herself to be moderate to boredom. If she so needs to repeat that her possible presidency will not be a continuation of that of Joe Biden, it is because we would not know it otherwise.
SAD TO SAY, BUT THE COUNTRY IS NOT READY
The constant erosion of the vote of black men, Latinos, young men in general and, cruelly, of a certain number of women proves, I fear, that the United States is not yet ready for a woman as president .
Sexism, misogyny, it’s something like that. As the United States remains, in my opinion, riddled with racism, despite the election of Barack Obama. And Obama was incomparable: an exceptional oratorical gift; a generational political flair; the right man at the right time, that is to say while a devouring desire for change was spreading after years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, coupled with the illusion of a post-racial America.
The country has no more conquered its old racist demons than it has shaken off its sexist deviations. So, imagine, Kamala Harris, a woman, and Black to boot.
THE WORST POSSIBLE CANDIDATE
Make no mistake, the idea of a Donald Trump victory is frightening. His denunciation of the “enemies within” against whom he could launch the National Guard, or even the American army itself, is terrifying.
Its program of deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants will create a deeply unhealthy atmosphere of suspicion and snitching. His promise to fire Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who identified a long series of misconduct, misdemeanors and crimes committed by Trump, clearly jeopardizes the rule of law.
Without forgetting that he remains – even before what I have just listed – a twice-convicted criminal, a former president who has faced two impeachment proceedings, who continues to lie almost every time he opens mouth and which pushed its most fanatical supporters to attack the seat of American democracy, the Capitol, to prevent the confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory and thus try to appropriate the presidency.
DEMOCRACY AS AN ISSUE
The Democratic campaign is banking on the threat that Trump poses to American democracy at the end of the race. Not about the struggle with the cost of living that torments a majority of Americans or about a convincing response to the contagious feeling of an overflow of immigrants.
In turn, Kamala Harris and her team live in an alternate reality where, as she reiterates in every interview, “The vast majority of us have far more in common than differences.” A few hours in the field are enough to see that Democrats and Republicans are, in fact, allergic to each other. As Tom Nichols of the magazine rightly observed The Atlantic“millions of voters support Trump because of his offensive style, not in spite of it.”
Trump isn’t expected to win, but Harris can’t stop him.
