L'ancien président Donald Trump arrive à un meeting de campagne le 29 juillet en Pennsylvanie, quelques jours avant son inculpation pour avoir tenté de renverser les résultats de l'élection présidentielle de 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Les États‑Unis au bord d'une nouvelle guerre civile, gracieuseté de Donald Trump

L’histoire peut expliquer en partie pourquoi certains Américains croient que seul Donald Trump a leurs intérêts à cœur, et voteront pour lui – et se battront pour lui – malgré ses mises en accusation.
Former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally on July 29 in Erie, Pa., a few days before he was indicted on charges he worked to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump

American history can partly explain why some Americans have come to believe only Donald Trump has their interests at heart, and will vote for him — and fight for him — despite his indictments.
A 21-year-old woman demonstrates outside the White House over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers on Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Tyre Nichols: U.S. police violence stems from a long history of fighting ‘internal enemies’

In the face of violent crime, both real and imagined, too many U.S. police forces adhere to racist philosophies about rooting out ‘internal enemies’ as they did hundreds of years ago.
An image of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is overlaid with the words ‘don’t attack our democracy’ at a rally to denounce the governor’s immigration policies on Sept. 20, 2022, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Republican party’s cruel migrant stunts have very deep roots

The recent anti-migrant actions of the Florida and Texas governors reflect specific hatreds that date back to the very beginnings of European settlement in North America.
In this March 2003 photo, Iraqi soldiers surrender to U.S. Marines following a gunfight. The war has loomed over geopolitical events for the past 19 years. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch, File)

War sent America off the rails 19 years ago. Could another one bring it back?

The most direct cause of America’s ongoing harrowing descent, including the rise of Donald Trump and his alliance with Vladimir Putin, began 19 years ago with the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
South Carolina Rep. Justin Bamberg, a Democrat, spoke out against a proposal to add firing squads to the state’s methods of execution. AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins

South Carolina aims to bring back the firing squad

The legislature of South Carolina recently voted to allow death row prisoners to choose a firing squad over electrocution and lethal injection.
Le président Biden, à la Maison-Blanche, se dirigeant vers le bureau ovale le 9 mars 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Joe Biden comprend le rôle d’un président américain, en 2021

Depuis son investiture en janvier, Joe Biden a démontré qu’il comprenait le fonctionnement de la présidence américaine moderne, tant sur le plan politique que sur celui de la psyché de la nation.
U.S. President Joe Biden walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Joe Biden understands the modern‑day American presidency

Since his January inauguration, Joe Biden has demonstrated that he understands how the modern U.S. presidency works, both in terms of policy and the nation’s psyche.
A 1975 stamp printed in St. Vincent shows U.S. presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who were all vocally pro-inoculation and vaccination. (Shutterstock)

The U.S. Founding Fathers would want us to get the COVID‑19 vaccine

In the early years of the United States, several American presidents were in favour of public health inoculation and vaccination strategies.
In this Oct. 3, 2017, iconic photo, President Donald Trump tosses paper towels into a crowd in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria devastated the region. The recent U.S. election brings with it hope for more caring practices from elected officials. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

To move on from Trump, America must rebuild its capacity to care for its people

The United States was built on the idea of public safety and well-being. Those values have been slowly eroded since the ‘80s. Can the U.S. find its way back to a more caring civil society?
White House adviser Jared Kushner listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus at a White House briefing in April 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Prosecute Donald Trump for coronavirus crimes? No, but maybe Jared Kushner

Could Trump’s remarks about the coronavirus to Bob Woodward become Exhibit A in a formal prosecution of the president on criminal negligence charges? Or is it Jared Kushner who should be worried?
Donald Trump a gagné la majorité des électeurs blancs en 2016 et une stratégie similaire pourrait lui permettre de remporter l'élection cette année. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump peut gagner à nouveau (et sans tricher)

L’histoire des États-Unis suggère que, malgré ce que disent les sondages, Donald Trump pourrait être réélu en novembre. Son attrait pour les électeurs blancs et les propriétaires l’avantage.
Donald Trump won over the majority of white voters in 2016 and a similar strategy could lead to his victory in this year’s election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump could win again (without cheating)

The history of the United States suggests that, despite what the polls are saying, Donald Trump could be re-elected this November. His appeal to white voters and business owners are a major advantage.
In this photo from March 29, 1968, striking sanitation workers march to Memphis City Hall, past Tennessee National Guard troops with bayonets. (AP Photo/Charlie Kelly)

With Trump in charge, America is going back to more hostile times

In dealing with mass protests of police killings of African Americans, U.S. President Donald Trump is invoking old phrases and laws — first from 1967 and then further back to 1807.
Donald Trump is no Richard Nixon. And that’s why he’ll never willingly leave office in 2020. (The Associated Press)

Trump will cling to power — and Republicans will cling to him

Trump will survive the impeachment process in 2020, no matter what malfeasance comes to light. The Republicans will protect their man at all costs.
President Donald Trump simulates a law enforcement officer holding a gun at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Convention in Chicago. If Trump’s support continues to fade, more senators will break from him because their voters demand it. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

If Trump gets impeached, don’t thank the U.S. founders and their elitist constitution

If the U.S. Senate agrees to hear the articles of impeachment for Trump, it is not because of the U.S. founders’ commitment to democracy, but rather in spite of their elitist design.
1909 image of a sugar mill, Barbados - a Caribbean island with a history of many colonial slavery laws. Allister Macmillan/W.H. and L. Collingridge/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The roots of America’s white nationalism reach back to this island’s brutal history

The vicious ideology that allegedly drove a gunman to kill 22 people in El Paso, Texas last week could be traced back to a tiny island on the eastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea
E. Jean Carroll is photographed, Sunday, June 23, 2019, in New York. Carroll, a New York-based advice columnist, claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. Trump denies knowing Carroll. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Rape and ‘the rule of law’ in Trump’s America

Can Trump’s America even claim to be a nation of laws, when its most powerful man can apparently do whatever he wants to whatever woman he wants?
Amal Clooney prend la parole lors d'une rencontre du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU, la semaine dernière, au côté de Nadia Murat. Une résolution de l'ONU visant à punir ceux qui utilisent le viol comme arme de guerre et aider les survivants de telles atrocités a été édulcorée en raison de l'opposition américaine. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Voici pourquoi les États‑Unis se sont opposés à une résolution de l'ONU contre le viol

Une résolution de l'ONU visant à punir ceux qui utilisent le viol comme arme de guerre et aider les survivants de telles atrocités a été édulcorée en raison de l'opposition américaine.
On Jan. 15, 2019, the House voted 416-1 for a resolution to reject Congressman Steve King’s words about why terms like ‘white nationalist’ and ‘western civilization’ are offensive. Here a June 2018 file photo on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Memo to Iowa congressman: Western civilization was never just western

“Western civilization” has always been tangled up with Africa, Asia and the Americas. In other words, there never was a West without the Rest.

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