Democratic legality is struggling, almost everywhere, argues historian*. In America, as elsewhere, the substance of Woke culture consists in bending the notion of law, and justice, to the arbitrary sentences of the government of morality.

Trumpism, on the other hand, flouts the laws in the name of the Constitution. In France, a pension reform, included in the program of a duly elected president, discussed and adopted by the national representation, then validated by the Constitutional Council, has been bitterly contested for months.