"Thisis probably the end of Trump, certainly not that of Trumpism, in no way that of populism," Hubert Védrine summed up in 2021, a few days after the attack on the Capitol. The former foreign minister had undoubtedly underestimated the resilience of the political animal Trump and the irreducible bond he has forged with some of his supporters. Two years later, the billionaire, yet surrounded by legal proceedings, remains the favorite of the Republican Party primary. There is, however, one point on which Védrine was right: the lasting inscription of the populist phenomenon in the political landscape. In the United States, it is a question of political survival, the major themes carried by Trump (immigration control, reactivation of borders and economic protectionism, rejection of any form of political correctness, severe criticism of institutions and legal power, questioning of military interventionism in foreign policy)...
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