*Ran Halévi
is research director at the CNRS and professor at the Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies.
Latest book published
: “
The Chaos of American Democracy
: What the Capitol Riot Reveals
” (
Gallimard, 2022).
One after the other, the obstacles that stood in the way of Donald Trump's return to the White House fell;
a return that he himself sees more as a re-election: this presidential campaign takes on the appearance of a duel between two incumbents whose candidacy a majority of Americans disapprove of.
It took just one primary, in Iowa, to rid the former president of a rival long considered formidable.
Ron DeSantis, who offered Trumpism a more dashing and less acrimonious face, was unable to hold on to the Republican electorate, who were for a moment tired of their cumbersome elder.
And it is unlikely that the candidacy of Nikki Haley, the only one left in the race, will drag on after her failure in New Hampshire.
She believed…
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