Trump est-il dangereux ? Nous avons interrogé deux intellectuels phares outre-Atlantique afin qu’ils nous éclairent sur cette question qui fait trembler l’Amérique comme le reste du monde. Le premier, Todd Gitlin, professeur sociologie à l’université de Columbia, analyse le caractère impulsif et amoral d’un président voué à appliquer un programme très libéral. Le second, Peter Dreier, professeur en sciences politiques à Los Angeles, dénonce le bellicisme, le sexisme et le racisme du locataire de la Maison Blanche, dont les paroles et les décisions risquent de marquer profondément le pays, malgré une opposition grandissante. Voici, en intégralité, et en anglais, les analyses percutantes et passionnantes de ces deux observateurs avisés de la vie publique américaine.

Is Donald Trump dangerous? Is water wet? If Donald Trump is not dangerous then the word has no meaning. But danger, like genius and stupidity, comes in many varieties and intensities, and because Trump is deeply unstable, and because much of his government’s activity is cloaked in secrecy (journalists not having penetrated the inner workings of government bureaus), the sum of the ways in which he is dangerous cannot be pinned down. The safest thing to say is that he is dangerous for many reasons and in many ways, not all of which are predictable. Some of those ways are known and some are not; some might be, to adopt the inimitable phrase of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “unknown unknowns.”

 

First, Trump knows next to nothing about history, science, economics, or any aspect of government policy.He does not read books or even short articles. He gleans much of his “information” from right-wing propaganda that is not only ignorant but warped. Ignorance is normal for American citizens (among others) but to say the least, when the most powerful man in the world is in a position to make decisions that affect the well-being of hundreds of millions—billions—of people around the world, and he has shown a willingness to make decisions in the absence of evidence and logic, how can i

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