Every December, TIME names the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year. So which is it this year: Better or worse? The challenge for Donald Trump is how profoundly the country disagrees about the answer.
On retiendra que Donald Trump aura été élu avec une minorité de voix (la plus importante depuis l’élection de 1876), à la suite de la campagne la plus détestable, après avoir déversé des tombereaux d’insultes sur son opposante et émaillé chaque jour de la campagne de mensonges et autres promesses dont on sait qu’elles n’engagent que ceux qui les écoutent.
In the days after the election, everything was negotiable: the wall became a fence, “Crooked Hillary” is “good people,” and maybe climate change is worth thinking about. Far from draining the swamp, he fed plums to some of its biggest gators.
Time Magazine pose la question for the Better or worse ? et y réponds sans ambiguïté : For those who believe this is all for the better, Trump’s victory represents a long-overdue rebuke to an entrenched and arrogant governing class; for those who see it as for the worse, the destruction extends to cherished norms of civility and discourse, a politics poisoned by vile streams of racism, sexism, nativism.
Une élection qui défie la plus grande rationalité car « Even at his moment of victory, 6 in 10 voters had an unfavorable view of Trump and didn’t think he was qualified to be President ».