The United States’ main foreign expedition force deployed to… Los Angeles, this on top of the US president enrolling the National Guard in a show of force against pockets of violent protest against the arrest of undocumented immigrants at their place of work.
It’s a fight that Donald Trump wanted to pick for a long time, going over the head of the Democratic governor of California just days before another first, in Washington a US president staging a military parade on his own birthday. In his first term, Trump’s Republican party was the party of states rights, regularly accusing the federal government of overreach. How did it all change so fast?
A nation with a determined far-right that’s up against a splintered mainstream, that sounds a lot like France where the next presidential election’s in two years. As Marine Le Pen’s party harks back to its trademark anti-immigrant rhetoric, a topic where a majority of US citizens back Trump, what lessons from the seemingly fast-changing form of democracy in America?
Produced by François Picard, Maya Yataghene, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Alessandro Xenos.
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Wassim CORNET FRANCE 24 US West Coast correspondent
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Philippe MOREAU-CHEVROLET Professor of political communication, Sciences Po
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Hind ZIANE Founder and CEO of Génération Politique
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Andrew WEISSMANN Professor at NYU School of Law; Former General Counsel of the FBI
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Robert WEISSMAN Co-President, Public Citizen
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