Trump administration 'hoping to essentially do away with the rule of law and democracy in the US'

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Oliver Farry welcomes Pierre Gervais, Professor of American Civilisation at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He describes the attacks on Iran beyond the prism of geopolitics: a veritable constitutional and political stress test for the US. He sees the unfolding war with Iran in the cadre of democratic resilience over military strategy. The short term will not be kind to Donald Trump as most Americans reject the war and Trump never saw the value in building domestic or international consensus. We're now in uncharted waters and any historical parallel to Iraq is superficial at best. Trump’s MAGA supporters are broadly isolationist and the decisive issue for voters will remain economic precarity, not foreign policy. The central question is no longer simply whether the war will cost Trump politically, but whether constitutional norms will meaningfully constrain executive power in the years ahead.