Rome, 7 November 2024 – “This will be America’s golden age. This is a magnificent victory that will allow us to make America great again”. Yes, Trump is still the chosen one. His MAGA (Make America Great Again) rhetoric conquers the belly of the United States for the second time. He triumphs over Kamala Harris with 292 electoral votes against 226, when Nevada, Arizona and Alaska are still missing, which will certainly go to him and guarantee him a total of 312 votes: 42 over the victory threshold seal of an indisputable success, he also won the popular vote, something that had not happened to the Republicans since 2004 with George W. Bush. Not only did he prevail in Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada. He brought down the ‘Blue wall’ (battered) Democratic ‘Blue Wall’ up in the north, conquering the decisive Pennsylvania and also conquering Wisconsin and Michigan, which were already his in 2016.
Harris has laboriously held Virginia and Democratic states all along. Too little for a candidate who has proven incapable of speaking to the deep soul of America and who is paying for two unspeakable ‘guilts’ of a country obsessed with political correctness: being a woman and not white. Too much for a significant portion of the electorate, who, after Clinton, also rejected her. The tycoon will be the first president to hold two non-consecutive presidential terms since the dem Stephen Grover Cleveland, at the end of the nineteenth century. The first with a criminal conviction and the oldest president to take office, at 78 years old. After the failed assault on Congress he seemed like a finished leader. And instead.
When he appeared before his people on stage at the Palm Beach convention center, Trump, surrounded by his family, made a victory speech imbued with his rhetoric. “Wow, this was the greatest movement of all time. It was a political victory like never before!” “We – he promised – will help this country heal. We will solve its problems, we will fix our borders, we will fix everything”. And he’s ready. “I will fight for you every single day, and with every breath in my body, I will not stop until we have delivered the strong, safe, prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.”
Trump praises his wife Melaniathe children. He profusely thanks (“A star is born, he’s a super genius”) Elon Musk. The public praises him and he gets excited. “We want a great education, we want a strong and powerful army and one that ideally we don’t have to use. They said ‘he’s going to start a war’. But I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” The how makes Ukrainians and Palestinians tremble. but he only thinks about the interests of the Americans. “Together – he insists in messianic tones – we will reveal America’s glorious destiny. Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and restore America to greatness. And now we are going to fulfill that mission.”
There wasn’t even one missing bypartisan appeal. “It’s time to put the divisions of the last four years behind us. It’s time – said Trump – to unite and we will try. And it will happen.”
