On the contamination of politics around the world, the Trump way.

Since Donald Trump's election in 2016, presidential and diplomatic traditions have been shattered. We have entered the world of "Trumping": the distortion of facts, the demonizing of opponents, tolerance of street violence. Politics has come down from its pedestal. Trump has imposed X as a filterless platform spilling out his logorrhea across social media, while Trump clones emerge around the world. As Trumpism trivializes extreme behavior, so too, traditional parties, looking on in mesmerized repulsion, themselves take on a few new traits. Will this outrage implode? Can we, as the Americans say, "unring the bell"? But as we all know too well, this is impossible. In fact, as of 2024, a new episode of the soap opera is already looming in the U.S. and elsewhere...