Make America Great Again ! (MAGA) Saison 1 (2016-2020)

"It is with the slogan "Make America Great Again!" (MAGA!), which Donald Trump campaigned during the 2016 presidential elections. A little later, in his mandate, he does not hesitate to describe himself as "the president of law and order"…, while refusing to explicitly condemn the violent acts of white supremacist activists, who identify with openly racist organizations, such as the "Proud Boys" and "Qanon"; and even as countless American protesters march through the streets of major American cities, following the asphyxiation death of African American George Floyd, caused by police, officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (US) On November 8th, 2016, Republican Party candidate Donald Trump, was elected the 45th president of the United States, following two consecutive terms of Obama (2008-2016).
Donald Trump obtained 62.9 million votes, for 304 electoral college votes (45.9%). His competitor Hillary Clinton obtained 65.8 million votes, or 227 electoral college votes (48%). That is 2.8 million votes more than Donald Trump. But Donald Trump won in three "rust belt" States, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, tipping the election in his favour. Not since 1988 had these states voted for a Republican president. The 2016 Trump vote shows the angst of America’s lower class, the "modern proletariat" which Hillary Clinton had referred to as "deplorables". In 2016, the median annual household income in these three swing states was between $5,900 and $9,300. That is lower than it was in the late 20th century. Such a decline in median incomes over a sixteen-year period is unprecedented in U.S. history.
Between 2007 and 2014, the US public debt increased by 269%. Nearly ten years earlier in September 2008, Obama had passed a gigantic $700 billion stimulus package through Congress for the exclusive use of private US investment banks, responsible for the biggest bankruptcy since 1930, thereby abandoning his promise to help the 12 million middle-class American households that had fallen victims of the "subprime" crisis. In other words, Obama saved Wall Street and "abandoned the average citizen". Our film sets out to show, through the figure of President Donald Trump, the both disturbing and iconoclastic face of a popular America, nostalgic for a past omnipotence, which has lost its traditional bearings and its faith, in the "American dream".
(YM for Chairecoop)

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