Comme on le sait depuis longtemps, un des handicaps principaux de Hillary Clinton est, \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 d’une popularit\u00e9 un peu vacillante<\/a> aujourd’hui chez les d\u00e9mocrates, \tPour tenter de remonter ce handicap, un Kennedy, le fils de Robert (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) vient \u00e0 la rescousse de Hillary. Il le fait, le 12 d\u00e9cembre<\/a> sur Huffington Post<\/em>, en allant chercher une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence de poids chez les d\u00e9mocrates : Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abEven some Democrats who agree with Hillary Clinton on every issue and consider her an effective, inspiring leader, fret that the blind, irrational hatred, that burdened her husband during his presidency and that continues to dog his wife, might impair her delectability. She is too polarizing they say, parroting the verdict of television’s Sunday morning gas bags.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIt’s worth recalling the historical parallels with an earlier presidential couple. No other word than hatred will do, observed a May 1936, Harper’s Magazine feature They Hate Roosevelt by Marquis W. Childs. The phenomenon to which I refer goes beyond objection to policies or programs. It is a consuming personal hatred of President Roosevelt and, to an almost equal degree, of Mrs. Roosevelt.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbChilds deemed this fanatical hatred so intense and irrational that it could only be explained as the product of abnormal psychology. Historian William Manchester described how Roosevelt haters abandoned themselves in orgies of presidential vilification. William Bird, curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution said that by 1936, the Roosevelt haters’ had developed into a well-defined cult among the nation’s business elite, their lackeys in the press and on the editorial boards and among right wing Christian theocrats led by fascist radio host Father Charles Coughlin.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn history, this hatred may well go down as the major irony of our time, wrote Childs. The majority of those who rail against the<\/em> [Roosevelts] have to a large extent had their incomes restored and their bank balances replenished since the low point of 1933, before FDR came to power. That is what makes the phenomenon so incredible. It is difficult to find a rational cause for this hatred.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbDescribing the same baffling dynamics, a bewildered contemporary magazine editor created an inventory of the most vitriolic Roosevelt haters, including the CEOs of Phillips Petroleum, National Steel, DuPont, General Foods, Monsanto Chemical and General Motors, and then recorded the tremendous growth in their stocks which had all flourished since the implementation of Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe intense hatred of the Roosevelts was a dominant feature in the American political landscape during the decade of the 1930s and prompted efforts to impeach him and even a plot to depose him by a military coup planned by high ranking officers of Wall Street’s richest corporations, including Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel, JP Morgan, and DuPont. The vast right wing conspiracy had its own Richard Mellon Scaife. Robert Clark, one of Wall Street’s richest bankers and stock brokers pledged half of his $60 million fortune to help finance the coup. His deputy, former Commander Gerald Macguire of the American Legion, a Wall Street bond broker, equated Roosevelt’s reforms to Communism and explained the purpose of the coup to a co-conspirator, We need a fascist government in this country to save the nation from the Communists who want to tear it down and wreck everything we have built in America. The 1933 coup attempt was only averted by the courage of General Smedley Butler, the popular World War I warrior who had been tapped by Wall Street to lead the plot and who instead exposed and denounced it.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’analogie est significative par l’importance essentielle dans l’histoire US et chez les d\u00e9mocrates de FDR, y compris l’allusion au coup d’Etat<\/a> fasciste anti-FDR. Elle est une fa\u00e7on de conseiller \u00e0 Hillary : Eh bien, on vous hait, et tant pis, et m\u00eame tant mieux si vous arrivez \u00e0 en faire un avantage en vous r\u00e9f\u00e9rant \u00e0 FDR, l’un des plus grands pr\u00e9sidents de l’histoire des USA. L’analogie est habile, en tentant de faire d’un handicap un argument \u00e9lectoral. (Avec tout de m\u00eame la r\u00e9serve de taille que cette haine contre FDR n’existait pas pour sa premi\u00e8re \u00e9lection, qu’elle n’apparut qu’avec son premier mandat. Certes, l’analogie est acceptable en th\u00e9orie, c’est-\u00e0-dire qu’elle n’est pas une tromperie car la haine contre Hillary est apparue pendant les mandats de son mari o\u00f9 elle joua un r\u00f4le politique important. Mais Hillary n’est pas, en 2008, dans la m\u00eame position de FDR-le-ha\u00ef en 1936, 1940 et 1944, ses trois r\u00e9\u00e9lections, o\u00f9 il \u00e9tait au poste id\u00e9al pour la r\u00e9\u00e9lection de pr\u00e9sident en exercice.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tQuoi qu’il en soit, on ne voit pas quelle autre manuvre \u00e9lectorale entreprendre pour surmonter le handicap de cette opposition radicale contre Hillary Clinton, qui ne se d\u00e9ment pas malgr\u00e9 tous ses efforts. On notera alors que cela implique, par la force des choses, une radicalisation vers la gauche (au niveau int\u00e9rieur) de Hillary, ce qui est en partie en marche avec son tournant strat\u00e9gique<\/a> vers l’\u00e9conomie comme principal argument de campagne. On remarque \u00e9galement que cette FDRisation de Hillary correspond \u00e0 des analyses insistantes sur la correspondance<\/a> 2008-1932. Un tel tournant doit, par effet indirect, favoriser une polarisation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la campagne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tDerni\u00e8re remarque, enfin. Cette intervention de Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., signifie-t-elle que le clan Kennedy soutiendra activement Hillary Clinton? Question pos\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 13 d\u00e9cembre 2007 \u00e0 14H24<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comme on le sait depuis longtemps, un des handicaps principaux de Hillary Clinton est, \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 d’une popularit\u00e9 un peu vacillante aujourd’hui chez les d\u00e9mocrates, la haine qu’elle suscite chez ceux qui ne sont pas ses soutiens inconditionnels. Cela fait qu’elle peut compter beaucoup moins sur des \u00e9lecteurs au d\u00e9part r\u00e9publicains anti-d\u00e9mocrates mais qui seraient… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4906,3184,3602,3278,1356,6167],"class_list":["post-69498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-4906","tag-fdr","tag-haine","tag-hillary","tag-kennedy","tag-presidente"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}