Corriere della Sera called it Trump’s “most difficult night” and a decisive rejection of his policies, but cautioned against overstating the outcome. Predictions of the “funeral of the world’s oldest liberal democracy” had proved premature, it said, though it was unclear how the result would affect the US economy.
La Repubblica said Democratic majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate improved the party’s chances of blocking Trump’s agenda over the next two years. “More than a blue wave, this is a blue tsunami”, it said of the preliminary results.
Commentator Gianni Riotta described the night as “democracy’s revenge” and said American democracy had shown it was capable of “spontaneous renewal” after the populist experiments of the MAGA movement.
He said Trump “mistakenly believed that his re-election in 2024 was tantamount to the coronation of a monarch”, and had become absorbed in building monuments, naming lakes and oceans after himself and imposing tariffs that isolated him from old allies. He also pointed to what he called a war with Iran that lacked a strategy, was still under way and was “full of dangers”.
Corriere noted a “melancholy” at Trump’s final campaign rallies, where he began to speak of a possible defeat. It said the question of what a “weakened president in the White House” means for the world was an “open front”, being asked from Brussels to Beijing and from Kyiv to Moscow.
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Source: PAP