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The soldier. The worker. Homeland. Donald Trump today hoisted his most nationalist flag. In his address to the Republican bases, the president consummated the withdrawal of the United States to its own interests. It was the apotheosis of Trump more protectionist. A furious leader who has put at the top of his program the expulsion of immigrants, control of borders and now also one of the "greatest military efforts in its history." "No one will challenge us again. No one. I am not the president of the world, but the United States, "he cried.

Donald Trump sought the warmth of the Republicans. After a highly erosive month, the president elected the Conference of Conservative Political Action to cheer him up. The annual meeting awaited him anxiously. After eight years of drought, the great man came. The commander in chief who has promised to establish a new order. "You already have a president," he told them as he stepped onto the stage.

Trump did not disappoint his audience. But neither did he leave the script. Immigration, security, Obamacare, financial deregulation, media demonization ... The topics usually carried in the holster emerged in full. But this time he united them all under the banner of patriotism. "The future is ours. America will be bigger, bigger and stronger than ever, "he promised his followers.

Under this nationalist fervor, Trump appealed to a formula that rarely fails at rallies: the Army. A symbol of national unity, the president promised a massive increase in budget to achieve a defense "bigger, better and more powerful than ever before." "And let's hope we never have to use it, but no one is going to challenge us. No one. It will be one of the greatest efforts in history, "he said.

Recovered the military pride, but without offering more data, put the shot in one of the favorite targets: immigration. And there he had no mercy. Regardless of the negotiation he had with Enrique Peña Nieto, he pulverized all diplomatic forms and again brandished the construction of the wall with Mexico as a factor of prosperity and promised to accelerate its construction. "We are a country that loses work in its territory and delivers it outside. We are a country that defends the borders of other countries but not theirs. We have the bad guys inside and we're going to throw them out, "he said.

But the offensive is not limited to immigration. To keep America safe, you have to keep your eyes open. The planet, according to Trump, is an inhospitable place. The Islamist danger lurks out there. Because of him, Sweden Germany, France - "Paris is no longer Paris" - live difficult days. "Look what is happening in the world. It can happen to us. We have to be smart to avoid it. We are going to keep the Islamic terrorists out of our country, "he said.

In this representation of the world, globalization has not only damaged the domestic economy but has led the US to waste its energy away from where it is most needed. Trump explained it with a thorny example: Middle East: "We spent six trillion dollars there. And we are worse than before. With that money we could rebuild our country three times, "he said.

Conscious of the origin of his vows, he promised to bring these "wastefulness" back to deep America. Those industrial zones in decline, white majority, where Trump devastates. "I told Ford, Chrysler, Fiat, the big industry, to invest again here and now they are doing it."

Appeals to the working class were constant. Conservative and multimillionaire, Trump has specialized in constructing speeches that collect the discomfort of this population strip. Even his training colleagues invited them to join this wave: "The Republican Party is also the party of the American worker."

It was not a free request. Climbing onto the podium, Trump felt strong enough to appear as the leader of a party that for years took him for a wacko. That more than once denied him appear in his acts to consider him an outsider or worse: a stranger who only sought his personal benefit. Today, at the Conference of Conservative Political Action, he could see how he was rattled. It was not just the president. It was its president. And he direct.