Around 2,300 Americans live in Luxembourg at present, while on the other side of the pond, there are the descendants of more than 50,000 Luxembourgers who emigrated in the 19th century. In addition to the ancestral Luxembourgers, there are many residents of the Grand Duchy who have left Europe to join the diplomatic corps, the UN, attend university or otherwise find their way in the US.
Pierre Joris, a celebrated author and poet who moved to the US in the 60s, calls himself a "writer against Trump". Joris has experienced a plethora of presidential elections as an outsider, but after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 vote to Donald Trump, the writer applied for dual nationality so he could participate in the next election. This year, his vote has already been cast.
According to Joris, Trump has preyed upon the fears among the Anglo-Christian community to allow latent racism to rise to fever pitch in the US, supported by media outlets such as Fox News, as well as conspiracy theorists on social media.
Joris, who has spent much of his career writing English-language works, explained he was concerned that Trump would attempt to prematurely declare himself the winner of the 2020 election, even if the votes go in Joe Biden's favour, and expressed his fears over potential violent outbreaks.
The Luxembourgish author said he could envision military involvement as a last resort, but as a member of the Vietnam War generation, this would not be his preference.
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