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Notepad: Macron, weakened, isolates himself in a dead end

The political spectacle staged by Emmanuel Macron lets see its falsehoods. In wanting to seduce left and right, the president becomes confused and stiffens. His “complex” thinking is a sham. It’s this masquerade that Nicolas Hulot denounced Tuesday on France Inter, by improvising his resignation from the Ministry of the Ecological Transition. “I don’t want to lie anymore,” said the former television host, freed from his puppeteer. Macron welcomed the return of the peoples to the Conference of Ambassadors on Monday […]”, in the manner of the populists. In a flowing speech, the president nevertheless multiplied the attacks against the” nationalists “, who are the revealers of this awakening of identities. Now this double game has become ineffective: ecology declaimed in slogans can only produce fake, the denunciation of “rising leprosy” cannot be reconciled with the flattery of the Forgotten. Presidential cynicism leads to an impasse.

Before the diplomats, the head of state also cited Alexandre Solzhenitsyn and his Harvard speech, made forty years ago. The Russian dissident diagnosed the “decline of courage” in the West, which Macron says he wants to stop. But the enrollment of the writer is a mistake. The “progressive humanism” on which the head of state relies is an idea that Soljenitsyne was dabbling in: he saw it as the source of the disaster of the materialist West and cut off from all transcendence. Macron seeks to demonize the Hungarian Viktor Orban and its Eastern European allies, mobilized against mass immigration and for the sovereignty of peoples. However, it was Solzhenitsyn who declared: “It cannot be denied that the personalities are weakening in the West, while in the East they are constantly becoming firmer and stronger.” Macron fights those whom the whistleblower of the gulag would have defended.

Too many dissimilar postures make the prodigal president an awkward juggler. Macron would have benefited from embracing the cause of the rebels. (The following here)

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