Covid-19 strengthens states. Leaders everywhere lead, people obey. In France, confinement is respected, except in cities in rupture. A Jacobin euphoria prophesies the rebirth of republican centralism. But those nostalgic for statism would do better to assess the extent of public powerlessness: it is at the heart of the debacle of the national health system, presented by bureaucratic propaganda as unsurpassable.
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The France of standards, regulations, circulars is a ball hanging from the ankles of the government. He has shown himself, through his amateurism, unable to envisage the worst. Many evils are ancient; Emmanuel Macron cannot therefore be held solely responsible for it. However, his timely desire to embody the renewal of the sprawling welfare state amounts to prolonging the causes of the rout.
The administrative cumbersome which the government accommodates adds to its lack of preparation, its flip-flops, its slownessThe Macronian state, faced with the emergency, did not live up to its high ambitions. No doubt he was badly advised by
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