Pierre Manent: "It's been a long time since we quietly emerged from the democratic and liberal regime"

LE FIGARO. - The crisis that we are living seems to act as a return of the State, after decades of theorizing of its disengagement. "We must rebuild our national and European sovereignty," even admitted President Emmanuel Macron. Is the idea of ​​a nation making a comeback?

Pierre MANENT. - While waiting for the “next day”, we observe the return of the least pleasant features of our State. In the name of the health emergency, a state of emergency was in fact instituted. Under this state, the most primitive and brutal measure was taken: general confinement under police surveillance. The speed, the completeness, the glee even with which the repressive apparatus was set in motion make a painful contrast with the slowness, the preparation, the indecision of the health policy, that it is masks , tests or possible treatments. Exorbitant fines strike innocent or benign deviations. It is forbidden to leave your home

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