Because his political Islamism loathes French secularism, Muslim Brother Recep Tayyip Erdogan prescribed Emmanuel Macron
“mental health examinations”
.
The level of the insult makes you want to cry out with Cyrano:
"It's a bit short young man! ... But in spirit, you never had an atom ..."
The Elysee retorts that
"the excess and rudeness is not a method ”.
Yes, unfortunately.
In a column titled "The policy of insult"
,
academician Georges Duhamel already noted on October 14, 1938 on the front page of
Le Figaro
(he was then targeting Hitler and Göring) that the insult has the function of
"striking the multitudes and to exasperate the adversary ”.
This is why it is an instrument of choice for the populists: from a Brazilian minister Bolsonaro calling him an
“opportunist moron”
to Donald Trump mocking his
“stupidity”
for wanting to tax the American internet giants, they are showing a strange predilection to pay the head of the French president ...
The desire for personal humiliation
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