Guillaume Tabard: "The second attempt at an aggiornamento of macronism"

4/14/2020, 6:31:24 PM

COUNTERPOINT - A power trapped in its claim to be always right arouses rejection, a power which admits its limits inspires more understanding.

Is it because we were the day after Easter? Emmanuel Macron renounced the posture of the god Jupiter. The "warchief" remains a president who decides; as proof the decision to fix the deconfinement at May 11, where the scientific experts invited to give more time. But the president of the crisis, and even more that of the "day after" has for new compass "humility" . At the cost of renouncing the founding dogmas of macronism?

This new tone was a necessary prerequisite for restoring the credit of the word of the executive. After the mixture of incoherence and arrogance which had characterized too many ministerial words, a first turning point had been made when Édouard Philippe had admitted that it was sometimes necessary to know how to say "I don't know" . By recognizing "flaws" , "inadequacies" , Emmanuel Macron took a step closer to the mea culpa. A power trapped in its claim to always be right arouses rejection, a power