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Do we do politics differently at 34 or at 81?
In any case, Gabriel Attal standing in the middle of a farmyard on Friday, his notes placed on a bale of straw, made me think of Joe Biden, megaphone in hand, supporting the auto workers on a strike picket last September.
We'll see about the first, but a lot of good has come from the second, since the UAW, the powerful American automobile union, decided last week to support the candidacy of the outgoing president for the next election...
Joe Biden on an auto strike picket in Michigan on September 26, 2023. The UAW union supported his candidacy last week.
EVELYN HOCKSTEIN / REUTERS
As you can see, the long sequence since a week of great national communion around the cause of agriculture stimulates my penchant for cynicism a little.
It must be said that the needle on the hypocrisy meter is racing.
An executive in charge for seven years who says farmers are right to be angry;
compulsive producers of standards who pretend to mourn the damage;
slayers…
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