Democracies without time. Politics must be freed from excessive personalization and apocalyptic drama.
Emergencies favor an elitist style of governing, a protagonism of the executive power. Governing in a key of urgency erodes, above all, the democratic value of pluralism. If we are facing the end of the world, there is no reason to make protests, says the writer. The slogan of the “yellow vests” is “Yellow vests, the end is near”.