Public opinion is a funny horse. It can be hesitant, contradictory, and with a knockdown bring down the one it has advantageously worn. Fortunately, in a democracy, it is the vote that establishes legitimacy, not polls. In the crisis we are going through, the head of state, unlike his German or Italian neighbors, cannot, according to opinion polls, be supported by a majority assent. The successive muddles - municipal, masks ... - have broken confidence. The disorderly attempts to catch up have had the effect of quicksand: the one who remains motionless sinks, the one who moves sinks too. This episode is part of a crisis of authority that precedes, by far, the election of Emmanuel Macron.
The self-destruction of politics began when it voluntarily submitted to the rules of media compulsion, emotion, the "rubber tongue" (Jean-Pierre Le Goff), the frantic emptiness and cleavage of social networks.
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