What does the observer see when he looks at France? He discovers a torn country that collapses and loses its rank, while its current president admires and compliments himself. Sunday evening, Emmanuel Macron said he was satisfied ( "we have done well" ) with the conduct of the confinement, without dwelling on the rout of the Jacobin State, which for a long time was incapable of providing even masks. He welcomed his economic response - a mobilization of "nearly 500 billion euros" - leaving the economic abyss that awaits the overindebted and deindustrialized country in the dark. He said he wanted to "draw a new path", which he will outline in July. But is the Head of State ready to learn from the crises which, coming from afar, add up and explode under his mandate? They all lead to suggesting political actions which turn their backs on the universalist progressivism which it defends, in the name of an outdated modernity.
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