Jacques Julliard: "The crisis of the republican conscience"

Jacques Julliard is an editorial writer for the weekly "Marianne".

Certainly, we were promised that after the coronavirus crisis nothing would be like before. But we weren't told that everything would be worse now.

A distressed France

What to start with? By the most unpredictable, the most baroque, by this racial-worldly anti-racism, much more virulent, much more absurd than formerly the "yellow vests". With the escort of show biz circles, more hypocritical, more Pharisee, more opportunist than before; and also the "leftist intellectuals" who are more follower, more sleeping dogs than in the Stalin era, and I know the enormity of what I am saying!

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Then come the politicians who, once again, have learned nothing and forgotten nothing, with on the far left a François Ruffin worse than Mélenchon, on the right a Jacob worse than Jacob, and between the two a Socialist Party equal to himself in insignificance. I was going to forget the favorites of the hour, these big green beasts, who for the most part

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