Everyone is, has been, or will be a victim.
Everyone has understood it, everyone is playing it.
There is no salvation today, only in the posture of victimhood.
Even political science is getting into tune.
When a renowned historian wants to praise the centrists in our political life, he feels compelled to explain to us that they are the unloved ones in our history, people we love to hate, to taunt, to ostracize, to vituperate.
Once we have closed the book, we tell ourselves that Jean-Pierre Rioux really laughed at us.
Here is a political family which has put one of its own at the Élysée;
and whose distant ancestors ruled the July monarchy, the Third and the Fourth Republic, more than a century of French history almost continuously.
And which, last but not least, has dominated intellectual and political life since the publication in the mid-1980s of
La République du center,
dear to the trio Furet, Rosanvallon and Julliard.
To read also:
Jacques Julliard: "Democracy in danger"
Of course, the centrists suffered brutality without
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