The government of the best.
This was already Kennedy's slogan when he arrived at the White House in 1961. It was also Giscard's when he entered the Elysee Palace in 1974. And Macron's promise in 2017, well after that of Fabius or Juppé.
Each time, the same scenario is written: a team of brilliant young guys, graduated from the best schools, promises a dazzled people, to govern it according to the laws of intelligence, reason, knowledge, competence .
It is the eternal return of Saint-Simonian prophecy:
"the administration of things" will
replace
"the government of men"
;
but this prophecy ends badly, with a divorce between the people and the "best of us".
We always come back to the famous phrase of Pompidou on Giscard, which applies to all his successors:
"his problem is the people".
One can legitimately wonder about such a curse.
Adrien Louis sought the answer from the best authors: Aristote, Pascal, Tocqueville.
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