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Christophe de Voogd: "The French are tired of the abuses of the communication"

2021-09-30T11:45:12.370Z


INTERVIEW - According to Aristotle, the speaker's personality could well be the key to political conviction, this specialist in rhetoric reminds us.


Normalien, associate and doctorate in History, Christophe de Voogd teaches political rhetoric and “past uses” at Sciences Po.

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LE FIGARO.- The start of the presidential campaign saw the most radical speeches prevail.

Faced with the latter, is Macron's strategy that of embodying the camp of the reasonable?

Christophe DE VOOGD.

- Allow me a preliminary remark: it is first of all this word of "radicalism" which tends to impose itself in the debate of the campaign, and that deserves correction.

Because radicalism is the desire to go to the “root” of the problems and to propose solutions up to the stakes.

As such, in 1958, faced with the triple institutional, financial and colonial challenge, de Gaulle was indeed “radical” by changing the fundamentals in three areas: new Republic, drastic economic reforms, decolonization.

In contrast, the speeches of a Sandrine Rousseau or an Eric Zemmour are not radical but extremist.

The difference is size.

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Source: lefigaro

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