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Éric Zemmour and the French torment

2021-11-30T19:12:15.969Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Vincent Trémolet de Villers. Why Éric Zemmour? Why did a journalist, without a party, without a mandate, without any political experience, come crashing into this fall campaign? Certainly, the liquid society, that of the digital compulsion which allows the rolls of MacFly and Carlito at the Elysee and considers Cyril Hanouna as the moderator of the between-two-round debate, makes everything, even the unthinkable, possible. Ye


Why Éric Zemmour?

Why did a journalist, without a party, without a mandate, without any political experience, come crashing into this fall campaign?

Certainly, the liquid society, that of the digital compulsion which allows the rolls of MacFly and Carlito at the Elysee and considers Cyril Hanouna as the moderator of the between-two-round debate, makes everything, even the unthinkable, possible.

Yet it would be lazy to stop at this scum to understand the phenomenon.

The force of scandal,

"this pedestal of success"

(Balzac)?

It would be too easy.

Beyond the deleterious provocations, the poison of despair, the worrying absence of doubt that characterize Eric Zemmour, we should not forget what allowed its emergence: the torment of France.

The fear of economic downgrading, demographic transformation, cultural dispossession explains the great upheaval we are witnessing.

The Pangloss will tell us it's not so bad.

For them it may be the case, but

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Source: lefigaro

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