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Mathieu Bock-Côté: “The war of the three rights”

2022-01-21T19:26:18.687Z


CHRONICLE – The French right is divided today into three large families, believes the columnist. And each believes itself called to dominate the others.


It is customary, when speaking of the French right, to speak of it in the plural, using the categories forged in the mid-1950s by René Rémond, who distinguished in his ranks the Legitimists, the Orleanists and the Bonapartists.

If it is not certain that this typology is still relevant, the fact remains that the rights are plural, and more exactly divided, in struggle against themselves, and often anxious to position themselves advantageously in a system politico-ideological whose parameters they do not fix, and which inhibit them.

They are so first because they have internalized the moral prohibitions preached by the left, which always forces the right to define itself against what the left calls the extreme right, without anyone really knowing how to define this category. as diabolical as it is ghostly, and even if ideas that today are classified as “far right” were still at the heart of the classic right a few years ago…

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Source: lefigaro

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