Arnaud Benedetti is associate professor at Paris-Sorbonne University. He is editor-in-chief of the political and parliamentary review. He publishes
How are the politicians dead?
- The great malaise of power
(editions of Cerf, November 2021).
It's a sequence, a media vignette that speaks for itself.
It combines Pavlov, Freud and... Gaston Lagaffe all at the same time.
Above all, it could announce the start of a trajectory, that of an executive who is too sure of himself and forgets that between his reappointment and the French, there is just a democratic rite called election by direct universal suffrage.
Wanting to disqualify the journalist's arguments, he [Gérald Darmanin] brought them back to the expression of discredit-suitcase with which macronism, progressivism and bohoism abound as soon as reality jumps out at them...
Arnaud Benedetti
Faced with Apolline de Malherbe who reminded him of some bad numbers in terms of security, Gérald Darmanin used the rhetoric of the poor.
Wanting to disqualify the journalist's arguments, he reduced them to the expression of discredit-suitcase with which Macronism, progressivism and boboism abound when the real is obvious to them: "populism" thus denounced the Minister of interior who no longer holds back in admonishment also attacked the TV set of BFMTV's direct competition, namely CNews.
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Suddenly, the
strike
turned against its initiator who appeared both inelegant not only vis-à-vis his interviewer but also against an entire profession which denounced in the same impetus in the minutes following the strike.
show the minister's behavior.
The Pavlovian barrage -
reductio ad
"populism" - was also coupled with a Freudian admission: the contempt, the presumptuousness of this permanent assurance which some suspect would constitute the haunting note of Macronism, as if the power was incapable of conjuring up its own antidote to the morgue that threatens at any moment to overflow its democratic bed.
Gérald Darmanin thus cruelly recalled the rough edges of an entire mandate.
A return of the inopportune repressed not far from April 10.
Arnaud Benedetti
This lack of behavioral restraint designates an impression that has operated for five years as the informal repository of macronie.
This com 'freewheeling a few weeks before the first round of the presidential term reactivates like a "bad reputation" which obviously questions what could be the result of a power renewed in office.
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It is therefore the third part of a bad triptych illustrated by the ministerial "exit": a triple blunder which underlines both the questionable record of the executive on a sovereign issue which will polarize the campaign until its end , a relationship to the exercise of responsibilities which does not have the antibodies essential for immunization against any form of arrogance or
hubris
, a problem of acceptability of contradiction and counter-powers.
Gérald Darmanin thus cruelly recalled the rough edges of an entire mandate.
A return of the inopportune repressed not far from April 10.