Arnaud Benedetti is associate professor at Paris-Sorbonne University. He is editor-in-chief of the political and parliamentary review. He published
How are the politicians dead?
- The great malaise of power
(editions of Cerf, November 2021).
The Marseille meeting of Emmanuel Macron says all the paradox of the political moment that we are living.
Democratic confusion is at its height.
The outgoing president can believe in his renewal if we follow the polls, but the latter, moreover still uncertain, would pledge on a hiatus between the effectiveness of the result and the reality of the situation.
Macron, to say the least, does not arouse support, let alone enthusiasm.
It operates as a last resort for some, a lifeline for others anxious to preserve a status quo consistent with their systems of interests.
The performance of Marseille says from this point of view this state of affairs;
with a mobilization without relief, not to say of a sign of weakness for a candidate between the two rounds supposed to embody a republican “dam”, the exercise “metaphorized” the banality of macronism.
We replayed the dramaturgy of the "seriousness" of the hour all at once, we reactivated the repetition of reinvention, we finally "greenwashed" without complex a project which implicitly attested to the broken promises of the quinquennium which is coming to an end.
The histrionics were there, in the sense that he couldn't hide the facticity of the scene, even that he didn't even bother to.
On anti-lepenism, the room driver, a product roughly derived from the "tapisme" of the 1990s, was able to indulge in
unbridled insult of the voters of Marine le Pen by calling them "racists", like Bernard Tapie who did not hesitate several decades ago to make them "bastards".
On the triangulation, the melenchonisation of macronism was confirmed conjecturally by the recourse to one of the princeps proposals in terms of governmental engineering of the leader of LFI, recording the positioning of the environment in Matignon and the establishment of a ministry of ecological planning.
The enemy was targeted, denounced, at the risk of widening the already yawning gap between part of society and its ruling classes.
Arnaud Benedetti
Finally, the "complex" presidential thought knew how to materialize the good old Manichaeism of the ends of the campaign on the wire, where the democratic sauce is reduced to the binarity of the choices between the good that one claims to carry, and the evil that one points to the vindictiveness of opinions.
The macronist verb drew on the ready-to-speak of the old antiphons of a “republican front” whose ultimate dross manifests itself with a weakened but nevertheless continuous persistence.
The enemy was targeted, denounced, at the risk of widening the already yawning gap between part of society and its ruling classes, without measuring the consequences of what is deeply irreversible happening in the bowels of a fractured social body.
In Marseille, Macronist tightrope walking, without fervor or happiness,
reproduced its vertiginous march above the abyss.
He did it as usual, or anachronistic mimicry… Until when?