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Renaud Beauchard: "Macron and Mélenchon are the two faces of the American left"

2022-06-16T11:45:42.511Z


TRIBUNE - For the essayist, Nupes and Together! are the French duplicates of Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Rivals in appearance, they are also cousins ​​and tend to merge in a liberal-libertarian compromise, argues the author.


Renaud Beauchard is an essayist and lawyer in Washington.

He is the author of several remarkable works, in particular “Christopher Lasch.

A virtuous populism” (Michalon, collection “The common good”, 2018).

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The idea of ​​an ideological proximity between Emmanuel Macron and Nupes led by rebellious France seems incongruous.

We can however defend this thesis by summoning a whole philosophical thought which goes from Jean-Claude Michéa and Christopher Lasch to the American Catholic intellectuals Patrick Deneen (the author of the remarkable work

Why Liberalism Has Failed

), Gladden Pappin, Chad Pecknold and Adrian Vermeule who co-founded the Substack account The Postliberal Order.

A cohabitation between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron would officially seal what is basically only a convergence programmed since the 18th century of the two “theoretical moments” of the capitalist ideal, to paraphrase Michéa.

The first of these moments constitutes the metaphysical foundation...

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Source: lefigaro

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