From Sandrine Rousseau to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, passing by Alexis Corbière, François Ruffin, Raquel Garrido or the unpayable Louis Boyard, the Insoumis and their subservient socialists like to believe that they are the modern reincarnation of the Jacobins of the hot years of the French Revolution.
They gladly dress up as Robespierre, Saint-Just or Couthon (a member of the revolutionary government who is one of the heroes of the book
Jacobins!
of M. Corbière) and actualize - or so they think - their promises of a new man.
We would be inclined to smile if our media and, alas, many citizens, did not take for Robespierrist lanterns what are only populist bladders, muddled recovery of interpretations of the Terror by the left, of the Marxist-Leninist doxa and a cloud of the Trotskyism of their youth.
The more they “talk”, the more we listen to them.
One wants to suppress (how?) the billionaires, the other likes that we want to “decapitate Macron as we have…
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