Emmanuel Macron knows it more than any other: politics is a matter of symbols.
This salon of the refused, as in these days when History crystallizes, contains a mess.
The first of these is the isolation of power.
In Giraudoux, the powerful watch the war from their balcony;
at the Agricultural Show, France saw, live, the head of state barricaded, upstairs, on the first floor, in the company of a group of trade unionists, journalists, surrounded by the police.
Below, thousands of ordinary people waited patiently for the doors to be opened.
The stroll that followed reproduced this same pattern with the moving border of the police and the organized separation between the president and his citizens.
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Also a symbol of the exhaustion of the verb.
Certainly, Emmanuel Macron was shocked in the face of the cross-questions of the “yellow caps”, but we did not find the supercharged candidate of the eternal grand oral.
The great debate has shrunk, the eloquence...
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