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Ministers and officials of the outgoing majority must remove this equal sign between the extreme right and part of the left. By confusing “circle of reason” and “republican arc” the Macronists are weakening the barrier against the extreme right.
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Sometimes, when times are serious, to be up to the situation and also to be effective, the electoral strategy must be based on fundamental principles. These crucial days, the Macronists are not there. They therefore risk disappearing in indignity. They play tactics (bad strategy devoid of principles) and do not rise, with the all too rare exception of some (Bernard Guetta, Clément Beaune or Agnès Pannier-Runacher), to the height of the tragedy of history. The Macronian line is therefore as follows: before the first round, continue to establish an equal sign between LFI (and by capillarity the New Popular Front) and the RN. We abandoned the idea of convincing the Macronists of the stupidity and injustice that this equivalence, this back-to-back, constitutes.
The RN program is however riddled with xenophobic and liberticidal projects, its history attests to its deep and barely concealed intention. Nothing like this in the left’s program. The Macronists do not have this vision of things and the anti-Semitism trial, facilitated by
