On an identity tune
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At a meeting in a village in the South-West to support a Renaissance candidate for the legislative elections, the Minister of the Economy rolled out a disconcerting vulgate inspired by the obsessions of the far right, charging the “moral derailment” of the country, “caught in the pincers between Wokism and the rise of radical Islam.
When Bruno Le Maire poaches on the lands of the National Rally, he does not go there with the back of populism. On Thursday June 27 in Durban, a Gers town where he came to the rescue of outgoing Macronist MP Jean-René Cazeneuve, the Minister of Economy and Finance stirred up a slightly stale tune. On the platform of a village hall stuffed with retirees and rather passive farmers, the one who has, once again, exhausted “woodlice” of the Elysée – that is, the advisers accused of having inspired the risky project of dissolving the National Assembly – hammered home that the legislative elections “also had a cultural issue”.
According to the suspended tenant of Bercy, determined to protect the country “moral derailment” embodied by “the rebellious accomplices of Hamas”, “the French people have had enough of being caught between wokism and mounted it
