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   […] the president's inability to appoint a new head of government; months of reflection at the highest levels of government to devise the best scenario for remaining in power, despite the elections and the absence of a majority; an openly pro-business supply-side policy consisting of subsidies to businesses and tax credits; self-justifying speeches defending this line by proclaiming ‘we are not the government of the rich’ and ‘the best social policy is employment policy’; employers who applaud and demand ever more; plans to reform the Constitution to strengthen executive power; constant backroom intrigues; commentators who gossip about the president's mood, his latest cold or his most recent grumble (sneeze? political brilliance? major decision?) in search of an oracle and interpretation; […]

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     […] authoritarian liberals who, once in power, consider resorting to force because they know full well that their policies are unpopular; those same authoritarian liberals who want to form an alliance with the far right, who back down because it wants too much, and finally take a gamble on entrusting it with power…"

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 03:58:30 JST Estelle Platini

     "A dogmatic austerity policy that exacerbates the crisis and poverty; an executive branch that pushes through measures to destroy the social model by a 48-2 vote; a social-democratic Left that supports this policy in an attempt, it says, to avoid the worst; a political regime that (...) is becoming presidentialised and concentrating exorbitant powers in the fallible hands of a man who is not overly intelligent, but proud and stubborn; the reign of entourages which, through a logic of reverse Darwinism, that of courtierism, promotes the most incompetent and least worthy, those who are willing to debase themselves to become “advisers” and then give anything but real advice; a failed dissolution; a second dissolution, dangerous and inept given the rise of the far right, but requested by that same far right and granted as a gesture of goodwill; a crushing defeat in the general election; the refusal to take the election results into account; […]

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     […] the condemnation of ‘extremists’ and the immediate clarification that some are more extreme than others, that those who defend the nation, values and property will always be preferable to the Left; a billionaire media mogul driven by a mission of national resurrection, who built a press and cinema empire to impose his framing, themes and agenda on a country that overwhelmingly supported peace and social justice […]; moral panics in -ism such as “cultural Bolshevism”, which is difficult to define but sums up all the fears associated with changing mores (feminism, homosexuality, urban lifestyles, etc.) and the general rise in education levels; a government overthrown in humiliating circumstances; another dissolution, another defeat and, once again, a refusal to take the result into account; a government in charge of day-to-day affairs that drags on; […]