All people of good faith finally recognize this. Emmanuel Macron confirmed what our teachers had taught us about the Fifth Republic: the classic left-right divide is the best antidote to the rise of extremism. And conversely, governing at the center, without an absolute majority, inevitably leads to an extremist alternation. Because it is reducing oneself to half measures and condemning voters to permanent dissatisfaction. This is the worst face that democracy could give to citizens without memory: inaction or, even worse, ineffectiveness. Positive actions have been overshadowed by the inability to restore order in the accounts, in the streets, at school, at the borders. But above all, this appalling decision to dissolve the Assembly plunges the country into total disarray.
The conditions of the electoral campaign on the ground are nightmarish with voters without guidance condemned in two weeks to choose between what would be in their eyes the “least worst”, the extreme right or the extreme left. As for the candidates from the center or the dying right, incapable of getting along while the worst is upon us, they can no longer hope, barring local exceptions, to save their seats from this hell. But the killing game doesn’t stop there. Because, in these moments of collapse, human nature often presents a mediocre face. The dissolution was followed by two major aftershocks: the shameful maneuver by the president of the Republicans to impose on his party an agreement with the far right, and the lamentable allegiance of the PS and Raphaël Glucksmann to La France insoumise. Two compromises which would strike down the left and right of government.
The worst will now be able to unfold before our astonished and helpless eyes: the magnificent stepping stone that the extreme left offers to the extreme right for its triumphant access to power. Mélenchon can only hope to take to the streets if Le Pen is in power. And this is how the last act of the tragedy plays out. Because it is now the far left which fuels the RN vote. Trivialization of anti-Semitism, messiness of the National Assembly, promotion of wokism, instrumentalization of Gaza to stir up communitarianism, open hatred of the rich and entrepreneurs, we will have been treated to the whole panoply: a destabilization which makes it today today the objective ally of the extreme right.
The provocations of this last week are no exception to the rule with among its candidates a man convicted of domestic violence, a triple S on file and several anti-police candidates. On the program side, the New Popular Front promises to repeal the separatism law, the global security law, the anti-squatting law, the immigration asylum law, and massive regularization of illegal immigrants. While such announcements are sure to mobilize RN voters on election day, they have another advantage. They saturate the media space and save precious time for the RN whose “famous” sovereign program is never questioned even though it is in fact absolutely indigent. On immigration, a concept of “double border” that no one understands. In terms of security, not a word about the fight against drugs, even though it is the primary cause of all our ills. Almost nothing about school. The economic and fiscal program is full of proposals likely to cause a very serious crisis and an immediate crash on the financial markets. But nothing prints. Nobody seems to want to hear the few cries of alarm, uttered with the energy of despair by a few experts, entrepreneurs or political leaders.
Between now and July 7, everything seems decided, inevitable, lost. The biblical parable of the golden calf is back. On June 18, in front of the Meaux war memorial, I spoke to my constituents about General de Gaulle. They listened to me. Politely. May his voice, like that of Jacques Chirac, who so alerted us to the risks of extremism, guide us when our poor country is plunged into cataclysm.