France is not dead yet
I am now thinking that maybe this gamble was not so crazy. I say this cautiously, without totally believing it because, since the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly, I have been through all the stages. First of all, I thought and said publicly, in the heat of the moment, that we should indeed, yes, absolutely, ask the country whether the 40% or so of the vote that went to the extreme right was only an expression of anger or of a real desire to bring the Lepenists to power. I was convinced that we had to go through this moment of truth, because in my view it was impossible for 4 out of 10 French people to have swung to the extreme right, but the next day, Monday morning…