“George Washington had expressed this beautiful and just idea: ‘The nation which indulges in feelings of love or hatred towards another becomes in a way a slave. She is a slave to his hatred or his love ””, writes Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America.
The maxim taken from the “testament” of the first president of the United States today finds a certain resonance with the attitude of a part of the French left, suddenly enamored of “Biden-mania”. After having willingly poured into a visceral anti-Americanism, she is now swooning in front of the current tenant of the White House, Joe Biden, who would have become the compass of all fiscal, budgetary, and even environmental policies.
Anthology: “The epidemic that Macron fears the most: bidenitis. “Tax the rich and the multinationals.” What if this virus crossed the Atlantic? “, wonders the deputy (La France insoumise, LFI) of the Somme, François Ruffin. “I am Biden rather than Macron”, brags the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure. “I have the impression that Joe Biden took his card from the Communist Party”, dares Fabien Roussel, the PCF candidate for the presidential election of 2022. As for Yannick Jadot, the MEP Europe Ecology-The Greens, he declared on March 29: ” I am for the end of nuclear power, 100% (…) Let’s be in Biden’s camp (…) and not in that of a terribly dangerous conservatism. “
This unanimity is touching, but it feeds on many approximations, even a lack of knowledge of the United States. Love is very blind. The observation also works when it comes to distance yourself from Uncle Sam. As evidenced by the recent speech of Anne Hidalgo in the Sunday newspaper on his possible candidacy for the 2022 presidential election. “I am not in favor of a primary. An American-style primary is aimed at the entire electorate. In France, it is not the same logic: it mobilizes especially the militants or the sympathizers. “ In short, like…. in the United States, where, in a majority of states, only voters registered as affiliated with a party have the right to participate in the nomination of the candidate who will represent their camp.
The ball of illusions
No luck for Yannick Jadot either, because Joe Biden is not the anti-nuclear activist he idealizes. This energy, neutral in terms of carbon emissions, is one of the levers that the United States intends to use to achieve the objectives set within the framework of the Paris climate agreement that they have just reinstated.
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