Poison upon poison. In France, Marine Le Pen’s advance worries the left-wing intelligentsia quite a bit. And so the philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy speaking at RepIdee together with the director of Republic, Maurizio Molinari speaks of the “Italian case” and sprays venom on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini: “These elections are truly a truth operation – explains the philosopher – the question that President Macron asks is the following: ‘do you really want Le Pen in power? Do you really want far-right populists to take over the institutions, do you really want people like Matteo Salvini. This is the question Macron asks.”
But why – insists Molinari – did so many French people vote for the far right? “Why did so many Italians vote for Salvini and Meloni? – replies the philosopher – because the French and Italian lefts are collapsing. The reasons are the same and the consequences are the same. Part of the responsibility lies with the Democrats and in particular with the left. I see it as France, the left got behind Mélenchon, agreed to come to terms with his party, which has become anti-Semitic. He agreed to compromise on essential things. Then we have the honest conservatives who have been making compromises with Le Pen for years, who play with ambiguities. One day all this takes its toll and you pay a very high price. You live under Meloni and Salvini, we will have the experience in France and we will not have learned the lessons of Italy. We are in this phase of European history”. Is Le Pen the French Meloni, asks Molinari? “Yes, and maybe even, one Melons plus Salvini”. In short, the usual arrogance of those who have not yet understood that the wind has really changed.
