La Jeune Garde, judged “non-violent” by Sébastien Delogu on BFMTV, would therefore be a tough meditation club affiliated with LFI, where political action is carried out in a somewhat virile manner while calmly explaining that brutality is always found elsewhere. A strange atmosphere.
Since the heinous crime committed by the far-left against Quentin Deranque, literally massacred, questions have been raised about violence in politics. The discussion has focused on how political violence has shifted to the extreme left. A change in climate.
It is striking that it is no longer just about violent acts, both individual and collective, aggressive and sometimes deadly, but something more serious: violence seems to have become politics itself. Has violence become the means to pursue militant struggle and societal change?
With a grotesque inflation of war-related terms from the past like Nazism and fascism, there is an attempt to draw parallels between the imperfections of democracy and the horrors of those regimes. This extreme use of language trivializes a unique history and blurs the lines of condemnation for what is not properly named or timed.
This ongoing escalation, from words to actions, from insults to crimes, has permeated all aspects of political life, whether official or dissenting. It seems there is no longer any room for peaceful resolution through the ordinary mechanisms of a Republic that was rarely questioned but often invoked unnecessarily for trivial matters.
Adding to this spiral of unacceptability is the prevailing ideology of the far left and some supporting movements, which not only fail to repent for the sometimes atrocious consequences of misguided activism, but actually justify violence as a fundamental tool to achieve what dialogue and democratic voting have never managed to accomplish.
Current times have taken such an extreme turn that calls for calm and rational politics seem almost out of touch with the ongoing social and political unrest. The President was right to call for extremists to calm down and return to civilized political discourse. Efforts to avoid civil war in the past have led to defeat. Is today’s leader, Emmanuel Macron, facing a similar fracture and demise of our nation?
Also, the recent deadly events cannot be ignored, as some misguided activists stubbornly push their agenda. When Sebastien Delogu boldly states that “La Jeune Garde is not violent and I am proud of it” on BFMTV, it raises questions about the balance of someone who chooses to ignore reality and deny the undeniable.
As the 2027 presidential debate looms, the chosen candidate must possess a myriad of human, political, and technical qualities, but above all, the essential quality is to be a unifying and authentic president who can actually bring people together.
[Reference: Michel Winock – “La culture politique française est celle de la discorde et de la fureur”]
