Like the Gilets jaunes the authorities hope to grind this coalition down by police intimidation, scare stories of violence and the appearance of concessions.
“ The capital had offered two buildings, large enough to give emergency accommodation for all, if the central government would only cough up… No such luck. Bayrou never got asked about that.”
“What mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, did add was that, as things are at the moment, France could well end up with a ‘democratic crash’ in that election.”
The sole beneficiary is the far Right leader who helped turn laïcité from a fine democratic value into a justification for prejudice and discrimination.
Ten months into the epidemic and it is the virus and the right who are in control. The left can’t just wait in hope for the world after to be different.
