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After Zemmour, it is up to Mélenchon to focus the magnifying glass effects and to be provoked, accused or overinvested. These two aren’t that different though…
by Kamel Daoud
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Un media burial, this is done without digging a grave and it is celebrated with well-kept indifference. Thus, Zemmour owes his (media) death to what made his political “life” in the media. Zemmour, we don’t see him anymore. There is a beyond of the political which is more definitive than incineration. And today ? It is another that concentrates the effects of magnifying glass: Mélenchon. It is, suddenly, disappointing in itself because, seen from outside France, this man offers nothing other than what makes the political cast at the time of digital populism, namely: to feed the anger, making utopian promises, verbally embodying a dangerous spite, rallying grudges. Is it different from Zemmour? Barely, even if it means scandalizing. To pastiche Gorki, if…
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