CIt is certainly not the subject that monopolizes counter conversations (sorry, terrace). But social networks are responsible for spreading the rumor and transforming it into certainty that exhilarates the politico-media world. The microcosm, said Raymond Barre. CNews chain gondola head, Eric Zemmour would consider embarking on the presidential campaign. The Politico site reveals that he met Patrick Stefanini, campaign champion. Not his – he never won an election – but those he led for Jacques Chirac in 1995, Valérie Pécresse in 2015 or François Fillon in 2016. The one who was prefect of Aquitaine confirmed the Elysian appetite of Zemmour while specifying, with wisdom, that one should not confuse individual notoriety, even sympathy, and political adhesion.
It is one thing to publish books that sell tens of thousands of copies, to grapple on a TV set with the best leftist, known as “right-thinking”, to collect compliments and convictions (some of them judicial), to be the herald of weeklies which boost their circulation when they put your name on the front page.
“Who can believe that Eric Zemmour is a serious competitor in the Elyos marathon and that there is nothing more to lose than to win? “
It is quite another to travel through towns and villages across France, to swallow up kilometers by car or train, to shorten your nights, to talk in sometimes deserted rooms, to shake hundreds of hands in a market or when leaving a company, to take an interest in people who have been forgotten the next day and no longer see your family, to embody the hope of a team that you have to be able to pay, with this sword of Damocles of 5%. Controversy is one profession, politics is another. Éric Zemmour knows it. When he was a journalist, he followed the leaders of the right for a long time, including a certain Jacques Chirac, a tireless campaign general.
Like carbon dioxide, the anguish of winegrowers, celebrity can turn its head and cause discomfort. Who can believe that Eric Zemmour is a serious competitor in the Elyos marathon? Nobody, apart from the single-minded plotters, They too are caught up in the gear of the editorial tom-tom which forces, for each program or each book, to utter increasingly shattering and often misleading statements. As a candidate, he would lose more than he would gain, starting with his comfortable chairs at “CNews” and “Figaro”.
We do know, however, who would suffer. Who would chomp on someone who claims that “most delinquents are black or Arab”, that “Pétain protected the Jews of France” or that “immigrant minors are all rapists, all murderers”? The answer is easy, you don’t need to have done the ENA to find it.
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