They’re playing with a Rubik’s Cube in Paris trying to cobble together a government. An Italian-job technocratic government? A national government of all talents? A wonky coalition in the hope that something turns up? Perhaps France might discover, like Belgium, that it does better with no government at all.
Emmanuel Macron, who has provoked this political nervous breakdown, normally rushes onto television to treat French voters to his subtle thoughts, and perhaps he will break his silence and confide in us. His prolonged silence has nevertheless been telling. He’s cornered.
Why he did this is inexplicable. He’s become the chained duck
Obviously by any rational criteria of job performance Macron is guilty of gross misconduct and should be escorted out of the building by security. It’s more complicated than that. Even though he is the architect of this capharnaüm the constitutional process of replacing him would add even more instability to the political entropy.
Paris is divided in three parts and has a strong resemblance to a circus, with an unruly crowd at the perimeter.
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