Just as in America, a tottering ruling establishment plays the only card it has left: fear.
Largely lost amid the fallout from the shock over Joe Biden’s health during his June 27 debate with Donald Trump in Atlanta is the president’s disparagement of anyone who would vote for his Republican opponent as an enemy of democracy. Across the Atlantic, a similar demonization of citizens is happening in France as a fragile ruling political establishment struggles to hold onto the reins of power in the nations of the West.
In a surreal question for a presidential debate forum, CNN co-moderator Jake Tapper asked Biden: “Do you believe that the tens of millions of Americans who are likely to vote for President Trump will be voting against American democracy?”
For one of the few times that evening, Biden did not hesitate. “The…
