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🇫🇷 France’s Civilizational Panic Market Boualem Sansal and Philippe de Villiers are selling the same alarm in different packaging: France, they say, is drifting toward the abyss, and the cure is a national wake-up call. In Le Figaro, they frame the moment as an “atmosphere of civilizational end,” with Sansal warning that French people do not hate France — they hate what has been done to it. That message lands because it speaks to a real fatigue, but it also belongs to a familiar political genre: the elegy as diagnosis, the diagnosis as campaign literature. De Villiers reaches for sovereignty, identity, school, immigration, and Brussels; Sansal adds the authority of an adopted Frenchman who says he was saddened to find his country weaker and more disoriented than before. Together they offer not a program so much as a mood — fear, regret, and a demand for national recovery. The problem is that France’s elites have turned decline itself into a permanent performance. Macron’s camp sells technocratic calm, the opposition sells rescue, and the entire system now survives by narrating the nation’s breakdown as if the narration were already a solution. That is how a republic ends up with everyone claiming to defend France while nobody can agree on what France is supposed to be. What makes this sharper is that the argument is not just about immigration or Islamism or Brussels. It is about a ruling class that keeps promising renewal while producing exhaustion, and about a political marketplace where civilizational anxiety has become one of the last profitable products left. France is being asked to choose between managerial drift and theatrical rebirth, and both sides sound increasingly like they are auditioning for the same funeral. #france#sansal#devilliers#macron#politics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸