Deconstruct deconstruction. It is the ambition (not the least) that the National Rally set itself, this Friday, at the house of Latin America in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Organized by the Identity and Democracy Foundation, the symposium devoted to “wokism” welcomes several speakers to decipher this phenomenon against which the party to the flame intends to fight. “The question is whether it is an ideology with a political objective, sectarianism or a passing fad”, specifies Mathilde Androuët, RN MEP and president of the ID Foundation. In the room, the initiators of this colloquium: Philippe Olivier and Patricia Chagnon, European parliamentarians, accompanied by a few national elected officials, and dozens of activists and sympathizers.
It is in front of a full house, therefore, that Jordan Bardella, president of the party, opens the sequence. Criticizing a “new Rousseauism” (“that of Sandrine, not that of Jean-Jacques”), he calls for “preserving the public space from this puritanism”. “After the obsolescence of God, here comes that of Men and the West. This movement, which wants to erase the values that we carry, leads us into a general and civilizational regression”, he declares, invoking the need to “lead this fight for the Republic”.
He succeeds Olivier Vial, president of the UNI, and founder of the Observatoire du wokisme (present in particular at the last colloquium of Éric Zemmour’s party on April 5), which traces the history of the castigated movement, and points out the different places “where wokism can nest”. Olivier Vial is concerned about the sensitivity of young people to “wokist” theses, real “ferments of demobilization of young people which will lead them to do permaculture in ZAD while countries are preparing for more considerable geopolitical issues.”
This is followed by the speech of François Bousquet, editor-in-chief of the very neo-rightist review Elements (who replaced at short notice his colleague singled out by an article in Liberation for his proximity to anti-Semitic networks), who analyzes the “nature of wokism” summarized by the metaphor of “Caliméro”. “The wokists see everything in black and think they are victims of persecution, and it is up to us, bearers of white and European privilege, to foot the bill,” he said. And to conclude: “The objective of the woke is to abolish what they consider to be our privileges, as on the night of August 4, 1789.”
In the public, Roger Chudeau, RN deputy who announced last week the creation of a transpartisan association intended to fight against the phenomenon (of which only executives of the RN and Reconquest are part for the moment), agrees. He himself also intends to take up the issue at the national level, and will finalize the final details next week, during a meeting to launch the association. We already know that Joëlle Mélin, MP and doctor by profession, will work on the issue of gender transitions. The frontists also hope to attract academics not from their political seraglio, in particular those who participated in the colloquium on the same subject organized by Jean-Michel Blanquer. The idea, too, is not to leave the monopoly of the “counter-woke” ideology to Reconquest, while the party of Éric Zemmour has positioned itself on the subject. “We too are capable of thinking about conservative subjects,” concludes a frontist executive.