The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin. Photo by Bertrand Guay / AFP via Getty Images PARIS – When Gérald Darmanin, France’s unapologetically right-wing interior minister, told an interviewer from the Journal du Dimanche in March that he refuses “to surrender to the far-left’s intellectual terrorism”, it was the culmination of weeks of deliberate baiting of Emmanuel Macron’s critics on the left. The term “intellectual terrorism” was popularised by Jean Sévillia, a nationalist essayist who in recent years has grown closer to the hard-right pundit and former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour. The expression has since been adopted by many figures across...
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