Macron’s grand debates mismatched the movement’s speculative politics.

Evidence

Dialogue was President Macron’s way of appeasing the public opinion: the government staged a series of grand débats (grand debates) in early 2019 as part of a “nationwide public consultation” in response to the Gilets Jaunes protests. Both the content and the style (hierarchical, formulaic) of the debates were ostentatiously out of tune with the movement and its demands. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 337

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: De Gaulle misjudged the F.L.N.’s political rather than military nature. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 946; Contemporary political movements emerge from speculation rather than rational calculation — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 553; Polanyi’s double movement misses the speculative imagination of financialized populism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 269
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: De Gaulle misjudged the F.L.N.’s political rather than military nature. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 946; Contemporary political movements emerge from speculation rather than rational calculation — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 553; Polanyi’s double movement misses the speculative imagination of financialized populism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 269