The American Prospect<\/em>, l’accusation lanc\u00e9e contre DSK, comme explication de tous ses d\u00e9boires, de n’avoir plus rien de la gauche, de se contenter d’une \u00e9tiquette grotesque de socialiste qui est si d\u00e9risoire et impudente lorsqu’on conna\u00eet ce que fut son comportement politique et personnel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tUn mot int\u00e9ressant dans ce texte, \u00e0 son tout d\u00e9but, sur lequel il faudra revenir (et sur lequel nous reviendrons sans aucun doute, dans une analyse plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale) : \u00abThe apparent<\/em> self-destruction<\/em><\/strong> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe apparent self-destruction of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a New York hotel is emblematic of a European left that has ceased to be much of a progressive alternative, either in terms of lifestyle or policy alternatives. Strauss-Kahn, who until yesterday headed the International Monetary Fund, was the Socialist front-runner to challenge French President Nicolas Sarkozy next year. Polls showed that Strauss-Kahn well ahead of both Sarkozy and far right populist Marine Le Pen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut even before this latest scandal broke, Strauss-Kahn didn’t seem like much of a socialist. Last week, the press caught DSK, as the local press calls him, and his wife tooling around in a borrowed $150,000 Porsche, which reinforced his image as wealthy playboy. In 2008, Strauss-Kahn barely survived a widely publicized affair with one of his IMF employees, and in the wake of the New York incident, another woman has stepped forward claiming a rape in 2002.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbCynics here have argued that the wily Sarkozy promoted his likely rival for the IMF post to increase the chances that the imperious Strauss-Kahn would commit some highly visible and politically fatal act. For demolishing the Socialists’ claim to speak for the common Frenchman and woman, it’s hard to beat an accusation of the entitled Socialist standard bearer orally raping a chambermaid in a $3,000 luxury hotel room and then trying to skip town.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe last successful French socialist president, the dignified Francois Mitterrand, was known as la force tranquille (the quiet strength.) After the Porsche photos surfaced, Strauss-Kahn was instantly dubbed la Porsche tranquille. Mitterrand did not have a lavish lifestyle. He did discretely keep a mistress. They had a daughter together, whom Mitterrand acknowledged and faithfully visited. Among French leaders, this passes for personal probity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbFrench voters are increasingly sick of Sarkozy, whose cheesy behavior and deep cuts in French social benefits have led to a search for alternatives. But even before this episode, Strauss-Kahn looked like nothing so much as a faux-left version of Sarkozy. The latest outrage leaves voters to feel that elites, regardless of professed party identity, serve mainly themselves, their own megalomania, tawdry materialism and sense of invulnerability.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe larger casualties of this mess include the French Socialist Party, a more progressive IMF, and the credibility of public officials and institutions in general.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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