How much government do they want? Nothing less than total
Picking up the Paris newspaper the Monde, Dalrymple comes across an article titled Effondrement, décroissance, relocalisation: comment la gauche pense l’après-coronavirus. There are, Dalrymple says,
no prizes for guessing
how the Left thinks of the post-coronavirus. An economist quoted in the article says:
One has seen, as in every crisis, the retreat of governments.
Dalrymple notes that the economist
omits to mention that public expenditure accounts for 56% of France’s GDP, and that one now needs a laissez-passer to leave one’s house or one will be fined by a policeman.
