The huge success of the blockbuster in the Paris cinemas was enough.De Gaulle's Battle” to unleash in France, faced with the political miseries of the present, nostalgia for the General Charles De GaulleBut, incredibly, among the most daring to somehow claim its political legacy are the leaders of the two opposing and converging populisms: Marine Le Pen e Jean Luc MelenchonIt takes a lot of nerve to pretend to be De Gaulle's heirs because they have absolutely nothing to do with the General's ideas. But someone will remind Le Pen, who is the heir of a party founded by her father and the nostalgics of Vichy, that on June 18, 1940, the General launched from London, via the BBC, a heartfelt appeal to the French people to give life to the resistance against the Nazi invader? And someone will remind you that De Gaulle, long before he became President of France, Was he the head of the French Committee of National Liberation and a symbol of the fight against Nazi-fascism? Between Le Pen and de Gaulle, the red line of anti-fascism prevents transformist operations.
As for Mélenchon, his claim of political affinity with de Gaulle is no less pathetic. One can criticize the General's questionable Grandeur policy and some of his polemical stances against the US, NATO, and the EEC, not to mention his opposition to the student protests of May '68. But no one can forget two fundamental aspects: that de Gaulle was often in strong conflict with the left, but that his political stature, far removed from personal ambitions, cannot even remotely be compared to that of a mediocre pro-Russian maximalist like Mélenchon, who, by splitting the center-left, risks opening the doors of the Élysée Palace to Le Pen's far-right.
