Every morning, Nicolas Beytout analyzes the political news and gives us his opinion.
This Wednesday, he is interested in the image of "nice guy" of Joe Biden a few hours before his inauguration in the White House.
According to him, it is to be hoped that the new American president will not be hostage to this well-thought in the name of freedom of thought.
In a few hours, Joe Biden will enter the White House.
And almost everywhere in the West, we will applaud the coming to power of this "nice guy", this good guy.
Donald Trump gone, it is the end of a crazy sequence, that of a president who, on the contrary, had, upon his arrival, seemed suspicious or detestable to this same large part of Western public opinion.
It must be said that he really had everything to be worrying.
Joe Biden, on the contrary, cultivates his reassuring character.
It is true, his predecessor was dangerous and systematically sought to collide head-on with the consensual, even if it meant insulting and upsetting the right-thinking.
And in the United States, the self-righteous has become like an all-pervading religion.
It imposes its rules, its liturgy, its high masses.
And she excommunicates those who do not respect this new progressive catechism.
It is a phenomenon that has become very noticeable in places which should, on the contrary, be hotspots of debate and controversy, and which are now shrinking more and more by refusing different thinking.
These places are universities and the press.
In American universities and colleges, the dominant thought, overwhelming even, is racialist, follower of the theory of gender.
We have seen teachers being banned from class if they refused to apologize for being white.
And this bad wind has already invaded the press.
Do we have any examples?
Dailies as famous as the NY Times or the Washington Post close their pages of debate to those who do not think in accordance with this new "progressivism".
Cartoons are even banned, drawings must not make fun of religion, sex or gender.
And what is most worrying is that this form of censorship is happening in France.
It's already noticeable in some universities.
And in the press, Le Monde has just withdrawn a cartoon (rather bad taste) on incest, and, under pressure from social networks, apologized for having published it.
Incredible turnaround on the part of a media which defends the publication of caricatures of Muhammad but refuses the chilling humor on incest (while its position towards this crime is unambiguous: it is even this newspaper that launched the campaign ).
Nicolas Beytout does not know if Joe Biden is really a "nice guy", but what is certain is that we must hope, in the name of freedom of thought, that he will not be held hostage by this part of its electorate has become so powerful, including for export.