The republic is beleaguered: Too many attackers and too few defenders, especially authorities fail, but there are some courageous people who dare to defend republican values.

Emmanuel Macron is not a supporter of terrorism or Islamism. It is worse: he does not even see the threat. In the wake of the gruesome attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, Macron said that French society must assume a “share of responsibility” in the “soil in which jihadism thrives.”