Conservatives as Nazis: the Non-Argument of Last Resort

The derangement syndrome seems perpetual, and Plantu has been warming up for SDS for about three. Woop-dee-doo, I say – what do you expect from a society where this kind of grand-parental behaviour is normal enough to figure into the public mind:

"I'll miss Chirac in the same way you'd miss your granddad who used to nick the cash you left in the kitchen," says Le Monde's cartoonist Plantu.

That unwittingly bizarre reflection about Chirac just might be finest paean of the man ever written.