Book Notes: Xavier Poussard’s Becoming Brigitte

I can’t stop before exploring every aspect of an issue, which is why I read the book that inspired Candace Owens’ series about Brigitte Macron. I was hoping that Xavier Poussard would not suffer from the same degree of retardation as Candace and could at least explain what inspires the conspiracy.

On the positive side, Poussard is not a clinical moron. The English translation of the book (created by AI) does often make him sound like one but he’s not. At least, he doesn’t believe that Marie-Claude is a suspicious name, which is a welcome development.

Still, the conspiracists have absolutely nothing. They believe that the person we see on TV as Brigitte Macron is actually her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneau. The problem with this belief is that Jean-Michel Trogneau is currently living under his own name at his regular address. He is pushing eighty, so he’s retired but he appears in public. There’s video footage of him at both of Macron’s inaugurations, being chatted up and hugged by Macron.

The other problem is that it’s impossible to deny that Brigitte was a real person at least until her thirties. Her life is documented, and she gave birth to three children who are now adults. The conspiracists have no explanation for what they believe happened to the real Brigitte. For the brother to have taken her place, she must have willingly relinquished her children to him. And the children had to agree. The conspiracists aren’t even trying to explain this away.

In short, both the stupid Candace and the somewhat less unintelligent Poussard can’t make their own conspiracy sound plausible. The book is not a complete waste of time, though. It gives a glimpse into the origins of the conspiracy when Poussard lists the leading figures of the political left in France.

Monsieur Such and Such, advocate for open borders, refugee rights, and the return of jihadis. Convictions for incest and child pornography.

Monsieur This and That, defender of LGBT rights, open borders, women’s rights. Five arrests for child rape, child trafficking, pedophilia.

Monsieur Here and There, advocate for transgender youth, UBI, open borders. Convictions for child pornography, accusations of pedophilia and torture of children.

It goes on and on and on. The sheer number of pedophilia scandals that have plagued French politics for 30 years is quite stunning. Time and again, the French courts find that an 11-year-old child consented to sex with an adult.

So when Brigitte Macron gets slobbered over by the press for raping her 14-year-old student, for some people it’s intolerable but they don’t know how to make that point. It’s become normalized that even 11-year-olds want and aggressively seek out sex with adults. It’s not enough to say “she had sex with a child.” Nobody cares about such things any more. And people who still care don’t know how to explain even to themselves why they do. So they start to exaggerate. “She’s not only a pedo but a fraud. She stole her sister’s identity. She’s a he. She’s lying about everything.” If Poussard could make people care about pedophilia, I don’t think he’d ever have gotten into the conspiracy part.

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