Romney Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/romney/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:41:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Romney Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/romney/ 32 32 Romney or France’s Anti-Republican Obsession https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/romney-or-france-s-anti-republican-obsession/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=romney-or-france-s-anti-republican-obsession https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/romney-or-france-s-anti-republican-obsession/#respond Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:24:22 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/romney-or-france-s-anti-republican-obsession/ In his book The Anti-American Obsession, philosopher Jean-François Revel exposed French fantasies and clichés on the United States and towards its President. It is customary in France to poke fun at US Presidents, treating them like morons who have gotten elected head of state in some miraculous fashion: Nixon was thus a dangerous reactionary, Carter simply a “peanut salesman”, Reagan “an excited cowboy”, George W. Bush “a real idiot”. Two Presidents have largely escaped French insults: Clinton and Obama. Both are Democrats, the first being elected after “the disaster of the Reagan era”, the second after the “terrible years of Bush Jr”.

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