“It is harder to be a decent person for a week than a hero for fifteen minutes,” Jules Renar wrote at one time. In the field of politics, where the decency, first of all, is associated with fidelity, if not universal, then at least party ideals, this formula often gains a fateful meaning. It is precisely because of the lack of fidelity (not to confuse with personal devotion) conformists, among whom there are many mediocrity, can be heroes overnight.