DECRYPTION – If the two populist leaders have nothing in common in substance, their respective electoral strategies, which expose them to demonization, are similar.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon's anti-Americanism is notorious. But this aversion to the United States does not prevent the man who managed to gather nearly 22% of the votes in the last presidential election from following with interest the political twists and turns of the most powerful democracy in the world. And to draw some lessons from it for its own electoral purposes. Even more than the victory of Donald Trump, the Mélenchonists focused especially on the defeat of Kamala Harris, immediately interpreted as confirmation that their strategy is the right one on this side of the Atlantic.
« The lessons of the US elections are edifying: 1) we do not defeat the reactionary far right without a clear alternative project, 2) we do not mobilize the people on a neoliberal line and without social and geopolitical ruptures »sketched the coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, on X Wednesday morning. In other words: in France like…
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