“We are never dead in politics”, quips Éric Zemmour

He doesn't shy away from his pleasure. A few hours after the triumphant victory of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the boss of Reconquête, Éric Zemmour, praised the performance of the Republican billionaire. While the former polemicist, holding, like the American septuagenarian, an anti-immigration and protectionist line, had been soundly beaten at the polls two years ago, he affirmed Wednesday evening on CNews that the former magnate of real estate embodies “the no of the revolt to what Kamala Harris embodies, the revolt of the Western people – and in particular of the American people to defend their identity.”

A source of hope for the one who was defeated in the presidential election then in the legislative elections of 2022, before seeing his party implode after the timid success in the European elections (barely more than 5% of the votes). “In politics, we are never dead. Old slogan, but as Coluche said: “Plus it suits me”he hoped, suggesting that his Elysee ambitions are intact. Other “lesson” that Éric Zemmour draws from this historic election: “We can win against almost the entire media system.” As a message of hope sent to his supporters at the sight of the red wave which crossed the United States on Tuesday. In this sense, the only Reconquest MEP, Sarah Knafo, deplored a little earlier on BFMTV “that we were burying men too early” of the «quenching » by Donald Trump or Éric Zemmour “who defend the true popular aspirations of Western peoples.”

“Americans want to stay American”

As for the position that will need to be adopted to regain color between now and the next electoral deadlines, the leader of Reconquête considers that victory is possible “if we do not renounce our ideas, by not giving in to demonization and respectabilization.” An arrow fired against Marine Le Pen who seeks to institutionalize the National Rally (RN). To the great dismay of Éric Zemmour, who regularly denounces the party's programmatic renunciations of the flame. “Trump didn’t give up!”insisted the author of French suicide (Albin Michel). The opportunity to recall his telephone exchange with the Republican during the 2022 presidential election.

Looking for causes for the scathing defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris, the cantor of «the union of rights» finally swept aside the ethnic or sexist motives of the vote. “It is the left that has lost in the battle for cultural hegemony. The American people no longer wanted to be fooled.” underlined Éric Zemmour, who put on his editorialist costume. According to him, the Vice President of the United States “lost because Americans do not want to become a minority in their country, to be dominated by an alliance of minorities which would take over the majority. They want to remain American.”