MAJOR MAINTENANCE – The author* of Dispossessed and of Peripheral France exclusive analysis for Le Figaro the results of the American elections and sees in them the expression of a phenomenon which crosses all Western democracies: the awakening of the working and middle classes.
*Latest book published : The Dispossessed. The survival instinct of the working classes (Flammarion, 2022).
LE FIGARO. – Should Donald Trump’s victory be seen as the result of the empowerment of the working classes that you have described from book to book for a decade? ?
Christophe GUILLUY. – The cultural autonomy of the working and middle classes is the great issue of our time! It is the explanatory factor of all contemporary political dynamics and also, of course, of the incomprehension they arouse in the United States as in Western Europe. This cultural autonomy is the unexpected fruit of the secession of the elites, it is also a reaction to thirty years of invisibility and especially ostracization. Today, for the first time in recent history, the opinion of the ordinary majority is no longer shaped by either the media or the traditional political sphere. People no longer listen to the debates…
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