Is it to be accepted in the Lepenist party? To describe the conquest of power by the National Rally (RN), with which he now officially collaborates, the pollster Jérôme Sainte-Marie uses the marine metaphor. “The popular categories, for the RN, are the keel of the ship. It was once the keel of the left: there could be unfortunate experiences in power, but the left boat always sailed towards the second round, because it kept the popular vote. This vote allows you to install yourself as the alternation party. »
The former Trotskyist, with a materialist approach, found Marine Le Pen’s ear by telling him his theory of two electoral camps facing each other, the “popular bloc” and the “elite bloc” – before him, the RN already put in opposition, in less Marxist terms, “globalists” and “patriots”. It is on this basis that the far-right party seeks to seize power, with three boxes to tick by 2027: retain most of the vote of employees and workers, conquer the middle classes and seduce a part retirements.
“This popular base allows the development of the RN, but does not in itself make it possible to win. It wasn’t enough for Francois Mitterrand until he rose through the middle classescontinues the one who implements the training school for Lepenist activists. Step by step, once the game revolves around you, you can build this block, which is not socially undifferentiated, but shares a common ideology. The eventual victory of the RN can come if enough people tell themselves that they, like the popular categories, have an interest in the nation. This is the case of the middle classes, which are gradually overtaken by the same problems as the working classes and therefore come to the same conclusions. »
“Inflation Anxiety”
During the 2022 electoral sequence, Marine Le Pen progressed among private sector executives and category B civil servants. the reduction of inequalities. More than immigration, they are worried about the disappearance of public services and civil servants, a way of life and consumption inherited from the “thirty glorious years”. They are also looking for the authority of the State in the face of crises, a protective role that the Republic no longer plays, according to them. These middle classes, tempted by Lepenism, share a feeling of downgrading, lack of recognition in their work and a loss of hope for themselves and their children.
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