2022 French legislatives

[H. Ross Peron]

Yeah, Roussel being somehow better than Méluche is a strange idea. He has all of his downsides - the Jacobinism, authoritarian tendencies, sneering cultural superiority, focusing on dumb sh*t only millionaire pundits and Valeurs actuelles readers care about, dodgy foreign policy, an incoherent economic platform that would banktrupt the country in a week - without any of his charisma (making an idiot of himself isn't charisma) or the ability to, you know, make people vote for him.

In practice Roussel's economic policies strike me as muscular social democracy of the high modernist era, with a strong emphasis on industrial policy. Hardly incoherent, regardless of what one may think of his culture wars pandering etc.

[H. Ross Peron]

PCF is probably in:

https://twitter.com/2022Elections/status/1521411034233380865

[H. Ross Peron]

LFI opens an investigation regarding the allegations against Taha Bouhafs.

https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1524351440029982720

[H. Ross Peron]

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Part of the story is that the cool and trendy crowd have decamped to Biarritz these days.

Which means that what remains is just old people; pieds noirs (although very much overrated as a factor); migration; the development of a particular economic model with huge levels of inequality, lots of especially precarious jobs (especially logistics or tourism oriented), car dependence, appaling sprawl etc, etc.. which all leads to a particularly acute sense of cultural and social anxiety.

Is there a reason Biarritz has become much more popular compared to the Cote d'Azur for the rich and famous? For Anglophones, Nice, Cannes etc. are still the still bywords for luxurious resort towns.

Thanks for your analysis of the underlying socioeconomic factors driving political patterns in the Cote d'Azur. It is comparable in some ways to the political dynamics of the American Sunbelt but with a much smaller nonwhite population.