France General Discussion IV: Yellow Fever

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Some French truckers blocked our border on the highway in my city out of protest against Macron for hours and hours.

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French far-left leader Mélenchon sentenced for intimidation

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Out of solidarity, i'll probably on tuesday join protests with PCF together with my party in Lille.

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The fact that Le Pen and other western European right-wing populists do so terrible among older demographics bodes no well for the future in Europe. 65 years ago, it was 1955. The memories of post WW2 are much fresher, and there was also more traditional political identity (you either being a liberal, a christian democrat or a socialist, while being a member of socialist union, christian democratic union or a liberal union, and being covered (health) by one of them. That tradition seems to have slowly breaken up, opening roads more newer and esp. more populist issues, esp. given there are new problems Europe face (immigration question, social policy being more prominent than it used to be, globalism, and the rise of the internet and social media which means the traditional media lost their monopoly).