"It was simultaneously Poujadiste, demanding less state and less taxes, and state-interventionist, demanding more services and subsidies for the peripheral France of the countryside and outer-suburbs."
This is one reason why the Western right keeps failing because there is no way to square that circle.
"It was simultaneously Poujadiste, demanding less state and less taxes, and state-interventionist, demanding more services and subsidies for the peripheral France of the countryside and outer-suburbs."
This is one reason why the Western right keeps failing because there is no way to square that circle.
The conservative voting base across the West looks like this. People over the age of 50, who had engaged in all sorts of degeneracy in their youth, didn't produce any children, but now want to pay less taxes and still want their free healthcare and social security till they die in their mid-80s. And they want to reduce immigration too, but only the illegal kind not the legal one, a distinction without a difference these days.
You can't have low immigration, high economic growth, high welfare, and reasonable taxes, it just doesn't work that way. The only people to enjoy that were perhaps the Greatest Generation for a brief 20 year period, and they paid for that with their blood in the First and Second World Wars. Which none of us in the West have come even remotely close to.
"It was simultaneously Poujadiste, demanding less state and less taxes, and state-interventionist, demanding more services and subsidies for the peripheral France of the countryside and outer-suburbs."
This is one reason why the Western right keeps failing because there is no way to square that circle.
The conservative voting base across the West looks like this. People over the age of 50, who had engaged in all sorts of degeneracy in their youth, didn't produce any children, but now want to pay less taxes and still want their free healthcare and social security till they die in their mid-80s. And they want to reduce immigration too, but only the illegal kind not the legal one, a distinction without a difference these days.
You can't have low immigration, high economic growth, high welfare, and reasonable taxes, it just doesn't work that way. The only people to enjoy that were perhaps the Greatest Generation for a brief 20 year period, and they paid for that with their blood in the First and Second World Wars. Which none of us in the West have come even remotely close to.