Sophy peller is the economist's paris bureau chief. The appeal of popularism is on the rise everywhere, you know, from america to hungary to poland. And i think what we've seen in france is that you can have a really quite decent track record on jobs, on incomes, on a managing the pendemic, and still it's not enough to stop the forces of popularism rising.
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