If so, can we learn from it? I've read the following article 3 times, it is thought provoking. I'm sort of wishing I was back at university in either political science or sociology-knowing what I learned way back when, being able to synthesize that with what has been happening since.

There's a lot to discuss here, if anyone else wishes to read a rather complex article.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/fr...art-15125.html

The French, Coming Apart

A social thinker illuminates his country’s populist divide.Christopher Caldwell
Spring 2017 The Social Order

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