A book to understand the shocking changes taking place in our world. Why are autocracies growing around the world? And why, in the West, do the less affluent classes and the suburbs vote for the right, while city center residents are mostly progressive? To explain this reversal, people on the left often rely on clichés: for example, that less educated people don’t understand the complexity of the world and even vote against their own interests. Why Does the Right Win? dismantles these self-comforting clichés. It describes the cataclysm shaking the United States and Europe, recounts the figures who have shaped conservative ideology over the past twenty years, and explains why their ideas find fertile ground among the less affluent social classes. Because ideas spread when they succeed in addressing people’s needs. The book demonstrates that the new right – from Donald Trump to Viktor Orbán, from Marine Le Pen to Giorgia Meloni – is waging a cultural battle that gathers and reinterprets many of the struggles once led by the left, and which could still belong to it. It is a reactionary battle that is imposing its cultural hegemony in many countries.
Pub date: January 2026
Length: pp. 224