La Machine à gagner: Révélations sur le RN en marche vers l'Elysée

by Tristan Berteloot

Depuis treize ans, le Front national, devenu le Rassemblement national, a conçu une stratégie de conquête du pouvoir, qu’il applique à la lettre et presque sans encombre. La formation lepéniste n’a pas obtenu la majorité absolue à l’Assemblée en 2024 comme elle l’espérait ? Qu’importe, elle a presque doublé le nombre de ses députés. Ils sont passés en moins de trois ans de 7 à 88, puis à 126, 142 si l’on additionne ses nouveaux ralliés issus des bancs des Républicains. Le RN ne compte pas s’arrêter là. Car Marine Le Pen vise l’Élysée. Et une victoire sèche et incontestable en 2027.


Cabinet brun, conquête des élites économiques, manipulation des médias, soupçons de détournement de l’argent public pour renflouer les caisses du parti, les Le Pen ont mis sur pied une machine qu’il sera difficile d’arrêter à la prochaine présidentielle. Jusqu’à présent, un Front républicain de plus en plus fragile s’est opposé à leur inexorable ascension. Mais pour encore combien de temps ?


Tristan Berteloot est grand reporter au quotidien Libération.

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 13, 2024

Reviews

[Peter Jerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

La Machine A Gagner is a highly detailed book exploring the development of the French far-right party Rassemblement National since 2017 and its evolving relationship with the economic and media elites of France. Through exposing several aspects of its strategy of "dediabolisation", the book presents us with clear proof of the party's continued racism and nepotism, which flirts with the French elite with the sole purpose of eventually coming to power.

The main success of this book is definitely the analysis of how the RN succeeded in recruiting members of the French elite and establishing relationships with the social, political, and media elites of France. By reading this book, we learn that after her defeat at the 2017 French presidential elections, Marine Lepen became more open to being advised by members of the elite. Specifically, a Catholic Integrationist, free-market, and Islamophobic elite, which developed from all the French high education and state administration institutions. These new allies helped the image of Lepen's party to gradually improve. Most importantly, French social institutions became more and more tolerant, even pleasing, towards the RN. Without a doubt, the author is perfect in attributing guilt to the French elite and media, which were crucial in accepting the transformation of the RN as a real one.

There are perhaps only two remarks that can be made towards the book. Firstly, its narrative is slightly too thriller-like and presents itself as a revelation of hidden secrets, which give the book a somewhat less believable tone in a few cases. Secondly, as the book progresses, the narrative becomes more of a list of discovered elements than a proper narrative with a developed conclusion/outcome. At the end of the book, the author only hints at the party's overgrown confidence, which backfired during the 2nd turn of the parliamentary elections and revealed how much the French people are still repulsed by the far-right.

[Tom Bellenguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ben on est pas dans la merde hein. C’est un livre à lire tant c’est édifiant, parti voyou soit disant anti-élites mais en vérité simple PME familiale de barbouzes qui volent l’argent public et sont racistes.

[eight · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mais qu'il RECULE omg #jumpscare
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[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Très bon timing de se lancer dans ce livre alors que le procès est en court. Livre qui rappelle vraiment bien les soucis du RN avec la vérité et le respect des règles démocratiques