In the United States as in France, we are seeing politics settling into two main blocs: a technocratic-progressive bloc and a reactionary-populist bloc.
Ohio Senate candidate J. D. Vance has found himself on the wrong side of Republican voters and even some of his own donors over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The idea that technocracy itself, and not just its populist antagonist, might fail under conditions of existential threat is entirely foreign to the movie.