The petty-bourgeois utopia of Călin Georgescu

Beyond rhetoric and psychological profiling, we need to better understand the social forces that support Georgescu and stand to benefit from his rise. In this alliance of disenfranchised elites who want to seize political power, we can find the essence of the political project of the nationalist right. And here we also find the source of the antidote: the contradiction between the real problems of the ordinary people who vote for Georgescu and the class interests of the elites he represents. The petty-bourgeois utopia of a man with a quarter of a million in the bank is not the anti-system alternative that the poorest and most unequal country in the EU needs