EXCLUSIVE. Patrick Buisson: “Lepenism has become a mass individualism”

PAtrick Buisson is a discreet man. The political scientist and historian, who advised Nicolas Sarkozy, had not spoken for almost a year. In this campaign, behind the scenes, he delivered his often caustic analyzes in turn to Éric Zemmour – we saw him by his side in January in Les Sables-d’Olonne, but he did not wish to take part in his meeting – and to Marine Le Pen. “They asked for my opinion. I must say that I was very unequally heard”, he confides, refusing to be cataloged as support. The author of The People’s Cause (Perrin) and The end of a world (Albin Michel) has, in fact, also the ear of Republican leaders such as Éric Ciotti or Bruno Retailleau, but Valérie Pécresse never contacted him. A controversial strategist, he remains one of the best decr…