"Sortez les sortants"

"France’s woes, he declared, were due to an urbane and urban professional class that had 'lost all contact with the real world.' In his autobiography, titled 'I’ve Chosen to Fight,' Poujade styled himself as a simple man of the people who had entered politics for selfless and patriotic reasons.
"The real France, he insisted, was found not in Paris, but in small towns and on farms. It was certainly not found in the person of France’s most promising politician, Pierre Mendès-France, who as prime minister had acted on many of his campaign promises for meaningful economic and political change. For Poujade, the young and cerebral Mendès-France, a Sephardic Jew whose family had lived in France for several generations, was and would always be a foreigner."

Robert Zaretsky in The New York Times revisits the the Poujadist movement in 1950s French politics.