A concomitant of such Kurzschluss between mainstream leaders and voters has always been the politics of accentuated ethnic identity, ultra-nationalism, and outright bigotry. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy ended up trying desperately to appeal to those very sentiments in his last-ditch effort to avert his political demise.
与这一主流领导人和选民之间的分歧相伴而生的是强调血统的政治、极端民族主义和彻底的偏见。法国前总统萨科齐在为其连任做最后一搏时便使出了这一招数。