Antipolitical traditionalism fails to deliver the restoration its supporters expect

Evidence

In Submission (2015), the hitherto peripheral threat turns into a frontal assault when Islamists take over the French state and found a caliphate on the Seine. We have awakened from our postpolitical reverie, but the alternative that Houellebecq imagines is a regressive traditionalism with no popular appeal, workable only through blackmail and open coercion. Antipolitics cannot fulfil the expectations it generates. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 81