Mélenchon won hegemony over the left but not over French society

Evidence

Therein lay the paradox: Mélenchon and his troops did not achieve their stated objective, but instead the one they had openly repudiated. While they failed to make the authentic left hegemonic, they succeeded in gaining hegemonic sway over it. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 312

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A left-populist’s trajectory depends on the fate of its social democratic rival — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 299; Left populism helped destroy post-politics yet failed to restore mass politics — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 345; Hegemony is not the same thing as ideological domination — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 755

Broader Connections

• Hegemony is not the same thing as ideological domination #expands (0.90) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 755
• Left populism helped destroy post-politics yet failed to restore mass politics #qualifies (0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 345