Editing Pierre Poujade (section)

==Legacy==
Although the UDCA has lost its influence, some of the ideas of Poujadism persist in modern French politics.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Henley |first1=Jon |title=French elections: what is the republican front – and will it head off National Rally? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/04/french-elections-what-is-the-republican-front-and-will-it-head-off-national-rally |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 July 2024}}</ref>

In 1969, Gérard Nicoud started the CID-UNATI (''Comité Interprofessionnel de Défense-Union Nationale des Travailleurs Indépendants''), a tax protest movement similar to the one of Poujade. Examples of recent political groups with strong Poujadist leanings include Le Pen's own [[National Front (France)|National Front]] (which has a strong anti-tax message), the ''Comité de Défense des Commerçants et Artisans'' of Christian Poucet (that encouraged French shopkeepers to declare their business in Britain in order to avoid paying the French Social Security taxes), and the ''Union des Contribuables Français''. The magazine ''Le Cri du Contribuable'' owned by Nicolas Miguet also maintains the poujadist tradition.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

In France, ''Poujadisme'' is often used pejoratively to characterize any kind of ideology 
that declares itself ''anti-establishment'' or strongly criticizes the current French political system or political class, even when the anti-tax or anti-intellectual aspects of the original Poujadism are absent.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}

For instance, ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'' was accused of ''poujado-marxisme'' in the 1990s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}

In a 1990 pamphlet, reissued in 2012, [[Christopher Hitchens]] refers to a "... Poujadiste female with ideas above her station", presumably a reference to [[Margaret Thatcher]] and her humble origins as a Grantham grocer's daughter.<ref>[[Christopher Hitchens]] ''The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish'' published by Vintage Digital (29 May 2012).</ref>

In February 2010, ''[[The New York Times]]'' commentator Robert Zaretsky compared the American [[Tea Party movement]] with Poujadism.<ref name="zaretsky">{{cite news |title=The Tea Party Last Time |first=Robert |last=Zaretsky |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 February 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/opinion/03zaretsky.html?sudsredirect=true&pagewanted=all |access-date=19 February 2017 |archive-date=24 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424180745/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/opinion/03zaretsky.html?sudsredirect=true&pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a May 2016 editorial, ''The New York Times'' columnist [[Ross Douthat]] identified [[Donald Trump]] as a Poujadist.<ref name="Douthat">{{cite news |title=Make Family Policy Great Again |first=Ross |last=Douthat |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 May 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/make-family-policy-great-again.html |access-date=19 February 2017 |archive-date=15 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915190045/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/make-family-policy-great-again.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

British historian [[Timothy Garton Ash]] used Poujade in discussing [[Brexit|the British vote to leave the European Union]]. In a piece published in ''[[The Guardian]]'' in June 2016, he wrote about some of those who voted for [[Brexit]], saying that:

<blockquote>It is a mistake to disqualify such people as racist. Their concerns are widespread, genuine and not to be dismissed. Populist xenophobes such as [[Nigel Farage]] exploit these emotions, linking them to subterranean [[English nationalism]] and talking, as he did in the moment of victory, of the triumph of "real people, ordinary people, decent people". This is the language of [[George Orwell|Orwell]] hijacked for the purposes of a Poujade.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/lifelong-english-european-the-biggest-defeat-of-my-political-life-timothy-garton-ash-brexit|title=As an English European, this is the biggest defeat of my political life|date=2016-06-24|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-06-26|archive-date=22 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122115526/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/lifelong-english-european-the-biggest-defeat-of-my-political-life-timothy-garton-ash-brexit|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>