Zemmour develops a "3D theory": derision, deconstruction, destruction, which he believes has led to a French decline, the reign of political correctness preventing any speech criticising that evolution, and the divorce between the people and its elites: "our political, economical, administrative, media, intellectual and artistic elites spit on France's grave and trample on its smoking corpse" because they agree with it and even encourage neoliberal reforms and more European federalism destroying the French nation-state. It has created a self-hate that make the French uncomfortable in the modern world (for example, French President Jacques Chirac refused to celebrate Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz in 2005 but sent a delegation when Britain celebrated the French defeat at Trafalgar although the Napoleonic era is generally regarded as a glorious period for France.