Introduction This quote, from French author Houllebecq’s anti-hero Florent-Claude, is an illustration of one side of the everyday consumer embodiment we popularly speak of as political polarization. Although a living truism, most agree that there indeed is an ongoing transnational polarization dividing the public into ideologically oppositional and uncompromising groups (Bartels, 2016; Klein, 2020; Krastev and Holmes, 2019; McCarty, 2019; Pew Research Center, 2020; Prior, 2013).