Originally published at: Jean-Marie Le Pen Died Knowing His Extremist Far-Right Politics Have Been Successfully Mainstreamed - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics in France seems almost complete. Le Pen was, for…
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Some people make the world a better place only when they leave it.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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As the US is on the cusp of the end of it’s first Republic, the French are racing ahead to their 6th? Let’s all slow down a little bit in this horse race, fellas.
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“…the mainstreaming of far-right politics in France [seems almost complete…”
These guys don’t create the right-wing sentiments in their respective countries – France, USA, and earlier, Germany.
They make what we call bigotry, xenophobia, racism, misogyny “legitimate”. Here in the US, the rump victory twice tells us that about half of our citizens are willing to elect an ascendent autocrat. Come out of the closet and I’ll perform some genocide-lite by stuffing people you despise into busses and trains and dumping them in a neighboring country. Some of our followers would like to gas them, but we’ll just exile them.
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