Every time there is a Presidential election in France, the neo-Fascist Front National gets somewhere between 13 and 18% of the vote. This time they managed a record 18.6%.
And then we have the media telling us what a shock this is.
It isn't - it is nothing if not consistent. The spirit of Pétain and Laval has been kept alive in this sort of number for years.
The other thing (and this does not only apply to France), the media are developing the habit of calling these nasty xenophobic parties "populist". It is time that they started calling them by their true colours. For "populist", read "neo-Fascist"! All they need to get rid of the "neo" is to threaten to open their own versions of Buchenwald for housing the undesirable foreign elements. At least they haven't got that far yet. Much of their rhetoric though would be an equal for any of the speeches produced by the leaders of the NSDAP in the 1930s!
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