Donald Trump Is Our Jean-Marie Le Pen

The Daily Beast ^ | November 27, 2015 | Barrett Holmes Pitner, politics and race-and-culture journalist based in Washington, DC.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Compare their quotes; uncanny. But there’s more to it than that. We may be entering a post-two party era. Guess who could start a new one?

The continued radicalization of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has quickly become a movement centered on the fear and anxiety of foreign or non-white American bodies, and the hate-filled propaganda and lies that sustain it. He is coalescing his own American far-right political party with roots in white supremacy and neo-Nazi movements. He is copying the modus operandi of the resurgent far-right movements that are sweeping across Europe. He is becoming America’s own Le Pen—Marine or Jean-Marie, take your pick.

Following the horrible terrorist attacks that befell Paris roughly two weeks ago, Marine Le Pen said, “France and the French are no longer safe,” and added that “no matter what the European Union says about this, it is essential that France regains control of its border, for good. Without borders, there is no protection or security possible.”

This response is very much reminiscent of Trump’s rhetoric. It touches upon one’s physical safety being in jeopardy, but also an entire culture’s way of life being under attack with nowhere to hide. Following the Paris attacks, Trump also perpetuated anti-Muslim and anti-African American propaganda by claiming that he witnessed Muslims celebrating the collapse of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks and by tweeting an erroneous graphic that claimed that black Americas caused over 80 percent of white deaths by homicide....

[ground_fog]

Le Pen is going to win too lol

[TBP]

So LePen is a crony capitalist?

[trebb]

I love how some FR “Trump needs to be stopped” groupies have found themselves on the same side as these loons, and still have no idea why the majority aren’t seeing their POV.

Yep - they probably took note of how this article says, "Trump also perpetuated anti-Muslim and anti-African American propaganda" because they like new and more cerebral-sounding ways to perpetrate their own empty-head attacks. Like the article, they spew fear while lambasting against spewing fear.

[Califreak]

Donald Trump is WORSE than HITLER!/s