The daughter, MLP and Baby le Pen are both the creation of the family “mastermind” Jean-Marie le Pen.
They have repackaged his xenophobic, anti semitic, anti-American ideas in a more modern, more attractive package, although I still think MLP is her father in drag.
If Sarkozy’s long term strategy succeeds, France will be rid of two of the poisons that are destroying it from the inside, socialism, and a renascent totalitarian neo-fascism.
Please keep your posts coming, Cincinna. They’re educational and give us a perspective we don’t get from newspapers. Thanks.
Sarkozy’s party, “Les Republicains” (The Republicans) is an attempt to identify his party with patriotism and the notion of France as a “Republic”.
But it also reminds me that Sarkozy is to the Left of me like the Republicans in this country. When Sarkozy was president, he increased funding for public broadcasting in France as an example.
His party is for the EU and multinational government that may not be in the interests of sovereign nations.
Sarkozy inherits the mantle of the man who founded France’s “Fifth Republic”, Charles De Gaulle.
DeGaulle backed out of politics after leading the “Free French” movement in WW 2, but came back in 1958 insisting that a new constitution be approved giving him as president strong powers to deal with factional disputes in the National Assembly.
De Gaulle sold out the French colonists to the leftist fighting for independence in Algeria.
This led to a coup attempt by rebellious military units and generals in Algeria in 1961 and an attempt to assassinate De Gaulle in early 1963.
After Algeria was given to the socialist-leftist rebels, many of the colonists came back to southern France and would fuel the membership of the National Front in its earlier years.
Have they merely re-packaged it, or have they disavowed, for instance, the anti-Semitism? What do you mean by “xeno-phobic”? If that means “anti-mozlem” that’s a good thing; I assume you mean something additional?