“Both Le Pen and Trump are truculent, indulge in bad taste jokes, discard political correctness, play on racist and sexist themes or innuendoes. Both can be rude towards sick or physically challenged people:....”
Well, no bias here....
Huey Long? Father Coughlin? Henry Ford? Ross Perot?
More like our DSK. Or our Jerry Lewis.
LaPenn seems to have a better ground game than Trump did, Trump needs to get his crap together and hire the best people when it comes to winning delegates other wise he is gonna end up shooting himself in the foot.
That was in the run-off.
In the first round Chirac got 19.88%, and LePen took 16.86%, edging out Socialist Lionel Jospin with 16.18% and qualifying for the run-off.
Multiparty politics are very different from the two party American system. Beating out Jospin and the other candidates was quite an achievement, whatever one thinks of LePen.
Really, Trump is not Le Pen or KKK or Hitler. Trump is the Anti-You-Name-It. He fights against corrupt government, corrupt media, and corrupt party insiders. He is simply anti-establishment. The Tea party candidates promised several things, like a wall, and a budget, and better treaties. But after winning majorities in the House and the Senate, it became clear that many people who claimed to be non-partisan (in the press) or conservative (in the party) where neither. So as Trump unmasked the people who were supposed to be running the “fourth estate” or a fair election, he became more and more popular as the deception became clearer.
Trump is for honest government, honest media, and honest treaties. And its clear that we don’t have that now.
The establishment is treating Trump that way.
The French equivalent was willing to lose regional elections just to keep any Le Pen out. They were more concerned about not having FN in office than they were representing their constituents.
In the case of Trump, everything is being thrown at him in a bid to have an attack stick. He is seen by the establishment (and leftists) as “he is bad and must be destroyed”.
Le pen has principles which he can articulate.