MLP has never distanced herself from the neo-fascist, anti-Semitism of her father.
Fascism is never the solution.
IMO Sarko is doing his best, working within a system that desperately needs change, and he understands that. He is trying to drag France kicking and screaming into the 21st century. France has been an imperial dirigiste top down mega state for four centuries. This morphed into a top down welfare entitlement state that is running out of money.
IMO, Sarko understands that as well.
The statism of MLP goes far beyond that. The Statist is always willing to keep the entitlement mentality, & encourage the growth of the power of the State, leaving individual libery behind in the dust.
I don't like FN, but the only other nationalist anti-EU party I can think of is Movement for France. Philippe de Villiers will never be president. The rise of FN has occured only because the Guallists have betrayed France.