Posted on 06/30/2024 1:32:11 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Parliamentary faction of President Emmanuel Macron has been utterly destroyed in the unexpected snap election he called just three weeks ago, with Le Pen’s Party looking to nearly treble its seat holding.
Polling has closed in France for the first round of this week-long Parliamentary election. While actual seat distribution won’t be fully known, the exit polls following this knock-out round have given a confident answer that Marine Le Pen’s nationalist-populist National Rally (RN) won the day. Per the exit polls, her faction gained 34 per cent of the vote, while the left-wing coalition founded for the purpose of this election picked up 29 per cent, and President Macron’s Ensemble looks at just 20 per cent.
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Yep:
Femme Actuelle
Tous les diaporamas
Marine Le Pen : son évolution de looks en images
https://photo.femmeactuelle.fr/marine-le-pen-son-evolution-de-looks-en-images-48312
They were, by the standards of the day. Before the fact really, as, as stated above, the whole idea of political alignment on the basis of philosophical outlook wasnt invented until 1790.
Popular politics had just been born, as had political ideology. The US was way ahead of the curve, and thus radical, and “leftist”.
The economic class conflict thing developed later, notably in England.
Liberal meant different things in different places. On the continent, in the 19th century, it came with connotations that would not seem liberal in a US context.
And the model and source for this was largely France.
1. It meant a centralized bureaucratic government with near unlimited powers over local communities, as a development of older French dirigisme.
2. It meant cultural and linguistic unity enforced by the central government through its implementation of public education and media laws in some cases. All the local variations, dialects and languages had to go. France, in many ways, was not really “French” until the late 19th century. And so also across much of Europe. This caused a great deal of fallout, much of which is still politically significant.
3. It meant anticlericalism, or rather anti-Catholic fanaticism, as the church was largely in opposition to the centralizing, totalitarian nature of the liberal state. This led to the state becoming explicitly anti-religion, or anti-Catholic, in France if course, but also Italy, Germany, etc. This anticlericalism was, for instance, the deep background of the Dreyfus affair.
> The US was way ahead of the curve, and thus radical, and “leftist”. <
Good point. And labels can evolve.
For example, the term “dictator” was an honorable one in the old Roman Republic.
That’s great news. Show France who they are and encourage voting Right in the next round.
True.
In France the US model, radical as it was, was seen as cutting edge only for a short time. Extremism fed on itself and grew beyond any sensible limits. The advocate for a US model, or a US style “sane” approach to politics, was your old friend Lafayette.
Lafayette deserves recognition to this day. Not just for his significant contributions to the American Revolution as a field commander, and an influential pro-American lobbyist in France, but in his contributions to European political philosophy.
“Declaration of the Rights of Man”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen
The most sensible thing that came out of the French Revolution.
He was celebrated in his time but his memory has faded.
Le Pen's party's "interesting" connections with Putin may make that happen.
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/le-pens-far-right-party-reaches-settlement-on-russian-bank-debt-court-idUSKBN23F1AG/
The loan isn't the only thing.
Yes, and I think France had a revolution some time ago based on those very things and a few people lost their heads over it.
Sounds like the Olympics could really be a shit show in France with protest and insurrection happening around Paris by the opposition. Great message to send to the world that liberalism is dying. It’s time to embrace conservatism.
Riots, burning, and looting in at least three cities in France.
I’d leave a link, but Google just scrubbed the X report from their news search.
Macron called a snap election to try and catch everyone off guard; glad it backfired.
lOL, Reminds me of Biden’s challange to kick Trump’s ass in the debate.
"[of political opinions] Favourable to constitutional changes and legal and administrative reforms tending in the direction of freedom and democracy. Hence used as the designation of the party holding such opinions, in England or other states; opposed to conservative"
The English definition was, as far as the Continent went, quite insufficient.
True Frenchmen will come to rescue their country from the Mongol, oops, I mean, PALEOstinian hoards!
If it takes a Crusade, so be it. The French must expel the scum of their society in order to survive.
The same is true of the USA and the rest of Europe.
France and Germany were the ones holding the EU’s feet to the fire on socialism.
Austria, Hungary, Poland, Argentina, Sweden and now France.
Sure kind of maps with the arrival of the Trump message.
Its NOT the man....its the message.
France has riots every weekend. The illegals have taken over the streets and the average French citizen trying to mind their business and live their lives have been taking it for 20 years. They welcomed the “migrants” and now the hundreds of thousands of military aged men that were welcomed with open arms are openly loath the french culture and destroy everything around them.
When the citizenry express discontent, they’re called nazis. When they vote, they’re called undemocratic. When their votes yield a result different than the communists want, they’re accused of starting a civil war.
When the left riots, the media blames the normals.
It’s the same story everywhere.
Our founders were aligned with the Rockingham Whigs — the Burkean Whigs
predating Fox. Against Arbitrary Power (against the King’s faction power. )
Hence the Blue and Buff colors of Washington’s uniforms: Whig colors.
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