Posted on 07/06/2024 11:44:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Aurelien Breeden reported from Paris and Noisy-le-Sec, France, and Aida Alami from Creil and Saint-Denis.
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In the 1980s, a French punk rock band coined a rallying cry against the country’s far right that retained its punch over decades. The chant, still shouted at protests by the left, is “La jeunesse emmerde le Front National,” which cannot be translated well without curse words, but essentially tells the far right to get lost.
That crude battle cry is emblematic of what had often been conventional wisdom not only in France, but also elsewhere — that young people frequently tilt left in their politics. Now, that notion has been challenged as increasing numbers of young people have joined swaths of the French electorate to support the far-right National Rally, a party once deemed too extreme to govern.
The results from Sunday’s parliamentary vote, the first of a two-part election, showed young people across the political spectrum coming out to cast ballots in much greater numbers than in previous years. A majority of them voted for the left. But one of the biggest jumps was in the estimated numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who cast ballots for the National Rally, in an election that many say could reshape France.
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Attention NY Times: Populist nationalists are not far right.
Most young people in France usually don’t vote or they back the left. That is still true, but support has surged for the far right, whose openly racist past can feel to them like ancient history.
The Times is projecting again.
Muslims don’t make croissants.
‘Far right’ = normal people.
Notice how it’s just “the left” but it’s ALWAYS the “far right”.
Which is why they want to ban Tik-Tok.
People have caught on to the propaganda by the liberal media.
Mooselimitis?
It reminds them too much of their defeat at the Battle of Tours.
the SUPER-FAR-HARD radical right
They aren’t allowin comments on the article.
Macaroni keeps screwing up their socialist pensions
EXACTLY!
And notice there is never any mention of “far left”?
Nor soufflés!
A: islam
The cost of housing has skyrocketed, there are no decent paying jobs or careers open to them and regulatory strangulation and taxes make opening your own business a nightmare. Plus the government is more or less openly seeking to replace its native population with docile immigrants who will work for less and reliably support the uniparty regime.
That's more and more the case across Europe and the US.
Increasing numbers of young Native French are seeing how things are going, and are NOT enthused about being in an Islamic society in 20 years, and recognize that only the “far right” has any interest in the welfare and future of the Native French.
Maybe they want being French to continue to be a thing?
And Charles Martel stirs in his grave, marveling that at least the young Frenchies may actually be acquainting themselves with the fighting spirit they once had.
“Far right,” now includes socialists.
Le Pen seems pretty far left to me. She’s never met a socialism she didn’t love.
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