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Voters are turning on the incumbents. That’s true in the U.S. and it’s true in Europe.
And the revolution that has already seen fundamental electoral change sweeping across Europe has come to France.
In France, where the same inept governments, corrupt arrangements, and hollow rhetoric have been the order of the day for a generation, voters took on Macron’s liberal centrists and first-round voting backed Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally. It’s not the end of the process, but it’s another political earthquake. Le Pen’s party had close calls before, but this one is looking like the closest of them al so far.
Previously fear of the ‘right-wing’ coming to power had united the other parties, but no one is going to side with a Left led by Communists and their political allies. Besides all of the smears hurled at Le Pen apply to the Left’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon who actually is an antisemite, a dangerous extremist, and is soft on Putin.
But the French are pretty clear about why they’re voting for the National Rally. They’re tired of crime, violence and terrorism. They’re sick of a system that puts migrants first, that panders to Islam and to the Eurocrats. Whether or not anything will change even if the National Rally is able to form a government may be open to question, but the voters have had it. Even people who wouldn’t otherwise have voted for NR are doing it.
David said that everyone in his synagogue was voting for National Rally, as were many other religious Jew he knew. Many of his leftist Jewish friends were either voting for right parties of not voting at all.
David pointed to mass immigration and the consequent changes in French society and Islamist antisemitism as the major concern driving the drastic political shifts he had seen among his friends. David lives in an area heavily populated with immigrants, many from Mali, Senegal, or Afghanistan.
He explained that the area had become riddled with drugs and crime, and were not safe for native French or girls.
“I am a leftist, usually I vote for the left,” said David. “I’m the most leftist of all my friends.”
“I don’t know Jews who are voting for the leftists,” said David. “Most of the Jews I know are voting for [Reconquête leader Éric] Zemmour or [National Rally President] Jordan Bardella.”
Moving from the Left to the right is a dramatic change for some French Jews, who David said had been left with a difficult choice — But difficult or not, based on what David said his friends have made the choice all the same.
It may be anecdotal, but it is happening.
sjam says
National Rally wins first round! The party has has found support from increasing numbers of young French voters under Jordan Bardella who supported the youth led syncretic-nationalist Génération identitaire before it was banned in 2021
However National Rally might not win the second round if the if the Popular Front and Ensemble voters unite to stop National Rally which could very well happen as in the Presidential Election when Le Pen seemed to be heading to defeat Macron.
This time it might be different, one can only hope so, and Nationally Rally drives a stake through the heart of the vampire globalist establishment!
Mo de Profit says
France has been invaded by North Africans, hopefully the French people will vote for reform. Not reform but re-form.
David Gin says
Daniel now if my Jewish sisters and brothers here in America would realize that the Democrat party is no friend of American Jews or Israel and stop with their monetary support and vote them out.
Mickorn says
Hmmmm… A little evasive here. Do you like the NR and what it stands for? What NR policies do you endorse? You want give your readers one of your patented history lessons about Jean Marie le Pen? He was just the kind of guy you and your allies love.
Floyd Looney says
NR are like American Democrats but want a border. They would actually be considered on the left in the US.
Mickorn says
So is that why Greenfield likes the so much???
carpediadem says
Hmmm, a lot snarky here.
Spurwing Plover says
Open Borders leads to Disorder
Yehuda Levi says
Any movement to common sense and free speech is welcome anywhere in the world. France moving more right and attacking radical islam is a better direction than left.
We also have an administration that caters to immigrants more than to native-born Americans only for the hope that they will eventually vote for them.
Citizens are tired of being secondary concerns for their governments and the encroachment on their rights in order. to appease the easily offended.
Jeff Bargholz says
Voting in your best interests is a tough choice?
DERP.
RS says
People around the world are rejecting Socialism, they want their freedom, they want common sense, they want their economy back and level headed people in office, and they are tired of the elites acting like Kings.