Guillame Durocher – The Unz Review March 26, 2021
Time and again, we are somberly warned of the grave threat to democracy posed by Marine Le Pen as the leader of a quasi-fascistic party, the National Rally (Rassemblement National or RN). Yet, what the French politico-media class seems to fear most is a bit of genuine democracy, unmediated by slippery politicians and smarmy journalists.
Le Pen recently announced that her first measure if elected Présidente – an increasingly-plausible scenario – would be the holding of a “great referendum” on immigration. She told France Inter radio:
My first decision will be the organization of a referendum on immigration. Because it’s now been decades that the various governments have been taking decisions on immigration without the French people ever being heard or questioned on this topic. According to opinion polls the French people has disagreed for decades with the policy that is being conducted on immigration.
Le Pen was somewhat vague on the content of the referendum, mentioning “several questions” that would be posed, including presumably one on the FN/RN’s years-old signature promise: a reduction of net immigration to a quasi-negligible 10,000 per year.
She also presented two other main planks. One is the partial suspension of the Schengen Agreement, which ensures check-free circulation between EU countries, to longer apply to non-EU nationals. Somehow French borders would have to be tightly monitored for non-EU nationals while letting European citizens through. How this would be done is unclear, but in any case it’s very common for national governments to temporarily/semi-permanently reinstitute border checks despite their Schengen commitments.
The last plank would be a tax break for the “middle classes.” Le Pen’s economic policy, once defined by a protectionist and anti-EU social nationalism, now seems decidedly fluctuous.
In other news, the liberal-globalist establishment paper Le Monde is really fretting about a potential Le Pen win.
According to several polls, around half of left-wing voters (defined as those voting for the hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the center-left Anne Hidalgo, or the Green Yannick Jadot) would abstain from voting in the event of a Le Pen-Macron second round presidential election. The paper claims that voters are less likely to see in Le Pen a fascist menace and many are tired/disgusted of voting for Macron, “president of the rich,” as a lesser evil.
What’s more, the French left is extraordinarily divided with currently around a dozen candidates. Le Monde laments these “kamikaze” candidates make a Le Pen-Macron runoff more likely and, naturally, urges in an editorial for a revival of the “republican front” to disenfranchise and exclude nationalist voters through a cartel of all the other parties.
Finally, we are witnessing a racialization of French politics as increasingly colorful and woke youths reject the old generation’s quaint commitment to colorblind secularism as the bedrock of national identity.
Controversy is now focused on France’s main student union, the National Union of Students of France (UNEF), has been openly organizing coloreds-only meetings so participants can talk about their feelings without the oppressive glare of white people. There is talk of defunding or even abolishing the union, but it is being backed by various left-wing leaders like Mélenchon and the Socialist Benoît Hamon, who are increasingly giving up on the principles of the secular colorblind left.
Ethnic and religious polarization provides fertile ground for Le Pen. If she wins, appeal to direct democracy seems like a worthy gambit. Referenda are a regular feature of democratic life in neighboring Switzerland and have ensured that the Swiss people actually have some say over their national destiny. The British referendum on leaving the European Union – whatever one thinks of that – has ultimately been acted upon despite the kicking and screaming tantrums of vast swathes of the establishment and traditionally-dominant “educated” strata of the population.
While there are natural risks of misfire, the referendum is a powerful means for Le Pen to appeal to yellow-vest voters and sanctify policies with the blessing of the Popular Will. There is no surer way of blowing through the inevitable and systemic attempts at sabotage by the legacy politico-media class. En avant !
The jew and former Kibbutznik Boris Johnstein has NOT acted on immigration….essentially the fat arrogant prick has done nothing.
Quite deliberately too you can be sure of that.
The French have nothing to say, the MSM press decides for them, M.me Le Pen knows it, she has lost many Presidential elections because of that. As the US also France and GB dare driving towards a wall not to talk about teh EUSSR
Not one person i know supports the racist governments people trafficking of foreign migrants into the country
Racism is plain wrong
and governments have to stop it
Marine Le Pen is a shabbos goy. She’s completely the opposite to her father, Jean-Marie, on almost everything. The only reason that she’s contesting Rothschild puppet, Macron, is because TPTB know that, like with the USA, there’s a growing populist movement and so they play to the crowd, albeit controlling their leader, of course.
Unlike Jean-Marie, Marine is not anti jew, which everyone needs to be, as judaism is the world’s number one problem and always has been. The reason no nationalist government gets anywhere is because they’re instantly destroyed by the jew msm and academia. The jew knows that any nationalist movement, to them, is like garlic to a vampire. If a nationalist party wins, hasta la vista jew. And they know this. Just as national socialism is there to combat communism, nationalism is there to combat jews.
You only have one enemy in life people. That enemy IS always HAS been and always WILL be the jew, regardless of what people on here blither on about such as Ann Blue with her “its Satan” BS. As I stated in my reply on the first article on Truthseeker today, saying it’s Satan is a convenient ‘let the jew off the hook’ excuse.
You need to start telling people to STONE, COLD, TRUTH about the jew. This is not a case of offending people and hurting someone’s feeling for crying out loud. This is about the saving of 7 BILLION PEOPLE! If you do NOT start offending people and telling them the truth then mark my words, what happened in Russia, as described by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his books ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ and ‘200 Years Together’ (both available on archive.org btw), will look like a picnic compared to the jew genocide they’re planning (and already started) in the west and then the world.
How much bloody proof do you need? They own EVERYTHING! When are you ‘jew deniers’ going to wake up? When are you imbecile Christians going to see that Christ was not a jew, the jews are not the chosen people and that they are the enemy of mankind and cannot be saved? Christ will come down and ANNIHILATE them. Do you not see this? He knows who the evil is on this earth. Wake up. Start seeing jews for what they are. They want you dead you fools. Stop protecting them.
They screwed both her and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the last election to install the then-unknown newbie Macron, who like Blair claimed to be socialist but was really a neo-liberal like Thatcher. It’s all about the Benjamins (A reference not to the Jews as some think but to Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill).
In W W 2 posters on the london underground had a map of Britain witha big pair of boots on it with the caption
” do not let foreign feet walk on English soil”
as soon as the war was over the government began the mass people rafficking of foreigners into the UK
this shows how racist is our zio-governments
5 million signatures went to the UK government to say that whn foreign migrants commit crimes here can them and their families be sent home
You would not allow criminals in your home so why your country ?
but the government are racist zio-saps and wont allow it
You have to consider that the grounding of the ship at the Suez canal was deliberate…..part of the strategy to shut down trade to ultimately precipitate a third world war……..??.
I intended to post a warning about Marine Le Penn not being what she seems, and a long way from her father.
But I didn’t have to – White Elephant nailed it for me.
Salut!
When the people need a man with an odd moustache as the leader, but the Jews in charge; and the MSM; and all the rest of the nation-wrecking, culture distorting cabal will not let the people have a man with an odd moustache as the leader, then each of the people must become a man with an odd moustache, and do what must be done.