“To avoid the Trumpization of France, we must try to avoid the traps into which American progressives have fallen” | EUROtoday

“Help!” The proper is coming again! » In 1985, the Socialist Party, then in energy, lined France with large images of horrified folks shouting this slogan. Disruptive, as was not but mentioned, this marketing campaign marked the historical past of political promoting. But it didn’t forestall the fitting from “coming back” in the course of the 1986 legislative elections.

These, with the proportional method promoted by François Mitterrand serving to, had even allowed Jean-Marie Le Pen to return to the National Assembly with 34 different far-right elected officers. Forty years later, every thing is going on as if a comparable panic had gripped many mental and media circles. “Help!” The far proper is coming! »we hear in substance from all sides, as if the arrival of the National Rally (RN) to govt energy in 2027 was apparent. As if crying wolf was sufficient to make him run away.

Mobilizing successfully in opposition to demagogues who depend on xenophobia to dismantle democracy in France appears all of the extra crucial and sophisticated since they’ve, in Donald Trump, a robust ally. You nonetheless need to do it with out giving in to panic like “Help!” » The rising affect of the tenant of the White House on geopolitics, particularly his specific intention to favor the arrival in energy of the intense proper, notably in France, to hasten the implosion of the European Union, provides exactly new angles of assault.

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