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Despite National Front Disarray, Le Pen’s Ideas Fight On

October 17, 2017 By Richard C. Young

Le Pen’s popularity rose after waves of attacks by Muslim radicals like the one that took place at the Hyper Cacher Kosher Market seen here. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

At The American Conservative, Bill Wirtz explains that despite France’s National Front being in complete disarray after the failure of Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, it’s ideas live on. Even if National Front never holds the sway it recently commanded, says Wirtz, the voters will continue to seek out the positions and ideas promoted by Le Pen and her party. He writes (abridged):

It was only back in May that Marine Le Pen, the head of the National Front and daughter of its antisemitic founder, performed staggeringly well against Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election. Winning 40 percent against Macron in the second-round vote and electing eight candidates to the French National Assembly, Le Pen produced a dream result for her party and her platform of immigration skepticism and political populism. The National Front made all the big headlines, and her candidates dominated primetime TV news.

Several months later, Le Pen’s National Front is in shambles, torn apart by infighting and strife.

The Front’s vice chairman Florian Philippot created a think tank to restructure the party. That effort was undermined when in early September, as her approval ratings declined and Philippot raised more criticism over the party’s policy line, Le Pen decided to strip him off of his responsibilities, which led him to quit the National Front. This divided the party, and put Le Pen at a crossroads.

It doesn’t matter if Le Pen’s party stands or falls. It will either reassemble elsewhere or the voters will hijack another party. Ideas don’t just disappear because the messenger left for an early pension.

Until then, even if Marine Le Pen fades away, France will see a new figure of her kind pop up in the coming years. It’s bad ideas we have to fight, not people.

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