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Democrats would do well to ignore France like they have for the past 200 years. All this world politicking turns off your lower income voters who couldn't give two s about France or Brexit.
Le Pen's party imploded. Democrats could take a page from Macron's playbook, I think the country is ready for it.
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This week in Soissons, a somnolent provincial town far from the gaudy cast-of-thousands extravaganzas of the campaign, Ms. Le Pen was greeted by a few dozen somber National Front activists in a drab meeting hall. Even hecklers didn’t bother: Just a handful of weak-voiced protesters quickly dispersed.
Ms. Le Pen’s party, crushed by Emmanuel Macron’s 66 percent in the presidential runoff in May, fared dismally in last Sunday’s legislative elections. The National Front will most likely confirm these losses in a second round of voting this Sunday. And each day brings new revelations of internal backbiting and squabbles over strategy within the Front.
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But if the champion of France’s populist far right is now contemplating years of political marginalization, she has largely herself to blame, in the eyes of analysts as well as many in her own party. They say she is paying a bitter price for an incoherent message badly delivered.
Support for the far right has close to evaporated, at least at the polls: From an already disappointing 34 percent in the May 7 presidential vote, it dropped to barely over 13 percent in last Sunday’s first-round parliamentary elections.
The Front’s voters stayed away in droves; their abstention rate was well over 50 percent, according to pollsters.
The first culprit is the Macron wave that has swept over France. The president’s field of nonpolitician amateur parliamentary candidates has touched a chord in a country fed up with established parties that brought no solutions to France’s chronic problems.
Their success has seemed to demonstrate that, given a centrist alternative to shake up politics as usual, voters will seize it and shun the extremes. Mr. Macron has blasted into insignificance not only the National Front, but the traditional right and left parties as well.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/w...ance.html?_r=0
Democrats would do well to ignore France like they have for the past 200 years. All this world politicking turns off your lower income voters who couldn't give two s about France or Brexit.
The right wanted a novice, non-politician for this reason.The president’s field of nonpolitician amateur parliamentary candidates has touched a chord in a country fed up with established parties that brought no solutions to France’s chronic problems.
The whole reason I wanted Trump to win was that I thought his election would be so distasteful to the establishment types of both parties that they would move to the center and tamper down the extreme partisanship...I was wrong. Dems have decided to pander to their most extreme base supporters. I expect the Democratic primaries are going to be one of a show, might even make this past GOP primary look tame.
Remember when you thought Trump was going to govern as a democrat?
I think Trump would happily triangulate if it were possible but.....muh Russia!
He seems more happy being anti-Obama on everything, which should have been clear when he began his campaign with birtherism.
Anonymous sources. Sad!
he'll never one up that ass kicking from obama.
obama mopped the in' floor with his ass.
i'll play the chris game and pretend i made an actual point
donald looking at his lion king.
yep, that was a of a dinner!
had the same flavor that jon stewart served up to tucker carlson.
I don't do the troll thing.
In other words, you really are this ing stupid?
I don't do the troll thing.
That's a good goy.
Most adorable little white trash Chris moment was when he copy pasta'd all these right wing arguments for why trickle down economics and giving all our money to the billionaires was good for him personally. was adorable beyond belief.
I don't do the troll thing.
if you ask nicely, cubby might let you eat Katie-girl's ass while he sits in the corner watching.
Be careful clammer. Tread lightly on Thread.
You upset Thread, and he asks about your Mom's woo-woo.
"Promises, promises.." -Ernie 'The Big Cat' Ladd
And you are a cross dresser.
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