While the globalists succeeded in ousting President Trump, there are signs that patriotic French leader Marine Le Pen could trump the establishment in her nation’s presidential election next year. In fact, following some anti-Islamization proposals, she enjoys her highest-ever poll ratings — almost on par with incumbent president Emmanuel Macron.
As France 24 reports:
Le Pen proposed a ban on Muslim headscarves in all public places on Friday, seeking to build on a record recent poll putting her almost neck-and-neck with President Emmanuel Macron.
The hijab policy … saw the 53-year-old return to a familiar campaign theme 15 months from the country’s 2022 presidential election.
“I consider that the headscarf is an Islamist item of clothing,” Le Pen told reporters at a press conference where she proposed a new law to ban “Islamist ideologies” which she called “totalitarian and murderous.”
Since taking over France’s main … [patriotic] party from her father, Le Pen has run twice for the French presidency, losing badly in 2017 to political newcomer Macron in a defeat that she took months to recover from.
But recent polling shows her closer than ever to her ultimate prize and has led to a rash of new speculation about whether the anti-EU, anti-immigration populist could finally enter the Elysee Palace.
… The poll conducted online by Harris Interactive suggested that if a final-round presidential run-off were held today Le Pen would garner 48 percent while Macron would be re-elected with 52 percent, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
The truth is that whether Le Pen prevails or not, she and her anti-immigrationist fellows, and harsh reality, have already moved France’s “Overton Window” as it relates to Islam and immigration.
As Jihad Watch reported Wednesday, “Le Pen has long been target of the worst elements of globalism as she sought to restrict France’s suicidal immigration policy that saw crime rates skyrocket and no-go zones appear in France, as well as violent Islamic antisemitism. But ever since the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, French citizens and leaders alike have been shaken to the core.”
Paty was brutally murdered last October 16 by an 18-year-old Muslim Russian migrant of Chechen extraction, who decapitated the teacher in the street with a cleaver. It was a calculated assassination occurring after Paty had shown his students Charlie Hebdo’s 2012 “prophet” Muhammad cartoons in a class on freedom of expression.
So with the shifting political winds, even President Macron — once a member of his nation’s Socialist Party — “has cracked down on jihad preaching and the mosques where that teaching takes place, and has continued to do so in defiance of charges of ‘Islamophobia,’” Jihad Watch also informs. Politically speaking, Macron may have no choice.
But the French people will have a choice to make next presidential election, and one of those choices’ rise is panicking the European Union, reports the Express. For as a German MEP put it to the paper, Le Pen’s election would “put a stop to the process towards an ever closer union [with the EU].”
Le Pen’s ascendancy, however, is fueled by a looming disunion — in France. That is, the Islamization caused by multiculturalist and immigrationist policies is so severe that a French “intellectual” and author named Christian de Moliner actually suggested that his country essentially be divided to avoid civil war with Muslims.
Writing in 2017, de Moliner stated that the Franco-Islamic “war in France is just beginning” and that we “can never put the toothpaste back in the tube and convert the 30 percent of Muslims who demand the introduction of sharia to … our democracy.” His solution?
Create what essentially would be a quasi-Sharia state within France, where Muslims who so choose could live by the Koran.
Now you see why Le Pen and her National Rally party have been gaining popularity.
But can she win? First, it seems likely that just as President Trump did in 2016 — and as politically incorrect figures and proposals tend to — she may be under-polling. Voters are often reluctant to reveal such support to pollsters in today’s “woke,” cancel-culture environment.
Another factor works against Le Pen, however. I’ve often cited credible research showing that GoogTwitFace (Big Tech) can shift up to 15 million votes toward leftists in an American election. Yet the Big Tech Cartel is effecting such manipulation all over the West (and beyond). France is no exception.
Given this, I don’t see Le Pen winning unless some seismic events occur before the 2022 election, such as, for example, a series of tragic terrorist attacks combined with lockdown-induced economic upheaval.
Lamentably and paralleling what happened in our 2020 election, burgeoning Big Tech could very well bust French culture.
