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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Results in and….The French Right is has all the power of a wet fart. The media loves to amplify their significance by breathlessly covering their every crazed utterance and a Zoomer doing a TikTok of some far Right song (only 300K views, many of which are “hate watchers”).

The French billionaire class loves the far Right, but they just are not gaining traction with the populace. Meanwhile, their older voting base dies off every year.

By the way the media reports it and tries to shove the Far Right down the throats of the public, you’d think they would be getting an outright majority of the country. Not even close.[/quote]

I am very happy about the result but you don’t understand French politics. This isn’t the overwhelming endorsement of the left that you seem to think it is. It is a coalition win, and therefore weak. [/quote]

I never said it was an overwhelming endorsement of the Left. That’s words you put in my mouth.

My point was that the media establishment in Western countries are hyping up the far right movements to such an insane degree that is not commensurate with their actual support. The polling also seems to be wildly off in Western countries in such a way that overstated far right popularity at the ballot box.

In the words of a great cultural critic, why the does the media keep “trying to make Fetch happen?” It’s as if he who pays the piper calls the tune.

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Your gross comment re bodily functions certainly implies that you think it’s an overwhelming endorsement of the left. I don’t know how else to read that.

In any event, what election has done is validated Le Pen. Just five years ago, saying you would vote for Le Pen would have gotten you excluded from much of French society. That isn’t the case any more.

The shock here isn’t that Le Pen didn’t win. That was not likely to happen. The shock is that it took a massive (and now weak) coalition to make that defeat happen. And Le Pen is now seen as a real force in French politics, not far-right noise.

I do not understand the celebration from the left over this result, other than of course being glad that Le Pen lost. It isn’t the rout or the victory that people seem to think.

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It is because we expected a majority or a MUCH better score from RN. That didn't happen. It is actually a HUGE defeat for them even though they did well, sure...We knew they would do well. There was a real fear Bardella might be Premier Ministre, and there is now 0% chance of that. And to top it all off, the LEFT won, and Macron's alliance did better than expected as well even though they obviously lost a lot of seats. The majority of parties opted to work together to defeat RN, including many on the right. [/quote]

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