The Euro 'far right' isn't the US far right with a little more steely-eyed ethnic realism. It's hard-core socialism with extra flag-waving.
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@HbdNrx Name one measure proposed by the Le Pen dynasty that sounds like it will advance France up the economic freedom index. -
@Outsideness I'm not an expert on their platform, but stopping Muslim immigration will help increase freedom--economic and otherwise. -
@HbdNrx It would, if the people doing it weren't treating it as a mere tactic in the long war against Anglo-Saxon commercial values. -
@Outsideness so, France can choose to have that plus more refugees, or they can choose that with fewer refugees... -
@HbdNrx ... but obviously they don't have that choice, sadly. Their allowed to opt for anything but capitalism, so it ends in tears. ... -
@HbdNrx ... Looking back from the second half of the century, it will be like watching the death-throes of the Qing from the early 20th.
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