I'm not looking for grand economic ideas,
On Sunday, things get serious, and frankly, I have no idea who I'll vote for,
I will not go as far as voting for them, but I cannot deny everything he has done for the city, and that he is very accessible,
Since (Marine) has been at the helm of the party, she has tried to smooth out the rhetoric, embrace a kind of democratic rhetoric,
People often say it’s the old people who vote National Rally. Bardella brings the youthful momentum that was missing,
He associated marketing and advertising techniques with the oldest practices of political action, which is to be at the markets, to go door to door,
There was a winning cocktail,
The French have almost wiped out the ‘Macronist’ bloc,
But the National Rally does not scare me,
Other parties on the right have started to copy her vocabulary or arguments or themes, mainly around immigration and insecurity,
It normalizes even more what they (the National Rally) have to offer,
This started with Marine Le Pen taking over from her father [Jean-Marie Le Pen, once fined for calling the Holocaust a “detail of history”] and renaming the party and courting women voters,
It's the result of a coherent and long-term inoculation strategy, meaning to make voting for the RN mainstream and assuaging voters' fears of the RN,
Bardella himself is a fascinating messenger. Can the RN be so racist as is being said if they nominate someone as their leader and top candidate who has parents with immigration roots?”
It's no longer 2002 when voters were in shock that Jean-Marie Le Pen qualified for the second round of voting in the presidential election and almost all other parties coalesced to block him,