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In Sunday’s first-round of regional elections in France, the clear and stunning winner was the National Front of Marine Le Pen.
Her party rolled up 30 percent of the vote, and came in first in 6 of 13 regions. Marine herself won 40 percent of her northeast district.
Despite tremendous and positive publicity from his presidential role in the Charlie Hebdo and Paris massacres and the climate summit, Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party ran third.
What drove the victory of the National Front?
According to The Wall Street Journal’s William Horobin, “Ms. Le Pen, who has combined the party’s anti-immigration stance with calls for hard-line security measures and tighter control of France’s borders, has only bolstered her support in the three weeks since the Paris attacks.”
The rightward shift in French politics is being replicated across Europe, as nations tighten borders and erect new checkpoints against the tsunami of migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
Angela Merkel and open borders are yesterday in Europe; Marine Le Pen is tomorrow.
And the rightward shift is occurring here as well, propelled by the terrorist atrocity in San Bernardino. On immigration, terrorism, borders, crime and security, Americans are moving to the right.
Donald Trump has taken the toughest stance. He will send illegal immigrants back and make Mexico pay for his wall. He is the least restrained in what he would do to the Islamic State. And his lead nationally has now reached an unprecedented 20 points.
In Iowa, Sen. Ted Cruz is surging. Cruz would “carpet bomb [ISIS] into oblivion,” and try to make the sand around Raqqa “glow in the dark.” He charges Marco Rubio with collaborating with Sen. Chuck Schumer in backing amnesty for illegal immigrants.
In return, Rubio tears into Cruz daily, charging him with being soft on national security for having backed the USA Freedom Act that denies the NSA instant access to all phone and computer records of American citizens.
Like most Republicans, Cruz supported keeping NSA’s hands off the metadata of electronic communications of U.S. citizens. But that position seems more suited to the libertarian moment that has passed, not the national security moment we live in today.
Chris Christie says San Bernardino proves his point about keeping refugee wives and even 3-year-old orphans out of New Jersey. As we now know, that female terrorist may have been the radicalizer.
The Clintons have long been reliable weather vanes of national politics. And Hillary Clinton, too, has begun moving to the right. Sunday, she said she was ready to take “military action” if Iran fails to comply with the slightest provision of President Obama’s nuclear agreement.
She wants tech companies to start policing and shutting down Islamist websites that preach hate and may have radicalized the couple that carried out San Bernardino. Clinton added dismissively, “You are going to hear all the familiar complaints: ‘freedom of speech.'”
Monday’s Washington Post reported on how Bernie Sanders, yesterday’s Socialist sensation, received a tepid response when he spoke to a crowd about income equality, but failed to address the Islamist terrorist atrocity and what he would do about it.
Last week, The New York Times ran its first front-page editorial in 95 years, demanding new federal gun laws. America’s response — a stampede to gun stores to buy firearms for self-defense.
Outlawing AK-47s and AR-15s may seem like common sense to the Times. But Americans do not believe such laws would keep terrorists from getting these weapons. And many realize those cops used semi-automatic rifles to turn the terrorists’ SUV into a pile of junk in a single minute — and them into Bonnie and Clyde.
Even the president is signaling a shift to the right.
Sunday, in only his third Oval Office address, Obama said he will intensify bombing in Iraq and Syria. He wants tougher screening of those coming to America. And he concedes that “an extremist ideology has spread among some Muslim communities” and is a “real problem Muslims must confront.”
Tougher on crime, tougher on terrorists, tougher on securing the border — that is the demand of the moment, and probably of 2016.
Americans are coming to realize we cannot prevent all such slaughters as Ford Hood and Virginia Tech, Columbine and Aurora, Tucson and the Navy Yard, Newtown and Umpqua College, and Charleston.
Nor can we prevent all Islamist terrorism if Muslims raised here or living here become radicalized in mosques or by the Internet, and seek revenge and paradise as warriors of ISIS by slaughtering Americans.
Al-Qaida and ISIS now realize the worldwide publicity gains of Paris and San Bernardino in terrorizing the West. And they will surely seek to replicate those massacres.
And every new atrocity, whether of the work place or Islamist variety, will make cops more popular and guns seem more essential.
New horrors are likely ahead — that will continue America’s turn to the right.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”
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In France, the open-borders, Judeo-bankster stooge Socialist and Cuckservative parties will unite to curb the Nationalists. In America, should Trump get the Republiscam nomination, the donor class, country-clubbers, Chamber of Commerce types, and cucks will desert to Mrs. Clinton. And she will win. And that’s good not bad. Obama has taken this fractured nation 70% of the way to civil war, Hiligula will take it the rest and damn fast. Bullets, not ballots. Sorry, Pat…you’re just another System guy
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The Empire has killed four million Muslims (and counting) since the false flag attack of 9/11. Could this have anything to do with Muslims becoming “radicalized”? The people who own our government, whoever they may be, are psyco killers. Left and right have nothing to do with it.
“Last week, The New York Times ran its first front-page editorial in 95 years, demanding new federal gun laws. America’s response — a stampede to gun stores to buy firearms for self-defense.”
Nothing illustrates how out of touch the NY Times is than that hilarious observation, Pat.
In the end, Muslims are not the problem.
West and white race are really being destroyed by the Jewish-homo-negro or Jomogro Threat.
who hates Western civilization and its people more- the radical Muslims or the people at the NYT?
if it weren’t for the NYT and their fellow travelers, we would never have had any problems with Islam or Muslims. They’d be happy and thriving in their own countries and selling us oil and we’d be happy in ours, buying the oil and selling them cars. Win- win.
But then add the NYT and Israel torturing and slaughtering Palestinians and Persians and demanding America go to Iraq and slaughter more Arabs and destabilize the entire Middle East – OBVIOUSLY for Israel- and set up torture camps for goat herders and drone weddings and create so much hatred and strife and death and misery in the world that it’s literally on the brink…
Thank you NYT
and then you want to disarm us and open our borders to the throngs of Muslims who you and your relentless, endless lies and treachery have caused America to harm and have valid grievances against.. so that everywhere, on the streets of Baghdad to the streets of San Bernardino there is hatred and death and misery and despair.
Thank you NYT
and then one day, when the good people of the world start to get sick to death of your endless lies and treachery and murderous hatred for us all.. and we come with pitchforks to your snake pit of lies; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Hindu, Buddhist and every single breathing human who doesn’t worship at the blood-spattered alter of Moloch himself – and say Enough!
You’ll no doubt screech at our ingratitude for all you’ve done for us.
I guess that’s what they call chutzpah, huh?
“The Clintons have long been reliable weather vanes of national politics. And Hillary Clinton, too, has begun moving to the right. Sunday, she said she was ready to take “military action” if Iran fails to comply with the slightest provision of President Obama’s nuclear agreement.”
She is moving toward Israel and some of the rich Zionist Jews. As are most Republican candidates.
Marine Le Pen’s rise is not that simple. The National Front became the default vote for those opposed to corporatist neoliberalism, including many with traditionally socialist sympathies, because of the sellout of Hollande’s “Socialist” party and its embrace of EU neoliberalism. The National Front is also the party with the most benign stance towards Russia. The vacuum left by the collapse of the traditional Left in France has been filled, for the time being, by the National Front. If the National Front moves France away from the EU-Atlantic neoliberal empire, is that a move to the right or to the left?
It only looks like that France and the USA turn on the right side.But there is a problem: the “Elites” and the medias have a “left” view and still pray multiculturalism.They still ignore that they are producing a new Libanon,Yugoslavia,Ireland,Ruanda, Iraq etc.
The average citizen in the Western World is only shaking his head about the people on the top and the real decision-makers behind them.Especially Ronald Reagan did open the gates for the people with the big money and their influence in the politics and medias.
But as long as there is internet-connection,electrical power and cable-TV people seem to ignore what is going on.
In the USA you can choose between Republicans and Democrats.But where is the difference?
Behind them is the big money and their media-power.Democracy becomes more and more Plutocracy.Socialism and solidarity for the rich banksters, real life for the others.
Nobody cares about the big American “Friend” Saudi -Arabia and Gulf-States like Qatar who are sponsoring the radical Sunni-Islamists and all the other moderate beheaders.
Nobody cares about NATO-member-state Turkey who is working on the new-Ottoman-Empire.
They are flooding Europe with their middle-age ideology – and nobody cares about this!
Republicans and Democrats care more about money-makers and ignore that they are selling the rope where they one day will hang on.They ignore the fate of the West for a pocket of money.
Those states who call the Saudis,Turks and all the other Islamic States as “our friends” frightening me.Because Muslim States have an other aim with their Birth-Djihad.
I wouldn’t be astonished when “our”(?) medias talk more about the courageous hairstyle of the billionairs like Trump,Gates and Zuckerberg than the real essential problems.
Thanks to the Unz Review for making it possible to give people with different views a platform to write their view.For example in Europe you would be censored.Free speech is more and more in danger because of special laws and political correctness (= censorship).
Democracks have only two concerns amidst the dangers. And, just to be clear, they do not see the dangers. They believe the almighty power of multiculturalism is total and that there is no worry. The Kingdom of God on earth awaits the righteous, the lamb lays with the wolf, etc….
1) Destroy ‘radicalism’. (Translation:start snooping all communications/social media to take down white nationalists and the first amendment–which contributes to radicalization due to the widespread information {which non elites are not able to handle} now present on the internet).
2) Restrict guns. (Translation: destroy the second amendment so the managerial state does not run into difficulties when it tightens the totalitarian stranglehold)
What a bunch of pathetic commies. If they win American is done.
They were being radicalized by the CIA with the help of the Pakistani ISI and Saudi money as far back as the mid 70s under Carter, maybe longer.
But why would those practicing biological warfare release viruses into the midst of their allies? This part doesn’t make sense.
Yep. The rise in nationalism in Europe is almost entirely the rise of nationalist parties of the Left, like the FN.
Mind you, 30% of the vote is a very very poor result for the FN. They’ll be lucky to win two of the 13 regions.
OT, but are there Muslim private schools in America? That would be an interesting topic to explore.
Whoops, looks like I forgot to sign again.
come on pat, you and I both know as long as france is a slave of USA, doesn’t matter who gets elected. look at sarko and hollande? what changed?
hell, look at bush II and obama, what changed?
same crap every single time.
“The people who own our government, whoever they may be, are psyco killers. Left and right have nothing to do with it.”
Rubbish. Those on left and right elected these subhumans. Either that or they voted for non-interventionist libertarians and the elections were stolen.
The real takeaway from this is that the majority of the population is no better than the rulers. It’s been that way for all of H. sapiens existence.
“The people who own our government, whoever they may be, are psyco killers. Left and right have nothing to do with it.”
Rubbish. Those on left and right elected these subhumans. Either that or they voted for non-interventionist libertarians and the elections were stolen.
The real takeaway from this is that the majority of the population is no better than the rulers. It’s been that way for all of H. sapiens existence.