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France Elections: What Makes Marine Le Pen Far Right?

10-5-2017 < Attack the System 92 102 words
 
A good question. Now that France has been officially “saved from fascism” it might be interesting to consider that Marine Le Pen opposes US imperialism, supports closing the gender wage gap and abortion rights, favors the strict separation of religion and state, supports social democratic and labor protectionist economic policies, favors civic nationalism and supports Israel. Other than her law and order stance on crime, her views would have been compatible with those of the US Democratic Party of the 1970s and 1980s before the Democrats were taken over by neoliberals during the Bill Clinton More…
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