Le Baron
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If you've been following the thrust of French politics over the last few months you'll have heard of Eric Zemmour. Yet another 'straight-talking radical demagogue' and hero of the underdog with all the wrong solutions. He motivates the same people as Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet in the Netherlands.
However the hullabaloo around all this is always handy for neo-liberals...
It's interesting that Macron has chosen Zemmour as his official 'adversary' in this race. You can see he's shaping the presidential race as between himself and the threat of the 'dangerously radical far-right'. What better than that to make him look like the voice of reason and set the parameters of the debate.
Also yesterday Valérie Pécresse was named as an official candidate. She is the actual challenge to Macron because she's the newer model; which is why he wants the other battle. Pécresse is another stupid neoliberal promising to 'cut public spending and taxes' and raise the retirement age and all the other tired tropes..pulling France into a position the neoliberals have ached to go for decades. Since a goodly portion of the French public are just as easily-fooled as all other countries on these issues, and also carried away by the idea of a female leader, it means France lurching ever more rightward, but under the disguise of 'balanced centrism'.
However the hullabaloo around all this is always handy for neo-liberals...
It's interesting that Macron has chosen Zemmour as his official 'adversary' in this race. You can see he's shaping the presidential race as between himself and the threat of the 'dangerously radical far-right'. What better than that to make him look like the voice of reason and set the parameters of the debate.
Also yesterday Valérie Pécresse was named as an official candidate. She is the actual challenge to Macron because she's the newer model; which is why he wants the other battle. Pécresse is another stupid neoliberal promising to 'cut public spending and taxes' and raise the retirement age and all the other tired tropes..pulling France into a position the neoliberals have ached to go for decades. Since a goodly portion of the French public are just as easily-fooled as all other countries on these issues, and also carried away by the idea of a female leader, it means France lurching ever more rightward, but under the disguise of 'balanced centrism'.