re: #16 scottslemmons

The French are already incredibly racist and won’t need much of a push to jump into fascism.

No they’re not and no they won’t.

The French are somewhat racist, and there is no conceivable way that Marine Le Pen will ever be elected.

France has a two round electoral system, the biggest winners of the first round go onto a second round. Marine can pick up up to 6-7 million votes in the first round but she needs another 7-8 million to win the second round. There is no available reservoir of votes for her — If she is in the second round it’s against a candidate from the “republican” right and there is no way Marine would pick up enough votes from the left.