You know all this hate mongering is getting out of hand. The politics of hatred, racism, and intolerance it would seem is becoming contagious especially in western countries. France first and all that shit, remeniscent of donald trump, that is reminiscent of another politician who used similar arguments to come to power; ADOLF HITLER. Read your history for these people are using the same methods of this man. Watch out world; war is coming soon!
After Trump Win, Parallel Path Is Seen for Marine Le Pen of France’s Far Right
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Le Pen Hails Trump’s Victory
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s
far-right National Front party, spoke about the results of the American
presidential election on Wednesday in Nanterre, near Paris.
Publish Date November 12, 2016.
Photo by Yoan Valat/European Pressphoto Agency.
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HÉNIN-BEAUMONT,
France — It was a moment of intense French patriotism on a sunny
Friday, Armistice Day. A band blared “La Marseillaise,” the national
anthem. Shouts of “Vive la France!” filled the chilly November air. And there, too, was Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front party, beaming.
Before Donald J. Trump’s presidential victory
in the United States this week, Ms. Le Pen was considered a disruptive
political force but far from a true threat to become president herself
when France votes next spring. Not anymore.
Since
Wednesday, French news outlets, along with Ms. Le Pen’s mainstream
political rivals, have been repeating the same thing: It could happen
here.
And
Ms. Le Pen is not alone. From the Balkans to the Netherlands,
politicians on the far right have greeted the election of Mr. Trump with
unrestrained delight and as a radical reconfiguring of the political
landscape — not just in the United States, but in Europe as well.
They
are seeing it as a sign that their time has finally arrived, and that
the politics of heightened nationalism, immigrant-bashing and
anti-globalization have overturned the pro-globalization,
pro-immigration consensus.
“It
shows that when the people really want something, they can get it,” Ms.
Le Pen said in an interview on Friday in this far-right bastion, in
France’s depressed postindustrial north.
“When
the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it,
despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization,” she
said.
Far-right leaders competed in their fervor to support Mr. Trump. Those already in office, like Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary,
took the news of Mr. Trump’s victory as a vindication of their stances.
Those seeking office, like Ms. Le Pen or Geert Wilders of the
Netherlands, saw it as a hopeful sign for their own aspirations,
proclaiming that a revolutionary new order was born this week.
That
revolution, they said, has overthrown what they called the “elites” —
the mainstream news media and establishment politicians — who are in a
tacit alliance.
The
enthusiasm of the far right was in striking contrast to the coolness of
Europe’s mainstream leaders to the week’s news. Some of them, like
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, offered veiled criticism even as
they sent Mr. Trump pro forma letters of congratulation.
“It’s
the emergence of a new world,” Ms. Le Pen said, after being the first
to lay a wreath at the monument here to France’s World War I dead. “It’s
the end of the 20th century.”
Even
more ecstatic was Mr. Wilders, leader of the Dutch far-right Freedom
Party. “Congratulations! A historic victory! A revolution! We will
return our country to the Dutch,” Mr. Wilders said on Wednesday on
Twitter. He expanded on his thoughts in an op-ed for Breitbart, writing, “We are witnessing the same uprising on both sides of the Atlantic.”
Mr. Wilders, who sports his own Trumpian mane of swept blond hair, is on trial in the Netherlands
on charges of hate speech for suggesting that the country was home to
too many Moroccans. He refused to attend the trial or to disavow the
remarks.
His
party is allied with Ms. Le Pen’s National Front in the European
Parliament, and both are staunchly anti-immigration. He attended several
Trump rallies, and like Ms. Le Pen, he is seeking to be his country’s
leader.
Populist
leaders, not necessarily of the far right, who have mounted insurgent
challenges to longstanding political orders were similarly buoyed by Mr.
Trump’s victory, like Beppe Grillo, the leader of the Five Star
Movement in Italy.
“They
called us sexists, homophobes, demagogues and populists,” Mr. Grillo
wrote in a blog post. “They don’t realize that millions of people
already no longer read their newspapers and no longer watch their
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