| RolStoppable said: Le Pen is comfortably right wing on a social level. A graph based on economics doesn't change that, and it won't make people who identify as left vote for Le Pen. |
It will. Leftist citizens are not necessarily liberal and leftism doesn't have to be liberal. Even if you take out the most infamous examples (fascism and nazism) then there are still the likes of communism, in which the state controls the economy and society.
Seeing this election, I couldn't help but notice that FN and EM policies were the opposite of each other. Le Pen was a leftist whenever it came down to economic issues and right wing otherwise. Macron was a right wing economist but supported extending over protective legislation to even more minorities and bolstering the rights of anyone living in the country. His message is the standard GWB Neocon approach of "if we fuck up their country, they can come here" whereas Le Pen ran on a "let's not make things worse and mind our own business".
Naturally, Le Pen had the party's name and her own family to drag her down. Even then, her platform is a very odd one and even now associated with Nazism due to leftist traditionalists leaping into the authoritarian left part of politics, whose closest historical counterparts where none other than Mussolini, Verwoerd and Stalin, and thus have derided these people as nazis even though these spectrums are humongous. Little do they know some countries like Chile have already chosen these kinds of candidates and they have been damn good (who remembers Eduardo Frei? Or perhaps I need to bring up Trudeau Sr...
