| Illusion said: The left will assume that these results mean that this is a return to the old normal, but they will be wrong. There is no way somebody Le Pen would have gotten anywhere near 34% of the vote in a socialist country like France even just 2 years ago. The left should be listening very closely to the warnings of people like Le Pen and start moderating their policies, but instead Macron's victory will embolden Europe's leadership to go back to a "business as usual" attitude and work even harder to label dissenting views as "hate speech." This will backfire badly: Brexit and Trump are just the canaries in the coal mine for what is to come in the next 3 - 4 years, the left should pay close attention to the concerns of these people, writing them all off as nazi's and radicals will be their undoing. |
Sadly, you may be right. Extreme right politicians will keep telling people what they want to hear, and a lot of people will be egoïstic and dumb enough to vote for them.
But that doesn't mean that other parties have to do the same. They have to do what's actually good, instead of doing things of which the people think they're good.
