Uncontrolled mass immigration, thanks primarily to Merkel in 2015
Spoiler: Terror attacks.
I’m pretty sure terrorist attacks, teacher beheadings and importation of people who refuse to assimilate by settling in gang and crime infested ghettoes, will pivot anyone to the right.
Politico on suicide watch.
Let’s see : a litany of atrocious terrorist attacks, the beheading of Paty ( I think most people outside of France don’t realize just how that murder changed everything in the country ), a sharp rise of criminality and delinquency, a migrant population that assimilate itself less and less in french society, an increasingly assertive and revendicative form of islam, identity politics / wokeism coming from the US and wholeheartedly embraced by the french left clashing directly with our universalist model and rejected by most french people, the pandemic and the deep uncertainties and sense of vulnerability it brought.. the list goes on.
Personally, as a ( formerly ) left-leaning person myself but who completely reject identity politics, this doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for the right any time soon, but it makes at least that shift very easy to explain;
France has not pivoted to the right, its political landscape pivoted to the left faster than its electorate. Le Pen deradicalised her party pushing the traditionnal right to the left and so on. Chirac would be seen as far right in France today, remember his “noise and smell” comment. Former Socialists such as Rocard, Hollande or Jospin would be rejected by the new left. The rize of Zemmour is allowed by the void created by this shift.
The state of France started out, pretty much hard right.
The current state and leaders make Richelieu look like Martin Luther King.
But what was the starting point ? The reconstruction of the empire of Napoleon III via degaulle and repapered over Petainists.
The sad fact is, the drift to the hard right has been going on since Louis XIV hit early middle age. Minus a few hiccups during the flowering of liberalism after his death.
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*How Europe pivoted to the right
Uncontrolled mass immigration, thanks primarily to Merkel in 2015
Spoiler: Terror attacks.
I’m pretty sure terrorist attacks, teacher beheadings and importation of people who refuse to assimilate by settling in gang and crime infested ghettoes, will pivot anyone to the right.
Politico on suicide watch.
Let’s see : a litany of atrocious terrorist attacks, the beheading of Paty ( I think most people outside of France don’t realize just how that murder changed everything in the country ), a sharp rise of criminality and delinquency, a migrant population that assimilate itself less and less in french society, an increasingly assertive and revendicative form of islam, identity politics / wokeism coming from the US and wholeheartedly embraced by the french left clashing directly with our universalist model and rejected by most french people, the pandemic and the deep uncertainties and sense of vulnerability it brought.. the list goes on.
Personally, as a ( formerly ) left-leaning person myself but who completely reject identity politics, this doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for the right any time soon, but it makes at least that shift very easy to explain;
France has not pivoted to the right, its political landscape pivoted to the left faster than its electorate. Le Pen deradicalised her party pushing the traditionnal right to the left and so on. Chirac would be seen as far right in France today, remember his “noise and smell” comment. Former Socialists such as Rocard, Hollande or Jospin would be rejected by the new left. The rize of Zemmour is allowed by the void created by this shift.
The state of France started out, pretty much hard right.
The current state and leaders make Richelieu look like Martin Luther King.
But what was the starting point ? The reconstruction of the empire of Napoleon III via degaulle and repapered over Petainists.
The sad fact is, the drift to the hard right has been going on since Louis XIV hit early middle age. Minus a few hiccups during the flowering of liberalism after his death.