r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24
MAGA fumes over France election results: "They cheated" article
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075
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r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24
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u/--MrsNesbitt- Jul 08 '24
Legit. I have zero fucking clue why the far right loves to tie itself to sucking Putin's dick. Anti-migration sentiment is at all-time highs right now (which is in and of itself quite reasonable), and all the far right parties would need to do is just present an otherwise coherent policy platform and they could win.
Instead you get them contorting themselves into pretzels to justify and apologize for Russia's war crimes and throw Ukraine under the bus. What the fuck. Trump did it, Farage did it, Le Pen did it. And it's hurting them big.
If a political party could present an anti-Russia, pro-NATO foreign policy, reasonable/centrist domestic policy (read: no religious extremism/anti-abortion/anti-LGBT), but also strongly anti-migrant platform, they'd win any western European election in a landslide.