The continuing threat of Le Pen

I do like that it’s always someone else’s fault that the far right are on the rise. The reality is that the likes of LePen and Farage have made it acceptable again to be racist, sexist and any other ist that you care to choose. I’ve seen a few comments here suggesting (to paraphrase) that “we’ll be fine, they’ll only be after the darkies” which, apart from being abhorrent in it’s own right, is really quite naive as history shows. Once momentum builds, anyone different is fair game.

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