For the third time, France’s conservative leader Marine Le Pen is running for president. When she ran in 2017, media favorite and liberal candidate Emmanuel Macron painted her as an anti-immigrant Islamophobic nutjob who wanted to force France to leave the European Union and severely restrict immigration.
Although Le Pen lost in a landslide, she scared the dickens out of the French elite, who are all in on maintaining France’s membership in the EU. That Le Pen got nearly 40% of the vote was a wake-up call for the French establishment, who reassured themselves that the vast majority of Frenchmen believe in the European experiment.
