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Originally Posted by Theobald
That's what I think as well, and that's why I have still some hope for France. That's the first time since de Gaulle that a right-wing president is elected with such a popular support : Pompidou won because he was de Gaulle's Prime Minister, Giscard was a centrist, Chirac had no real popular support. Hell, just think of the fact that 20 million Frenchmen voted for someone who said that immigrant suburbs should be cleaned out with a Karcher, for someone whose most of the political program is taken from Le Pen's one !
Sarkozy has politically killed the Front National, but he has propagated its ideas and values among the French society far beyond the traditional nationalist area of influence. He has rehabilitated ideas of work, authority, national pride, and thus partially destroyed the "Mai 68/1981" spirit that destroyed France from the inside. He prepares the ground for a nationalist take-over.
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I hope you are right, for the sake of France.
But such personalities usually perform good theatrics but lack substance.
If he has no real plan to halt definitively immigration he is just empty rethoric, and the french have just being duped out of their only true hope, the old lion le Pen.
Because he is not Isabel of Castille but a democratic politician: so his only legal move to relieve a bit France would be stop immigration forever, while trying to vet the last generations of immigrants with legal means.