"We needed to put out a racist law otherwise next year we'll lose to a racist party".
Well, this is *exactly* how progressive parties lose to fascists.
When a far-right party loses its ground, do you ever hear its leaders says "maybe we need to be a bit more tolerant/liberal/open to diversity"? Absolutely not! They'll just throw a few more scapegoats in the mix, blame somebody else for being unpatriotic, poison the political discourse even more, and push themselves even more on the extremes.
You know how many times a progressive leader gained consensus for mimicking the far-right? ZERO! If people really want to vote for a fascist then they prefer the real one, not an imitation!
Macron has run out of steam and ideas, and if all he can do is to mimic Le Pen, deny welfare measures to migrants, harass foreign students or deny French citizenship to people who were born in France, then he'd better be gone sooner rather than later.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/20/france-immigration-bill-passed-controversy-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen
Fabio Manganiello /
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