“Globalization, not migration, has to be blamed for France’s loss of jobs”

Around twelve thousand people crowded the first rally of the French far-right presidential candidate Zemmour in Paris. His enthusiastic supporters feel upset about how what they call traditional values have been lost due to Muslims and the far-left. French culture is under attack, they claim, the “most beautiful country in the world” must be saved. Followers of certain fundamentalist nationalism find in Zemmour their perfect ideologist. His discourse is full of historic revisionism, such as his defense of the Vichy regime as a protector of French Jews in World War II. But his allegations are not only limited to offering a new version of French history. He blames migrants for Continue Reading →