Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
You can't compare Trump to Le Pen - Trump is not only president with serious executive clout, his party fractious as they maybe control both houses of the legislature, Le Pen will at best have 5 or 6 MPs out of hundreds. If she does deals with the centre right to get stuff through she will have to take on many of the people who voted for her - if she does then she may lose and will certainly discredit her own movement in the process.I've probably misunderstood. Because I cannot for the life of me see 'too much common sense' for me in that post. I just see a bunch of statements that seem pretty obviously true. Of course the left is failing and of course people feel alienated by the system. I've felt alienated by the system all my adult life - there's some kind of assumption here that somehow certain posters live in some cosy bubble. I wish I did. I do not.
What I do see is complacency about the prospect of a fascist becoming French president. She'll be a weak leader? Will she? Is Trump a weak leader so far? I think this is dangerous complacency, and I was guilty of some of it towards Trump as well, I admit it. I don't intend to repeat that towards le Pen. And none of that is saying that you are urging people to vote for a Thatcherite cunt, or somehow endorsing him. That misses the point, as the very valid criticisms of Hillary Clinton missed the point if they then tilted towards saying either 'let's try Trump' or 'fuck it, let Trump in, they're all as rotten as each other'.
This is about keeping out le Pen. And I repeat that I think it is dangerous complacency to underestimate the consequences of a le Pen victory. 'Fillon is also racist'? Certainly. As was Thatcher. But there is a difference, and I think it is naive or disingenuous to pretend that there isn't.
None of this represents a turn to the FN but a look at the reality on the ground - vote for a vile racist smasher of the unions and the welfare state to stop a vile racist.
No thanks I'm not voting for a vile racist full stop