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I can't stand the way liberal outlets dance around calling fascists what they are, as though Le Pen and her party didn't have well documented, long-standing, close connections with rather explicit and often violent fascist groups ("identitarians," GUD, les Zouaves, among others).
Nonetheless, the dynamics here are worth noting, so I'm begrudgingly posting it anyway.
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While Le Pen is a scourge of liberal elites, who has courted the working class, Bardella is now wooing conservative business leaders who have historically been wary of Le Pen’s National Rally. While the earthy Le Pen is strong in the disillusioned, former industrial towns of the northeast, the polished Bardella is targeting the wealthier south.
The National Rally’s old guard may not feel entirely at ease with Bardella’s more economically liberal approach but it understands the electoral arithmetic. Winning the presidency means winning more than half the vote, and that will mean poaching voters from the center-right Les Républicains. For that task, Bardella is the man.
Of course, for now, Bardella follows Le Pen’s orders — and she coordinates his forays into new voter bases — but she is also far from blind to his increasingly rapid ascent.
The party’s top brass is treading on eggshells as a new reality emerges. Le Pen’s candidacy is up in the air until the appeal for her conviction, most probably in the summer of 2026, and in the meantime pollsters are revealing Bardella is just as credible as a presidential candidate. Officially, the party is pretending it’s business as usual, but it’s not.
The unease about which way the party is going — and who will be the front-runner for the Elysée — is now palpable.
#NationalRally #LePen #Bardella #France #fascism #GUD #Zouaves #identitarian
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#Project2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.
#Trump, #Vance and the #hateful horizons of “#TradFuturism.”
by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz July 31, 2024
Published in #InTheseTimesExcerpt: "When news came several weeks ago that Trump had chosen Ohio Sen. #JDVance as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election, my X (formerly Twitter) feed was abuzz with commentary about the selection. Out of the various comments, criticism and praise heaped upon the Hillbilly Elegy author and onetime '#NeverTrumper' was the assessment of #DarrellScott, pastor of a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, church ministry and one of Trump’s former spiritual advisors.
" 'JD Vance is not only the pick for today, but also for the future,' Scott proclaimed. 'He will be the presumptive nominee for President in 2028, and will keep the #MAGA movement going, retaining Trump as an advisor/consigleri [sic]. Rubio, Haley, Burgum, Carson, etc wouldn’t.'
"Scott’s emphasis on MAGA’s future vitality caught my eye as a prime example of a phenomenon I call trad futurism, with the Trump campaign’s selection of Vance serving as part of a world-building project aimed at creating a future for the United States that is not founded on the principles of democracy and freedom but rather on #Identitarian politics and the policing of people and bodies that don’t conform to so-called #TraditionalValues.
Trad futurism is a moral project that unites ideologically disparate #RightWing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive democracy."What is trad futurism? Trad is shorthand for #traditionalist / #traditionalism. Recently, there has been broad discussion of far-right groups like 'trad wives' on TikTok or '#RadTrad' young Catholics. Trad futurism is part of that conversation, but it’s not just about a return to the simple life or a Latin Mass. Rather it’s a moral project that unites ideologically disparate right-wing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive #democracy.
"Right-wing writer #RodDreher’s 2017 book #TheBenedictOption, which urged Christians to withdraw from a corrupted world into cloistered purist communities of the faithful, is one type of trad future: small and local. But some trad futurist projects are far more expansive, aimed at creating a '#moral' future for America, in which laws and social policies reflect the 'traditional values' of conservative Christianity. Throughout the United States, various groups of traditionalists are doing their part to build that world.
"#ChristianNationalists position their values as American values. Institutions, including the massive #Heritage Foundation and countless otherconservative lobbying groups, are courting right-wing leaders and crafting manifestos for their ideal vision of the country’s future."
Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/project-2025-trump-vance-traditionalist-republican#USPol #Gilead #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism