today at 3:19 p.m.
We must also not pretend to discover similarities between the FN and the classic right. During the 80s, the programs of the RPR and the FN were not that far apart, it is a return to that that we are witnessing.
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I don’t really know that though. Whether we are talking about sociological similarities, or a common racist background for some, yes. Let us talk about the formalization and legitimization, in the public discourse of an openly aggressive policy (characterized hate speech, that is) and then, the times seem to differ to me. Pasqua’s racism was self-confident, possibly paternalistic, above all contemptuous, nostalgic for the colonies and Gégène, but we kept him close to liven up the banquets (like my great-aunt to my father, in the mid-80s: “so Dédé, always stuck with the bamboolas?”). Sarkozy officially introduced racism into the legitimate state space, endorsing its free expression by passing it off as a just sentiment of the dominated. The nationalization of racism by an effectively uninhibited right is a major transformation of recent years which creates disastrous tomorrows.
