Ben Shapiro on France: Le Pen's “National Rally is not really a far-right party anymore”
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From the December 5, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Chaos has broken out in France. Another French government has now fallen after the National Assembly approved a no confidence vote. So — and this is not a giant shock. The French National Assembly has been split among a wide variety of parties for a while now. Emmanuel Macron's party — he's the president of France — the prime minister, his role is a lot more ceremonial than the president. The president has a longer term and has more power. But his government, meaning his workable majority in the National Assembly, Macron's, has now broken down. And that, of course, is because Macron had effectively sided against Marine Le Pen's National Rally and instead had decided to side with the actual far-left socialist led by Jean-Luc Melenchon, who's an insane person, like a total, rabid, crazy person, a Bernie Sanders-style, Jeremy Corbyn-style nut job. And so because of that, when the left turned against him in the National Assembly, he couldn't count on the right to back his play. And so now the government has fallen apart. Because it turns out that the, quote, unquote, moderate right in France, which the Macron regime was supposed to represent, would rather side with the socialists than side with the actual right in France.
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And when I say far-right, I just mean the right. National Rally is not really a far-right party anymore. There's a there — every time there's a right-wing party, it's now labeled far-right despite whatever the actual positions of the party are. This is true everywhere in Europe. OK? Anytime you have a party like Meloni's party in Italy and it wins, it's a far-right party. Geert Wilders is now far-right. Viktor Orban is far-right. The Vox Party in Spain is far-right. National Rally is far-right. UKIP, the the independent party in the UK, is far-right. Far-right just means not a sort of moderately squishily slightly right-of-center European party. Anything to the right of that is now the far-right party.