“A survey for French television found that almost six out of 10 people thought those living in France without permission should be put in administrative detention.”
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Le Pen consistently received her best scores [in la France périphérique small towns, rural municipalities and declining former industrial belts, the ‘France of the Gilets Jaunes’], precisely because she offered a discourse that resonated with the demands for security and protection found in parts of France that have most suffered from the consequences of market-led globalization. Having accepted the mantra of There Is No Alternative, the forces of ‘progressive neoliberalism’ have been signally unable to speak to these demands, instead viewing them as obstacles to modernization. This laid the terrain for the Front National to frame them in nationalist-xenophobic terms, and present itself as the ‘voice of the people’.
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