If it steps like a goose....

[steepholm]

Anyone doubting whether Trump's instincts were fascistic will I hope have had those doubts satisfied by his first week in office. Terrible as the events at the airports have been, in Pollyanna mode I'm hoping that they will have given serious second thoughts to people thinking of voting for Le Pen in France. This (and worse) is what you'd be voting for: don't say there's no way you could have known.

If Le Pen is defeated - better, humiliated - it may stop the populist right in its tracks in mainland Europe. If not - well, après elle, le déluge.

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[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I can only hope so. Still, the same thing was said of Trump: that he had to be not only defeated, but humiliated. And there remain not only the people who don't see the connection between what Trump does and what Le Pen would do (she is less bumptious than he, admittedly it would be difficult to be otherwise), but those who like it that way. I read an article describing the harsh effects of the immigration ban on individual innocents, and thought of those who would show zero sympathy to this when they noted that all those individuals are Muslims with those weird Islamic names.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm expressing a hope, not making a prediction; I've really no idea what will happen.