The fight against RN cannot be trivialized

IThe notabilization, the honey of which is being prepared by the National Action (RN), causes tension in the executive power. Interviewed on Wednesday, May 31 during a trip to Bratislava (Slovakia), Emmanuel Macron had to convince Elizabeth Bourne about him. “trust”, while he left an impression, the day before, in the Council of Ministers, to pay the Prime Minister about the fight against the ultra-right. On Sunday, on Radio J’s microphone, the RN was judged to be a “Heir of Pétain” Carrying a “Dangerous Ideology” of which he “Don’t trivialize ideas”. Emmanuel Macron, on the other hand, considered before the ministers that the fight against the far-right should not be held. “with moral arguments” but by “lower” and “concrete”.

Brought to the public square, while the unity of the executive couple is already being affected by social conflict over pension reform, the play goes down badly. Nevertheless, it reflects a legitimate debate that does not only concern the executive, but also agitates both the right and the left, confronting the electoral dynamics of the national rally, in a European context characterized by extreme legal progress.

The collapse of the Republican front during the 2022 legislative elections clearly marks a turning point in the struggle. What worked against Jean-Marie Le Pen, who had a knack for driving people out of the republic with a proliferation of provocations, works much less against her daughter, Marine, who has done everything to demonize the far-right party, even daring to claim it. His share of Gallistic heritage.

Send the RN back to their own alleys

One cannot ignore the loyalty of a part of the popular electorate around his project, which has a nationalist but more social character than that of his father. If Marine Le Pen collected 8 million votes in the first round of the 2022 presidential elections, and 13 million in the second, it is because some voters do not enjoy the European construct associated with the loss of sovereignty. To deny this reality is like blindness.

All the subjects that fuel national action (emigration, fraud, feelings of inferiority, loss of state effectiveness) must be on the table and address the concerns of shifting the party from the extreme right to its own. Deadlocks, the refusal to leave the euro is the most tangible manifestation of this.

Emmanuel Macron, who twice dominated Marine Le Pen in televised debates between two presidential rounds, has some legitimacy to defend his view, but Elizabeth Bourne, the daughter of a Shoah survivor, remembers the origins just as well. of RNA. The Pétanists were indeed involved in the creation of the National Front, the forerunner of the RN, and if Marine Le Pen has never said so, the ideology she defends remains dangerous: it is based on national superiority, in other words, the rejection of the foreigner who has become the scapegoat for French ills. .

As such, a national rally can never be considered a party like any other, even if the layer of varnish gets thicker and thicker. “At the same time” follower Emmanuel Macron would be well inspired on this topic to remain faithful to him: of course, the moral arguments are not enough against the RN, but they retain all relevance.