Yes. Same as usual from my limited perspective. I believe that there is indeed a xenophobic/islamophobic/racist backlash at play in the far-right's W.
But that there are also economic grievances that people attribute partly to the EU, like what happened with the Brexit. Inflation doesn't help.
Imo, Macron and his camp bear responsibility for the role of both factors since they never stopped trying to appeal to the far-right on cultural issues and their brand of neoliberalism is fueling the suffering of the masses. It's reaping what you sow.
Biden is seemingly following a similar playbook with his handling of the border situation. What they don't seem to understand is that they're only giving legitimacy to the right wing and hurting theirs.
This. They let the situation deteriorate with uncontrolled and illegal immigration, weaker purchasing power, rising cost of life, expensive housing prices, inflation, unemployment, heartless neoliberalism…etc, and they wonder why the far right gains in popularity.
They are playing into their hands and making it easy for them.
But no way the far right would be this popular without pro-right wing/far right media sources . What the French equivalent of Fox News/right wing/far right media in France?
I also feel like the two biggest far right political parties in France, the « rassemblement national, the RN» and « reconquête » parties are controlled opposition. I just learned that Éric Zemmour, the leader of reconquête is actually pure Jewish Algerian by blood and culture . And Jordan Bardella, the main figure of the rassemblement national with Marine Le Pen, has mostly Italian and Algerian ancestry and very little actual French ancestry. I mean actual ethnic nationalist/racist parties would never allow ethnically mixed people and foreigners to lead them.
en.m.wikipedia.org
en.m.wikipedia.org