{"id":81721,"date":"2015-12-09T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81721"},"modified":"2015-12-09T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:57:11","slug":"will-france-vote-for-the-national-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81721","title":{"rendered":"Will France Vote For The National Front?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/marine_le_pen_or_tashfeen_malik_steve_sailer#.VmfyrKktUVE.twitter\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: French history is currently speeding up, which ought to be of intense interest to American Republicans pondering whom to nominate in 2016. While many Americans enjoy engaging in lowbrow derision of France, the French traditionally value displays of intelligence, and thus are often the first to work out the logic of events. If the 21st-century French are beginning to figure out that the conceptions of left and right (which they invented in the late 18th century) are becoming less critical in a new century when the fundamental issue is whether the West will allow itself to be swamped by the Rest, Republicans ought to pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>The most important novel of 2015, Michel Houellebecq\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/submission_statement_steve_sailer\/print#axzz3tj82EAHI\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Submission<\/em><\/a>, a tale of the 2022 French election, provides English speakers with a convenient literary lens upon the central question in France: Will the French ruling class accede to the demographic replacement of the French nation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/the-graph-that-explains-the-2015-migrant-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\">overflowing populations<\/a> of the Middle East and Africa?<\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/strong_mutually_antagonistic_governments_everywhere_steve_sailer#axzz3titVT6Ch\" target=\"_blank\">global electoral trend<\/a> toward the <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/america_and_france_turn_right_patrick_buchanan\/print#ixzz3tijt2ZT2\" target=\"_blank\">right<\/a>, in the initial round of the French regional elections on Sunday, Marine Le Pen\u2019s National Front came in first with 28 percent of the vote nationally. 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