The roots of France’s ascendant racism lie as deep as the origins of the French republic itself by Yasser Louati (published on July 11, 2017).
Marine Le Pen was never really the story so much as the symptom. Ever since global terrorism set the new norm in terms of a permanent threat of bombs in public spaces, mass shootings or crowd-ploughing trucks, the politics of identity has found a new source of legitimisation in France.
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