Le Pen representerer ikke det akseptable høyre. Han representerer reaksjonen, det svarte høyre, som hater USA. Denne distinksjonen kommer sjelden frem i norsk offentlighet.

Det var ingen tilfeldighet at Le Pen var god venn med Slobodan Milosevic og Saddam Hussein, eller at han kalte Holocaust og 911 for bagateller.

Nå har han igjen bevist hvor han hører hjemme ved å si at de innvandrende muslimer fra Nord-Afrika er franskmenn så gode som noen, men at han ser med større skepsis på Nikolas Sarkozy med hans ungarske røtter.

Two weeks ago, Mr. Le Pen surprised many of his former supporters by saying that the children of the Muslim North African immigrants are «as French as can be.» At the same time he denounced Mr. Sarkozy for not being French enough because he «comes from an immigrant background.» This may seem a paradox, but not to the French. Immigrants with a North African background are considered to belong to the broad French culture, while those with a Hungarian background do not. North Africa is a former French colony. Hungary, however, is a part of the «new Europe,» which the French establishment distrusts because they considered it too uncritical of America.

Kan det også ha noe å gjøre med at Sarkozy er den mest pro-amerikanske presidentkandidaten noensinne?

Mr. Sarkozy is an admirer of the United States. Pro-American Frenchmen are rare, although one of the greatest admirers of America of all times, Alexis de Tocqueville, was a Frenchman. Tocqueville noted a truth that has largely been lost in Europe but is still understood by many Americans: the fact that man’s morality is strengthened when the government is minimal. «One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows from it,» he wrote.

Ordene tilhører Paul Belien i Brusseljournal som skriver i Washington Times. Hans dom over den franske revolusjon er schocking i norske ører:

It is exactly the loss of individual strength that has been the disease of France ever since it inflicted upon itself the totalitarian revolution of 1789. The latter turned this once great nation — which produced warriors such as Charles Martel, Saint Louis and Joan of Arc — into what Tocqueville called «a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.» In France the Marxist left and the Bonapartist/Gaullist Right alike favor strong centralist, patronizing authority.

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