In The anti-fascist “theater”, his column published on April 15, the columnist Christian Rioux supports the thesis, popular on the right of the right, and moreover defended by Le Pen herself, according to which the National Rally is only an ordinary populist party, nationalist, sovereignist, representative of a popular desire to do battle with the elite. According to him, as Mathieu Bock-Côté also likes to repeat, the far right is only a “ghostly” category forged to insult people like him. It would only be “anti-fascist theatre”. No more, no less.
That Le Pen, with her desire to inscribe national preference in the Constitution, with her plebiscitary whims, which recall the fascist legal theories of the 1920s and 1930s, that Marine Le Pen proposes to undermine the entire constitutional edifice of the republic , this, obviously, does not upset Christian Rioux. It’s amazing. Wasn’t the republic what had to be saved so much when it came to combating veiled women?
Response from Christian Rioux
You have to be far from reality to imagine that a coup d’etat by the “extreme right” is preparing in France! From Perpignan to Arras, via Reims, there is no trace of a single party, ethnic violence, militias and the cult of the leader that characterize fascist movements. Instead, banal debates on purchasing power, pensions, security and immigration. The one and only violence in this campaign came from 400 students who ransacked the Sorbonne. Need I specify that they were not from the “extreme right”? Since when does modifying the constitution of a country by referendum, as de Gaulle did in 1962, come under fascism? At the time also a certain left called him a fascist. Always the same ideological shackles that prevent us from seeing reality.
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