The Right and the Extremists

Alex Harrowell, A Fistful of Euros writes on the upcoming French elections, and – of course – on [Jean-Marie Le Pen]:

A few years ago, it was fashionable for the same liberal-hawk types to worry about the rise of the same politicians on the grounds that they were dangerous anti-semitic swine. Now, we are asked to believe that everyone else is anti-semitic, traitorous, etc and that they are heroic strugglers for Western civilisation. Which happens to be what they think themselves to be. Whether it is wise to take quasi-fascists at their own self-evaluation is left as an exercise to the reader.

Worth checking out in this connection: Jean-Marie Le Pen and the National Front, Jewish Anti-Defamation League