An important development in French politics is the presidential candidacy of Éric Zemmour, a Jewish conservative media figure. Zemmour is heavily promoted by state-sponsored liberal media arguing for conservatism and patriotism. Zemmour is employed by RTL radio and newspaper Le Figaro. His book on conservatism ~ with a little help from his friends is No 1 on the Amazon best-seller list.

A Daily Mail article (September 27) shows why the establishment would fear Le Pen in the April 2022 election and use Zemmour as a way to derail her candidacy. Macron’s popularity is slipping.

Marine le Pen’s Front National ranks ahead of any other party in France among the 25-34 age group, who face unemployment and soaring costs of student loans. Many of the younger age groups had already turned against Macron in the Yellow Vest protests of 2018, the pandemic only hardening their positions.

Marine Le Pen recently called the health pass ‘a disproportionate interference with liberty’ and promised that she would be a ‘president of French liberties.’  What is obvious is that France has a Presidential election next year, and it would be extremely awkward for the governing elites if someone like Marine Le Pen won.

Le Pen has been further inroads both to Leftist and Centrist voters. For years now she has narrowed the gap to just 6 points. Polls grossly under-count populist Right figures, so the gap may be much narrower or even inverted.

So, from this, we see that the macro-data was all pointing to Le Pen having a much better chance of beating Macron in 2022. Now, suddenly we are hearing from manipulated media about this ‘new’ nationalist meteor, Éric Zemmour.

This race had long seemed on course for a rematch between President Emmanuel Macron and nationalist anti-globalist Marine Le Pen. But it’s Le Pen who’s now facing a major threat on her right flank. Éric Zemmour is second in the latest Harris Interactive poll as the top two finishers will enter a runoff. Never before has a candidate jumped so quickly in the polls, pollster Antoine Gautier told AFP.

Zemmour is a media backed communicator who strikes a chord with unsophisticated French voters. There are three reasonable possibilities of what will happen with Zemmour, all of them negative for the populist Right:

He crashes, whereupon his lack of support is attributed to ‘anti-Semitism’ and used to smear Le Pen as a ‘Nazi’, scaring some voters to cling to Macron.

He does well, whereupon Le Pen’s bloc is split down the middle or he does well enough to face off against Macron in the final round – and somehow manages to lose.

What we are seeing here is the central principle around which Western politics is built: managed democracy in a scam that the duped electorate are unaware of in this case the odds are against Marine Le Pen becoming President. Source