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"‘You must realise,’ he tells me, ‘that my victory was won by someone who does not have one hundredth of the means at the disposal of my adversaries. I would be 10 per cent ahead of them if I did. But nothing is lost,’ he says, referring to the second round on 5 May. ‘I have a 10 per cent chance of winning. The gaggle of media sycophants’ — whenever he insults anyone, which is often, each rude word is savoured slowly in a crescendo — ‘which, by the way, is totally dominated by Marxists and which is a nauseating world I hold in utter contempt, immediately rushed to support Chirac. It means that Chirac has now been formally crowned as the uncontested leader of the French Left. The Communist party, the Trotskyites, the Socialists, the Freemasons, the Unions — they have all acclaimed him as the godfather of their Mafia. But I am the candidate of France — against euro-globalisation!

.... emphasis mine.

", ‘A vision of France as it used to be’, and this is the point: Le Pen is a man gripped by an apocalyptic vision of France’s national, political, social and moral decline but through whose deep pessimism there constantly erupts a desire to laugh, and a sharp urge to provoke or even to shock. The various attempts on his life have done nothing to deter him. ‘It’s not me who has become extreme Right,’ he says. ‘It’s the whole of society which has become extreme Left. They put me in jackboots and a helmet and say I am Hitler. But they have been doing that for 50 years now. That’s the only way they can try to get me because I haven’t had my hands in the till."

Based only on this article ... I like this guy. About time for a turn around there.

You're in lonely company. The socialists, of course, declare him a fascist as they busily draft plans for state regulation of private production. The neo-cons (who really are fascists) hate him because he loves his own country above all others and can credibly discuss history and combat. Anyone (Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul et al.) who presents the possibility of principled opposition from the Right to global hegemony is suspect.