'Le Pen-ism' and the new normal

"In 1984, Jean-Marie Le Pen said something that heralded what is happening today. He spoke of the 'Le Pen-ization' of conscience," French-Algerian writer Karim Amellal told Skai TV's "Istories" program on Tuesday while describing precisely how things came to be.

In Sunday's runoff vote, it is most likely that Marine Le Pen will lose, if the polls can be relied on. But what is this loss when it seems that she will get about 40 percent of the vote?

For a while now we have seen the gradual weakening of rational perceptions of images.

In the cases of Donald Trump and Le Pen, we see that neither buffoonery nor cruelty have any effect on their voters and supporters. Either because this image is blamed on the "systemic" media or because a large part of the population just shrugs it all off.

A look at the internet shows how distorted information is, how people are...

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