Marine Le Pen is finding support in rural France by following Donald Trump's playbook
altogether, an event that could well shatter the bloc, and remake the Western alliance.
French far-right Rassemblement National party Member of Parliament and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen shakes hands with a member of the public during a campaign visit to Saint-Remy-sur-Avre, northwestern France, on April 16.and their money,” echoes the nationalism of Trump’s “America first” and the Brexit slogan “take back control”, which helped drive those campaigns to victory.
In the village of Beaucamps-le-Vieux, it’s clear why Le Pen has been able to make inroads. The village and its environs were previously a manufacturing center, with factories making metal chairs, as well as a long-time textile industry, until almost all the plants steadily shut or moved their production, some of it to China, beginning in the 1980s; unemployment in the community is about 21%,“I worked from the age of 15, in three different textile factories,” says Henault.
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