French PM Bayrou sparks outrage with far-right rhetoric on migrant ‘flood’

[solo@slrpnk.net]

Prime Minister François Bayrou sparked outrage from the opposition, and indignation from his allies, when he referred to a feeling taking root in France of being “flooded” by immigration. The prime minister was accused of citing the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory that has fuelled the far right for decades.

[zloubida@lemmy.world]

As always, Centrism gives Fascism a leg up.

[skhayfa@lemmy.world]

He struggles to sell a coherent economic program so the easy way to stop asking questions about the economy is to deflect using outrageous cultural wars debates

[gaael@lemmy.world]

Nothing new in France, Macron has been doing it since 2017. As someone smarter than me once wrote:

the trouble with centrists is that they're neither left-wing nor left-wing

[commandercloon@lemmy.ml]

I would argue that the entirety of post-90s french politics is an accelerating drift towards fascistic centrism

[gaael@lemmy.world]

I would not argue, I mainly agree with you minor a few exceptions.