The french left has become disconnected from the blue color working class vote. Marine lepine is thought of as being on the far right, but she actually scoops up a lot of the blue color thot. With that much evident support for marine lepen, it sort of suggest that the mediun voter has kind of marched to the right. And i think what we've seen at the same time is the emergence of identity politics in france in a very strong way.
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