IFive years ago, this researcher at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Montpellier, a specialist in militant radicalism and the extreme right in Europe and particularly in France, published a Letter to the French who believe that five years of the far right would put France back on its feet (The Escaped). He was speaking to a cashier, a Catholic policeman, a teacher, an agricultural worker… A dozen RN voters with whom he fictitiously dialogued to discuss their arguments. Five years later, he notes that the panel of voters does not seem to have widened, but that the strategy has evolved and started to bear fruit.
Point : How do you analyze the progress of Marine Le Pen, who won 500,000 votes in the first round of 2017?
Nicholas Lebour…