Jean-Marie Le Pen styles himself as French patriot who does not fit the conventional political spectrum. He says that he is socially on the Left and economically on the Right, but in American terms he is dyslexic. After all, Le Pen opposes abortion and homosexual u201Cmarriage,u201D but is protectionist in his economics. By our standards he is socially u201CRightu201D and economically u201CLeft.u201D Le Pen’s success in the first round of this year’s French presidential election has set a number of pundits chattering about the decline of the Left-Right spectrum. Alain de Benoist, writing in the German conservative weekly newspaper Junge … Continue reading Left, Right, and Le Pen