Paul Krugman: How France Has Come to the Brink of Electing a Fascist | Alternet
Compared to the United States, France offers a robust social safety net,
replete with quality health care for all, ample paid leave for new
parents and universal pre-K among other essential benefits. Adults 25-54
are significantly more likely to find gainful employment than an
American of the same age. It may not be a model social democracy like
those found in Scandinavia, but French government has, for the most
part, held up its end of the social contract with its citizenry. Why
then did more than 21 percent of the country vote to elect as president
Marine Le Pen, a right-wing extremist who has called for the mass closure of French mosques and named a Holocaust denier as her successor to lead the National Front?
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