Another example of how the right wing is definitely the ones who can be trusted to root out corruption. After all nobody’s more acquainted with it than they are!

I’ll just post here what I did on the news mega

Yeah ok let’s see how this goes, I’ve been waiting for someone to try to just outright strip one of these far right hyper-leaders of political rights to see if it actually works. Obviously since she was leading in the polls and people who already like her will see this, probably correctly since IIRC she’s just charged with embezzling some money from the party’s european MPs (so shit that no one cares about basically), as political persecution the logical move would be to appoint a successor and have them run on how Le Pen was unjustly persecuted along with everything else she would run on, kinda like what trump did (except he slipped away from consequences). France seems like the worst case to try this though since she was so high up in the polls, if I were to guess I’d say a half charismatic successor backed by her could easily win in 2027, heck said successor could even try to do to her what she did to her father, that is present themselves as more moderate than before.

Better not take this as an easy victory imho, especially since that’s what happened back when the left coalition “won” the elections a while back.

I think in the case of portugal if this had been done to our local far-right hyper-leader from 2019-2021 it would’ve probably stamped out the parliamentary far right for a few years, and since the constitution legally prohibits “fascist” parties it should’ve been done (not that I think the far right here is actually fascist in the 20th century sense but there was a legal political argument to lawfare it away when it was less popular), nowadays though the brand “Chega” is probably strong enough to net it quite a lot of seats even if its leader goes away.

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Surprised Yanis has this opinion

https://bsky.app/profile/yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social/post/3llosksdhxk2h

Varoufakis stressed that “I think Le Pen is a fascist, personally. I’d like to see her be destroyed politically.” At the same time, in his view, lawfare “has been disproportionately waged against the outer Right, because the Left has disappeared”. The Greek politician compared Le Pen’s treatment to the means used by the Democratic Party against Donald Trump, only “the French are doing it in a more obvious, less defensible way than the American Democrats.”

Lol @ destroying her politically, as if that would ever work.

He also took away the wrong lesson for how the Dems treated Trump, as if they were too hard on him. LePen’s treatement is actually quite the opposite of the way the Dems treated Trump. Does he really think if the Dems attacked Trump less that they could’ve won? Usually his analysis is pretty decent, but I struggle to see his logic here.

i like receiving good news in the morning

Wasn’t her job really just to be a bogeyman to get Macron elected over Melenchon? Like a good ole American political strategy to make left leaning candidates “unelectable”? Sounds like they just sent her out to pasture