Melodramatic feuds are integral to “fake news” politics, and few are more unconvincing than the venom between Marine Le Pen, the wannabe French President, and her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Their staged schism is crucial to project Front National, the attempt by a notoriously racist and anti-Semitic far-right party to deliver Frances next head of state.
The deceit is that Ms Le Pen has grown out of her fathers bigotry and, since taking over the FN in 2011, has exorcised its demons. This process has included expelling papa from the party for re-iterating his description of the Holocaust as a mere detail of history, defending the collaborationist World War II Vichy regime, and making a lot of other ghoulish statements. She i…
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