Victorious Macron vows to unite France after fending off Le Pen threat
-The Guardian, Apr. 24, 2022
Phew! Glad that's decided in Macron's favor. A Le Pen administration could have become dark and frightening quickly. The lesser of two evils, the center right guy Macron is easily much, much more desirable than the sinister far right Le Pen.
Le Pen, like her father before her, is simply not on the side of good and is highly xenophobic, racist, fascist and authoritarian. Every little bit of holding the line against the populist far right wave around the globe is important!
Beware of the hateful and extremist nationalistic parties with names including words like "front" and "first" as they're routinely racist, violence-favoring groups of thugs and bullies riling up crowds by pushing the classic theme of blaming and expelling foreigners for all the ills they allegedly bring to white lives. Whites aren't responsible for their woes, you see. It's dark-skinned people and immigrants! Sound familiar?
It's a successful strategy to ride populist waves of fear and hate into office. You'll definitely find it in allegedly modern America, France, England, Australia and on almost every other continent in great numbers. Racism adjacent firestorms are intentionally created when those candidates and their parties revive what had been declining mainstream bigotry to foment anger and violence against things that make constituent idiots uneasy like LGBTQA equalities and rights, e.g. transgender identity and acknowledgment of same sex couples. Just as with racial matters, if these sexual culture wars result in violence and death, the far right is quite content (but takes no responsibility).
Give gullible people endorphine bursts by making them fearful, upset and angry constantly and you can control them, make them believe your lies and give away their own rights.
How did Le Pen get so far? I described the hate and fear tactics above but the other part of that answer is the press. Le Pen, in a pattern you just might recognize, constantly shared her bitterness and disdain for the press/media. However, what did the press do? They still desperately and mindlessly shoveled up all her crap and spread it far and wide enough to nearly put her into office. Again, that should sound familiar.
I seriously doubt this is the end of Marie Le Pen at all. Some people's hate and fear never go away as long as there's someone there to stoke it and there are ways to spread it about like contagion.