did the popular front do a ton of work?
ABSOLUTELY. they organized out the ass
but what was achieved was not the defeat of fascism, but a deadlock of parliament
i don't blame people in the us for not understanding french politics
however
yesterday's election was not the "left victory" that it's being paraded as
the nazi party (not hyperbole) doubled their number of representative seats
the "centrist party" will be joining the alliance of the far right
true and i agree
what we have seen repeated is the complacency that immediately goes into effect
and the marginalized and targeted are once again shouted over and ignored
its brunch time baby!
That's a common problem, people not familiar with the nature of conflict are used to the idea of one victory and one victory only, it's how fiction goes.
In reality, it takes victory after victory.
Whenever I think of this stuff a line from a game I played as a kid comes to mind
"Setback after setback. Loss after loss.", describing how being defeated is a slow and disheartening process.
The centrist party is not going to join an alliance of the far right. No way in hell. They might refuse to form a majority government but there’s not gonna be an RN governing coalition.
Seriously that’s asinine- what part of “let’s engage in unprecedented coordination with the left to out maneuver the fascists” makes you think the next step is “let’s make a coalition government with the fascists”
If they hadn’t done all this maneuvering I would totally not put it past his ass to but it seems like it would be utterly pointless to do after all this
