Opinion | Don’t Assume Marine Le Pen Can Save France

Oct 22, 2026 - 13:53
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Opinion | Don’t Assume Marine Le Pen Can Save France
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By: The Wall Street Journal.

Yes, recent rioting has exposed economic and social rot at the heart of France. And yes, this probably improves the already strong odds that Marine Le Pen of the insurgent-right National Rally will win next spring’s presidential election. And then?

As the violence in the streets calms, thoughts inevitably turn to what will come next. The relatively optimistic case, which I would like to believe, is an application of Stein’s Law: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” France’s low-growth, high-tax economy and high-immigration, low-assimilation social policies obviously can’t go on forever. Ergo . . .

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