Zemmour's speech

[Klaus]

Eric Zemmour is a candidate for the upcoming election in France.

I personally am not a big fan - too populist and too autocratic for my taste - but he is quickly becoming a real force to be reckoned with. He is already polling second behind Macron.

I must say that, from a populist perspective, his speech in which he announces his candidacy is pretty well done. I guess it also resonates with what many conservatives in the US are feeling.

It's also quite sad and telling that YT flagged the speech as "age-restricted".

It has English subtitles.

Link to video

I thought that the title of the party - reconquête - is a pretty clever choice.

Oh, and one thing I enjoyed: Despite all the talk about the great French history and culture, he chose a Beethoven symphony as background music

[jon-nyc]

Read it when it came out. It resonates with a lot of French.

[Copper]

@klaus said in Zemmour's speech:

I guess it also resonates with what many conservatives in the US are feeling.

Yes

I think that is exactly the message needed to get elected here.