I've been in France to see family over the past few weeks and it seems that fascist ideology has unfortunately made leaps and bounds in the country. La France Insoumise is being attacked even more harshly than usual, as the narrative of fascist groups surrounding the death of one of their members has been broadly accepted and spread by the media sphere in general, spreading the myth of left-wing violence while ignoring the very real neo-nazi violence (

Meanwhile Macronist politicians are openly making references to Vichy France, with one minister calling La France Insoumise "anti-France" (this term is deeply associated with Vichy France) and one candidate for mayor in Marseille adopting almost word-for-word Pétain's slogan of "Travail, Famille, Patrie" ("Work, Family, Fatherland"). All the while, the so-called "Republican right" and the far right are flirting with a united front "against the far left." But it seems that all that I've heard about from liberals here is about how unacceptable La France Insoumise's behaviour is and how they are violent extreme leftists (speaking of which, the government recently reclassified the movement as "far left," instead of "left" like it was until now and like even the French Communist Party still is).

Posting here because I don't feel like putting more effort in this rant and posting it in the news mega; maybe some other time